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The web operation is still looking for the right LA headquarters, but for now BuzzFeed Motion Pictures is moving to Siren Studios.
Jim Romenesko reports the staff was told this morning that the magazine is closing effective immediately.
Bad day yesterday for stereotypes about the Mojave Desert cities being a hotbed of unsavory news.
Really informative interactive map from the Pew Research Center charting where America's immigrants came from.
Sarah D. Wire, now the Washington presence of the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, will cover the California delegation online.
Radio reporter Steve Futterman is organizing a 20-year reunion of the media folks who covered the people versus Orenthal J. Simpson this Saturday. Videos inside.
The Times added a new business writer, grabbing the managing editor of the LA Business Journal. Read the memo.
It's a companywide initiative to cut costs at Tribune Publishing and might now be a few weeks off. Meaning exits during the holidays.
There's nothing secret about KNBC's Santa Susana nuclear accident package -- the station broke the story for TV in 1979 with Warren Olney reporting.
They take to KTLA this morning to announce they are hanging up their microphones -- voluntarily. They go way back in LA broadcasting.
Producer Peter Jones wants the show to feel inpired by Ralph Story and Huell Howser, "who taught me the best quality to have as a journalist: listening."
Read the memo: Myers is the California political and government editor at KQED in the Bay Area and a longtime Sacramento media hand.
She will launch the California Playbook, Politico's west coast edition of Mike Allen's Playbook. "Within weeks," Politico says.
Scott Kraft, a former foreign correspondent and national editor, will "identify, shepherd and polish the top stories of the day" for the Times website.
Chicago station says it "failed to recognize that the image was an offensive Nazi symbol."
Report is that LA's richest person is "seriously considering" a bid but has not contacted Tribune. Not that the Times is even for sale.
Elevated bacteria counts plus the discovery of hypodermic needles and tampon applicators are tied to Hyperion's switch this week to a pipe dumping treated sewage just a mile offshore.
The ashes of Ray Richmond's mom may have been upstairs in the VIP area. But the family felt her presence.
Davan Maharaj memo declares it's a new, more digital era. Those considering the upcoming buyout will read it closely.
Andy Bales caught the trifecta of Skid Row infections — E. coli, strep and staph — and now uses a wheelchair. "Conditions on Skid Row are worse than they have ever been…"
Devon Maloney was pop music editor for four months, then quit to freelance. "My colleagues gave me no enthusiasm or positivity."
Stephen Randall, longtime deputy editor in Los Angeles for Playboy and overseer of the Playboy Interview, will transition to an editor-at-large role as change roils the magazine.
Noe Ramirez is the 18,548th player to appear in a major league baseball game, but he's almost certainly the first from the Ramona Gardens projects.
Tribune Publishing chief Jack Griffin talks to the NYT and his own Chicago Tribune. Beutner blamed for poor financial performance.
The new Clifton's opened last week but was unexpectedly closed all weekend "due to some unforeseen circumstances," a sign taped to the door said.
A whole lot of news, politics, media and place for the week.
A show of Eric Garcetti's social media photos opens downtown on Saturday and runs through Oct. 31.
The camel would probably have been in Saturday's Agua Dulce parade and some of the locals are pretty upset.
Bruce Karsh has held discussions with Eli Broad and others, says Crain's Chicago. Also a new examination of the LA Times' not-good situation by Newsonomics' Ken Doctor.
That June gathering of power players and civic activists at Tony Pritzker's home is going public with a discussion event at LACMA.
Two years after all the NPR chatter about being on the West Coast, Arun Rath and the staff are packing up in Culver City and the show returns to Washington.
Board issues an unusual statement saying Los Angeles is important to the company's future and giving the CEO a vote of confidence.
Gregory Caruso was the unflinching young guy sitting just left of Jake Tapper and creating a lot of social media buzz.
The Broad on Bunker Hill looks to be a hit. The Petersen, on the other hand, looks like something...
He was the LAT's big digital hope but followed Austin Beutner out the door. Also: LA's Board of Supes and a new online petition call for local leadership of the Times.
The drought has gone on so long there may be new Angelenos who have never seen the concrete Los Angeles River raging. Hola, El Niño.
Tribune Pubishing wants to reduce editorial expenses by about $10 million and 80 positions. That's a big hit.
A clip from Arthur Lee's revered 1967 album "Forever Changes" helps enliven a story on mortgages. Join me in "A House is Not a Motel."
