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Quite a bit, according to the LA Weekly. Start with the Neon Tommy story's claim that the Weekly had just six full time editorial staffers:
It left out music editor Randall Roberts, web editor Erin Broadley, food blog editor Amy Scattergood, and copy editors Karre Jacobs and Mel Yiasemide. Editorial creative director Darrick Rainey, assistant art director Jason Jones and designer Mitch Handsone were also left out of the editorial head count. There are seven full-time print and web staff writers: Gendy Alimurung, Patrick Range McDonald, Libby Molyneaux, Christine Pelisek, Scott Foundas and Liz Ohanesian, who is also the online editorial assistant. On the part-time/regular-freelance tip there's critic at large Steven Leigh Morris, assistant listings editors Siran Babayan, Falling James and Derek Thomas, as well as columnists Nikki Finke, Jonathan Gold and Lina Lecaro. Neon Tommy also said the news blogger is an editor. We can assure you, he is not.
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*And Neon Tommy responds, via email:
We want to acknowledge that more than six people work in the editorial department of the L.A. Weekly and regret any suggestion to the contrary. Let it be noted, however, that the number six was not conjured up by our reporter but was, in fact, the number given to him by editor-in-chief Heikes. In retrospect, it’s clear that he was referring to his hard-news reporting staff, which indeed appears to be no more than six. The Weekly’s listing of its music editor and web manager and various art and tech support staff does nothing to alter the scope of the challenge that Heikes faces in building a credible and functional news department from such a tiny core reporting staff.