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Catching up from the holiday on politics and media notes, plus a lot more.
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for November 2015
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Catching up from the holiday on politics and media notes, plus a lot more.
In the November radio Nielsen's, KCRW is back on top of KPCC but it's very close.
The last military transport to be made in Long Beach flew off Sunday, symbolically ending the era of aircraft manufacturing here.
About 400 headed out from Clifton's to conquer the former 10th Street. It's the walk's 10th anniversary.
He will finish out his 20th season with the Lakers. "Dear basketball," he writes in poem. " I’m ready to let you go."
Memo confirms that DC reporter Richard Serrano is leaving, details staff moves and announces that openings in Europe, Beirut and Las Vegas will be filled. Plus more.
Murdoch's Friday tweet about Eli Broad being close to acquiring the Times set off a media scramble. "Could well happen," Ken Doctor concludes.
Arts and Culture Editor Kelly Scott, Books Editor Joy Press, City-County Bureau Chief Rich Connell and education editor Beth Shuster join the brain drain. Plus five more photographers.
Scientific American takes stock and concludes "there’s simply not enough land for each of the several males left to establish new territory and find mates."
Tony Palazzo will run international coverage of media and telecoms.
"It’s time for a new chapter," says the Times' longtime columnist and most prominent African American journalist. "I don’t know what lies ahead."
"This gives painful dimension to the loss of knowledge and wisdom that Los Angeles is about to face."
Chicago's Tribune Media wants to cash in on the hot real estate market in downtown Los Angeles.
New manager for the Dodgers. Growth politics in LA. Women in Hollywood. Lots and lots of media notes. And more.
Cannick was arrested by the LAPD while covering a Ferguson protest in DTLA as a reporter last November.
This weekend's unseasonably high temperatures cinched a new record for 2015, breaking a mark that had stood for awhile.
Two black women -- an executive rousted at gunpoint and the chief of police -- have varied perspectives of the same incident.
Henry Chu, Larry Gordon, Bret Israel and Martha Groves are among the new additions to the confirmed buyout list at the Los Angeles Times.
"We don’t know exactly what’s causing it,” a CHP officer said. “Right now, it’s just a weird thing."
Galvez was a five-year veteran of the Downey Police Department from Whittier. Three suspects have been arrested.
Joe Bel Bruno jumps from the LAT's Company Town team to lead breaking news coverage at the Hollywood Reporter.
"We are looking for energetic journalists with proven records of digging deep into matters of public interest," editor Davan Maharaj says.
Add Carol Williams, the longtime foreign correspondent, to the names of LA Times buyout takers.
The actor does not have AIDS and says he has paid "into the millions" including to insiders to keep his status quiet over four years.
Politics writer Jean Merl, sports writers Chris Dufresne and Chris Foster, national writer John Glionna, food columnist Russ Parsons and fashion critic Booth Moore are among those leaving.
Sloan, 70, died Monday night. 'For those who grew up in Southern California in the golden glow of the mid-'60s," Joel Bellman writes, "he produced the soundtrack of our lives."
The Pacifica station says on Twitter that it is off the air this morning due to a power line being "down" and the transmitter possibly being affected by the wind.
Another missile launch coming? That homeless state of emergency pledged in LA never happened. Plus more.
Former LA Times sports editor Randy Harvey remembers his friend and colleague in the context of Houston's vote over transgender use of bathrooms.
In the end he did endorse Clinton, but it took the mayor's staff a while to get there.
In his terrific new podcast series, Santa Monica author Bill Barol seeks to explain what it meant to call the San Fernando Valley home.
The creator of the Batmobile and many other "kustom" cars for Hollywood was first a legend in the LA car culture.
Wow. This caps an interesting day for the LA Times. When you go to trial, anything can happen.
The short-term rental service defeated Measure F in Tuesday's election by 55% to 45%.
The six-week trial is wrapping up with the ask for damages dropping -- to just $12.3 million.
Looks like California will have a ski season and maybe even a winter snowpack.
Michael Anastasi will become VP of news and executive editor for the Tennessean newspaper and the Tennessee Media Network.
Twenty years later, Amazon has decided what it really needs is a physical, brick and mortar retail store to sell books.
Sam Quinones is the author of "Dreamland: The True Tale of America’s Opiate Epidemic." CBS didn't go for his pitches, then he saw "60 Minutes" last night.
For her NPR piece on the Day of the Dead celebration at Hollywood Forever, Los Angeles correspondent Mandalit del Barco hooked up with El Mariachi Manchester.
A weather change. Tarantino plans to apologize. A new spokeswoman for Kuehl. More politics, media and place.
There are openings for deputy director of communications, speechwriter and press secretary, per LinkedIn.
The last shoe drops from the Aaron Kushner era. The Register and Press-Enterprise will go on normally but new ownership could be on the way.
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.