Essential Politics so far looks as if it will aggregate Times coverage of the presidential campaign and other politics news, with some narrative and analysis tying items together.
A new study looks at blue oak tree rings in the Sierra Nevada. "The 2015 low is unprecedented in the context of the past 500 years," says a journal report.
Analyst Ken Doctor says the fight for Times control is still on and has some intriguing wrinkles.
"Our hugely improbable, racially romantic story did not mean that we'd solved the problems of the color line. Far from it."
Hundreds of homes were lost on Saturday night. For generations of hot springs soakers and New Age followers, there is more bad news.
Tom Johnson says in email to Austin Beutner that 'Your strategy was exactly what The Times needs in this rapidly changing media world.'
The pod appeared off San Onofre in Orange County this week and provided a show.
Garcetti and Hillary Clinton. Villaraigosa on Clinton. New Times publisher's salary and, wow, that housing allowance. Hyperion to discharge closer to shore.
Look what the newspaper boasted about 16 years ago — and look at what's gone.
The Fine Arts movie house on Wilshire Boulevard in Beverly Hills, dark for five years, reopens Sept. 18. Opened in 1937 as the Wilshire Regina.
More echoes of the early Tribune years in LA: open letter signed by 60 leaders backs Austin Beutner.
"I believe that this world class city deserves a world class paper," Renata Simril says in her exit email. Nicco Mele is said to be next.
The 52-year-old bookstore is leaving Santa Monica for a new 5,000-foot bookstore space at One Santa Fe.
Also: Ken Doctor writes this may not be the end of Austin Beutner's and Eli Broad's efforts to acquire the Times.
First he wants to build a wall to keep out the Americans with their problems.
"There’s 29,000 people in the ballpark and a million butterflies...All the boys in the bullpen straining to get a better look as they look through the wire fence in left field..."
"I was a little shocked just how closely 2015 resembles 1997 visually," says the visualization creator at UCAR.
"I am not departing by choice...Tribune Publishing has decided to fire me. I will continue to root for you to succeed."
Tribune Publishing's chief is headed to Los Angeles this morning to replace Beutner with a more Chicago-friendly publisher. The move, I'm told, follows a failed bid by Eli Broad to buy the Times away from Tribune.
California and the lore of LA are rife with Basque immigrants. A new study thinks it can finally answer: who are these people with their odd language?
Al Jazeera America goes for an Eastside tour with Sesshu Foster, "the poet laureate of a vanishing neighborhood."
LAPD Chief Charlie Beck credits Milner's Pete Malloy with inspiring him to join the force.
Media moves, crime politics, fires, LA bike gangs observed and much more.
Corey Seager, the system's top prospect, will wear number 5 and start over Jimmy Rollins at San Diego.
Assistant managing editor Kim Murphy says, given everything, "publishing the photo felt less like a gamble and more like an imperative."
The contest for dominance between LA's two main squirrel species is one of my favorite local wildlife situations.
Scott Glover will be a justice reporter based in Los Angeles. Everybody at the LAT seems to expect a new round of buyouts soon.
"This is as good as it gets," says real estate broker Jeff Hyland: 157 acres on the ridge line above Beverly Hills.
The suddenly rising crime rate threatens to undo a lot of good trends in Los Angeles.
For some, "the area can be a way station to a better place. For others, it’s a place where survival means community, drugs, and a regular spot on the street."
Byers will be the senior reporter for media and politics at CNNMoney and CNN Politics.
The blogger at Here in Van Nuys visited with some of the homeless parked in 15 vans, campers and RVs at North Hollywood Park.
The jail cells and other TV sets finally have to move out of the former home of the Los Angeles Examiner (and HerEx) at Broadway and 11th St.
The U.S. Olympic Committee designates LA after the City Council takes a 15-0 vote in support.
Carolina Garcia is the former editor of the Daily News and has been a managing editor for the LANG chain.
In early August we published a blogger piece about Williams, convicted in the murder of Los Angeles police officer Thomas Williams in 1985.
Mayor Garcetti and Council President Wesson will talk about the City Council's Olympics vote way out in Santa Monica.
Clinton fundraises in LA
Jim Henson Studios on La Brea became a presidential campaign stop on Thursday.
Brown declares disaster area
The natural gas leak above Porter Ranch now qualifies for various government actions. Story
Performing arts with cheer
Donna Perlmutter closes out 2015 with productions downtown and on the Westside.
