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A Change.org petition by Rob Eshman asks Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti to make it happen.
Also: The Galaxy's undocumented player, media moves, selected tweets and Big Jay McNeely dies.
"SoCal Connected" returns Oct. 9 with a new focus on long-form investigative documentary pieces, starting with the LA Times and other local newsrooms in transition.
Cities again barred from prosecuting the homeless. Hands across the aisle at USC. Much more.
The restaurant critic, cultural anthropologist and voice of Los Angeles found out this month that he had pancreatic cancer.
Also: Press Club awards. The Athletic swarms Los Angeles. Moves by Jackie Johnson and David Poland. Selected tweets.
The kittens, all females, were born to P-62 and are the first litter to be tagged in the hills north of the 101 freeway.
Staffers toast the end of Tronc in LA and a new start with an owner who seems to care. "Fake news is the cancer of our times," Soon-Shiong says.
Murray Fromson obits, the new police chief, slow-walking the LAT sale, media notes, selected tweets and more.
Long Beach doings. An exit from KCAL. Times scores big hit on USC. Trump's lying ways. Plus Linda Ronstadt, LAist, media people and selected tweets.
The LAT also loses sports reporter Lindsey Thiry to ESPN and previously lost White House correspondent Brian Bennett to Time.
The station that used to be the PBS flagship in Los Angeles — KCET — and the current flagship — PBS SoCal, or KOCE — are going to save themselves and combine in a "merger of equals."
City Hall is pushing waivers from environmental studies so Musk can bore a 2.7-mile test hole south to Culver City.
"82 Portraits and 1 Still-Life" opens at the museum this weekend. Some pics.
LA Observed Notes: Christopher Hawthorne defects, Pomona mourns, Soon-Shiong goes to the Gridiron, media moves and much more.
Read the memo: Buyer assures nervous newsroom he wants to "preserve the integrity, honesty and fairness we’ve observed in our decades as avid readers of the LA Times."
LA Observed Notes: Times has had it with's LA homeless response. Garcetti, Soon-Shiong, Harvey Weinstein, TV reporter runs for office, selected tweets.
Talking Points: A trip down Whittier Boulevard. Trump vs journalism. City bans cellphones in crosswalks. And more.
Plus: Bed bugs in the library, more bad newspaper news, media moves and selected tweets.
Garvey had been the top digital editor at the LA Times until the Tronc purge last year.
Steve Greenberg cartoon captures the new buyer of the LA Times.
If you read one long piece today, we have a suggestion. Plus the latest LA Times chatter, media people notes, Uma Thurman speaks, selected tweets and more.
Lewis D'Vorkin is out -- who didn't see that coming? -- and Jim Kirk, last year's interim editor of the LA Times from Chicago, is being rushed back to stop the madness.
A stormy day began with a 5,000-piece in CJR and ended with the Business editor walked out of the building, at least temporarily.
Tom Hoffarth, the longtime Daily News sports columnist, says he is one of 10 sports staffers to lose their jobs. The Breeze lost all but one photographer, per a report.
NPR reveals an alleged backstory on Ross Levinsohn that has the newsroom in a major uproar. It's especially painful for gay reporters.
That leaves one chain bookstore west of the Grove, unless you count the new Amazon store in Century City.
"The world stood still today for my sweet husband," his wife posted after a solemn procession Sunday drew crowds along several SoCal freeways. "He is home."
Doyle McManus leaving LAT, new LA Weekly gets an editor, Jerry Brown on "60 Minutes," bad sheriffs, media notes and a good read that's not really about cats.
Our occasional roundup of news and notes. This time: award winners, media notes and selected tweets, plus a magazine issue on teenagers.
Lewis D'Vorkin's visit in the Oval Office. New city editor named at the Times. Media people and selected tweets.
Some bullet points coming out of the long holiday weekend.
"Many people I know in Los Angeles believed the '60s ended abruptly on Aug. 9, 1969," Joan Didion wrote of the most notorious multiple murders in Los Angeles history.
Plus two weekend pieces examine Harvey Weinstein spokeswoman Sallie Hofmeister, and Pulitzer talk for Ronan Farrow.
The scandal that won't go away. An LAT columnist apologizes. Job movies, an invite from the New York Times and other media notes.
Owner kills all the Gothamist and DNAInfo sites after union vote.
"Here are some other facts you may want to consider as you decide whether or not to unionize."
Dodgers walk off in game 2. The obstacles to covering Hollywood. Media notes, moves and changes. Plus selected tweets.
Broad chooses the New York Times for announcement that he wants to spend more time with his family and "catch up on my reading."
Lewis D'Vorkin has never run a newspaper and brings no Los Angeles experience to the table. At Forbes he increased web clicks and gave advertisers more influence.
Coverage of the movie mogul's professional demise, many media notes, a union surfaces at the LA Times, selected tweets and more.
On the ground in Mexico and Puerto Rico, another LA Times exit, media obits and selected tweets.
Bullet points: LA River bacteria. Dodgers lose 10th in a row. That fatal night they boxed at the stadium. On the ground in Florida.
