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The trolling hits of the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books at USC this weekend were three guys in Trojan colors selling t-shirts mocking the admissions cheating scandal rocking the school.

Plus: A new LA Times show debuts on Spectrum News 1 and LA Observed drops in to the station to talk about the state of local news media.

Veronique de Turenne: Post-fire, Malibu is a different world.

Read the memos: A new foreign editor, columnist and replacements for the late Jonathan Gold are among the positions in the latest roundup. Also an abrupt exit from the Times masthead and an updated lineup for the senior editor group.

Veronique de Turenne: Praying for everyone in all of today's mind-boggling number of fire zones.

The Times' most interesting new hire. An LA correspondent gives his farewell observations. Media moves and more.

A shooting on camera. A local news paywall. Media notes, media people, selected tweets and more.

It doesn't much matter where a newsroom is located — unless you work there. Then it matters a lot. Times retention and hiring may be impacted.

LA Observed Notes: News designer tweets the end, media moves, selected tweets and more.

Larry Altman leaves the Daily Breeze after 28 years, much of that covering murder and mayhem. "For the most part, I loved being a reporter, but the job came with so much sadness and stress."

Some in the Los Angeles Times newsroom had hoped that Kim Murphy would become the editor in chief once Patrick Soon-Shiong takes over.

Long time host of "Good Day LA" has been scrubbed from the Channel 11 website. Website FTV Live says there were "sexual harassment allegations."

And more: Assemblyman will resign over women's accounts. Garcetti ambitions "not insane." Jim Newton needles the Times. Media people and selected tweets.

This happened a little bit faster than I expected. Hope there's no deal involved.

In honor of Frank Lloyd Wright's birthday, photos are allowed this weekend in his only home project in LA that is open to the public.

Our occasional roundup of news and notes on media, politics and place. Plus selected tweets.

Soon-Shiong looks to be moving on Ferro. Variety snags an editor. Another Los Angeles Magazine editor leaves.

Trump's orders to block refugees and travelers from Muslim countries - even U.S. legal residents - caught Homeland Security by surprise. Protesters and lawyers flooded the airport.

Gigantic Frank Gehry project on Sunset Boulevard approved. Kudos for LAT's Sea Breeze investigation. Notes on Campaign 2016, 2017 and 2018. And more.

There will be a ceremony on Thursday at Cal State San Bernardino.

Natalia, 18, got into Berkeley. Cropped to fit. Nico Young/NYT Magazine. Nico Young, an 11th grader last year at Santa Monica High School, is suddenly the envy of big-time and...

Huffington plans to leave the Huffington Post, the site she started 11 years ago, in the coming weeks.

LA County's disgraced former sheriff withdraws his guilty plea for lying to the FBI about jail abuse.

Steve Lopez has written a lovely column on his friend, the Skid Row organizer and housing advocate and co-founder of the LAMP Community.

Shooters apparently firing semi-automatic weapons hit at least 11 police officers in Dallas tonight at an otherwise calm protest over police shootings of unarmed suspects in other cities.

A brush fire started by a car accident this afternoon is burning right up to homes in Calabasas, close to the area of Old Topanga Road and Mulholland Highway.

He becomes the second largest shareholder, vice chairman of the board, and Michael Ferro's defense against a takeover by Gannett.

The Chronicle, KQED and 28 other media outlets will do stories the same day to push for a solution.

The old owner is still fighting eviction by the Chinese buyer of the Hollywood hillside landmark.

The time was 1972. Sanders says, "I would never vote for a bum like that!”

The LA Times turns its most valuable website acreage over to its own Pulitzer Prize, while the Washington Post stays with news of more interest to non-journalists.

The Times swarmed the story from the start and the effort pays off.

Before the former Charles Manson follower could actually get parole, the full state parole board and Gov. Jerry Brown would have to approve.

Change of Elysian Park Avenue to Vin Scully Avenue opens the home season -- Scully's 67th and final year.

The disgraced former undersheriff could face 15 years in prison when sentenced for conspiracy and obstruction of justice.

The new owners are meeting the staff in a town hall session this morning. More than 70 were laid off yesterday.

The civil antitrust lawsuit seeks a temporary restraining order to block last night's auction results.

LA Times parent puts up the most money, but questions remain.

A third bidder may yet join the auction but a sale could close by the end of the month.

Other female reporters tell Sports Illustrated a depressing story of hyper-vigilance, fear and never feeling truly safe in their rooms.

Jack Griffin lasted less than three weeks under the new largest shareholder of Tribune Publishing, which is no less screwed up than the previous Chicago overlords of the LA Times.

O'Donnell, 47, pushed Gov. Brown to sign California's new right-to-die act, which won't take effect until later this year.

Allison Wisk has been deputy politics editor at the Dallas Morning News and has a J.D. degree. Also: New reporter in Sacramento.

Warren Olney's nightly KCRW show about Los Angeles news ends tonight. Plus items from all over.

Miller is in his 43rd season, second to Vin Scully among local play-by-play guys.

There could be a train to the Inglewood stadium but the current earliest date is 2035.

Bowie's social media accounts posted tonight that the musician and actor has died after an 18-month fight with cancer.

LA's closest ski area doesn't make snow so it's all about the weather.

His career included work with David Alfaro Siqueiros, illustrating for "Sleeping Beauty" and "Fantastic Voyage," and murals for Disneyland and other Disney parks.

Three stops including San Gabriel and at the Jim Henson studios on La Brea Avenue in Hollywood.

Notes and news items that amassed during the holiday break around here.