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AFTRA members approve contract
The three-year deal passes with a 62% vote of the membership, leaving SAG out there alone. "It's hard to not see this as a setback [for SAG] because they invested so much in this and drew a line in the sand," said David Smith, a labor economist at Pepperdine University. "It's probably going to limit their ability to negotiate for what they want." LAT, AP, Variety
Congestion pricing may switch to Harbor Freeway
Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa has proposed shifting the test toll lanes to the 110 freeway from the 210. LAT, SGVT
Mayor Caruso's Los Angeles
Former "Tonight Show" writer Brad Dickson imagines developer Rick Caruso's city of Cheesecake Factories instead of schools, streetcars to nowhere and streaming Sinatra tunes 24/7. LAT Op-Ed
Nuñez aide got $100,000 for 'campaign consulting'
Former Assembly Speaker Fabian Nuñez gave the money to his chief of staff, Daniel Eaton, from a ballot measure fundraising committee. LAT
Interview with LAPD chief of detectives
Deputy Chief Charles Beck, head of LAPD’s Detective Bureau, defends the tactics used in the Martha Puebla case, talks about officers who cheat and says when he worked undercover he had evidence planted on him by LAPD cops. Witness LA
Also: Judge leans in favor of LAPD finances disclosure. LAT
Dean Logan gets county Registrar-Recorder job
The Board of Supervisors voted unanimously to move him from interim to the formal replacement for Conny McCormack, who retired in January. DN
When Los Angeles was a boxing town
Inspired by the deaths of Art Aragon and Mando Ramos, Tim Rutten remembers when boxing was pretty big here. LAT Op-Ed
Interview with Gustavo Arellano
The OC Weekly journalist talks about his "¡Ask a Mexican!"column and book with Carolyn Kellogg at Jacket Copy, where a commenter observes, "well he still *hasn't* answered my question of how rice wound up in my burrito." Jacket Copy
Emily Gould gets a book
The former Gawker editor who wrote a revealing but widely panned New York Times Magazine cover story about her life online has sold "And the Heart Says...'Whatever' to Free Press, which calls it "an honest, searching and wry set of recollections that together weave a picture of what it's like to be a young person in New York City in the early 2000s." For publication in 2010. Publishers Lunch
More internal bickering at KPFK
On-air host Ian Masters appears to be at the center of it. LA Indy Media
Daily Bruin reporter wins prize
Robert Faturechi, now at the Seattle Times, won an award from the Institute on Political Journalism for "a piece on the influences of donations on college admission decisions. This award recognizes excellence in collegiate reporting in which the student's work demonstrates an understanding of the basic ideas that support a free society, including freedom of the press and freedom of speech." Release
Robert Lobdell, former L.A. Times general counsel was 82
He was known as a strong defender of journalists doing their jobs. He was the father of Times reporter William Lobdell. LAT