Bullet points: Manson follower not paroled. Veep to end. Tyrus Wong documentary. Midweek media notes. Much more.
LA Observed Notes: Covering Harvey, Dodgers flailing, an editor change in LA, media notes, Angels Flight shuts again
This weekend's fire in Los Angeles isn't even the worst La Tuna Canyon fire in recent times.
Today's Bullet Points include LA Times newsroom love for a fired editor, pink blobs in Echo Park, media notes and selected tweets.
Bullet Points: A horrific jail death. Food writers in Tuscany. The LA Times follows on Canter's. A media promotion, a hire, and the celebrity terminal at LAX. Plus a difficult long read.
More bullet points: LA Times' million-dollar publisher. The big business of the American quinceañera. Media people doing stuff. A Manny Ramirez sighting.
Today's Bullet Points include a KPCC investigation of donations to Mayor Eric Garcetti, the vermin problem at Canter's, the Village Voice drops print, some LA media people notes and more.
Four top editors were not the only casualties of Tronc's purge in the LAT newsroom.
Today's Bullet Points include lessons for the news media from Charlottesville, video of California condor chicks in the wild and selected tweets.
Bullet Points: Attacking the Jews in Charlottesville. Zócalo on the move. USC Village. Transitions at City Hall and the Times.
Our occasional gathering of notes on media, politics and place with selected tweets.
LA Times explains how many times it gave USC a chance to comment on a dean's secret life. Plus LAT buyouts, media people doing stuff and selected tweets.
Investigation into the secret drug life of the dean of the Keck School of Medicine proves a bevy of stunning revelations. Kudos roll in.
NPR staffers won't face a strike. Obits for Martin Landau, George Romero, Bill Smith and Tenny Tenusian. Selected tweets.
Report of a lease deal says the Times will have naming rights to the 62-story Aon Center on Wilshire Boulevard. The Times says it has not signed a lease.
Plus it's time to pay attention to the Dodgers, Roxane Gay is in town, media people doing stuff and selected tweets.
"Left, Right & Center is one of KCRW’s most popular shows, on air and as a podcast..."
The Travel section is also going dark during the peak summer travel season. Meanwhile: a joint profile of former LAT editors Dean Baquet and Marty Baron.
Chock full of Monday observations on media and media people, politics, place and more. Plus a good week for selected tweets.
The kittens were abandoned by their mother, P-42.
Wong was based in Rancho Park and was training at his new station downtown when he fell from a ladder and died.
The total jumped 23 percent over last year despite many more homeless people being moved into housing. So it could have been even worse.
"Before John Severson, there was really no surf art, no surf magazines, no real surf films, no surfwear industry, no pro surfing, no Surfrider Foundation, no surf culture as we know it."
Also: Monica Rodriguez elected to the Los Angeles City Council. Board of Education member Steve Zimmer lost.
Our occasional roundup of media, politics and place news and notes.
KCRW's Frances Anderton goes through the house that architect Thom Mayne built for himself on the site of Bradbury's longtime home in Cheviot Hills.
LA Observed Notes for midweek: Peabody and Murrow awards, an era ending at NPR, new on Jimmy Wales and Steve Bannon plus more.
Maharaj at the LAT Book Prizes plus media notes, LA riots anniversary and more.
Alvear started at KNBC and became NBC's first Latina news producer when she led Latin America coverage.
"As Mayor, there’s no issue I spend more time on," Garcetti says in his annual state of the city speech.
"Nothing prepared us for the magnitude of this train wreck," the Los Angeles Times says of Donald Trump in a full-page editorial. Plus: Paul Magers, the Groundlings founder and more.
He's under 50 percent in the final vote tally and becomes the first councilman since 1999 to face a reelection runoff.
Bay has been director of the journalism school at USC. Also: Notes on James Rainey, Tronc and more.
Media and politics notes from all over, plus media people news, some place notes and selected tweets.
LA Observed contributor Iris Schneider is one of the six photographers whose images are included in a show opening tonight at the Arena 1 Gallery at Santa Monica Airport.
The county homeless measure and Gil Cedillo's reelection are too close to call, but there will be runoffs for the school board and in the Valley's council district 7.
Osborne's TV credits begin in 1954, but in 1977 he took up writing for the Hollywood Reporter and became the genial first host of TCM movies.
Nick Ut's retirement. Key editors jump from the LA Times. Downtown News sold. Plus many more notes and observations.
Emmis Communications sells Los Angeles and Orange Coast magazines to a Detroit-based publisher. What happens now is unclear.
Westwood Village, once the place where big films opened, is about to be down to just two remaining movie houses.
Johnson, the new president of basketball operations, has already made a trade and hired a general manager.
Keith Boyer, a veteran with the Whittier Police Department, was 53 and a father. He was shot by a recent parolee.
"A giant of American film criticism," Kenneth Turan says of Schickel, the longtime Time critic, author and documentary maker.
Finke has been awarded a Knight Nieman fellowship to "explore best practices in the reporting of breaking news and analysis in a 24/7 media environment."
News, notes and observations of media, politics and place. Plus selected tweets.
Hard to imagine a bigger change to the infrastructure and environment of the Westside.
A few hundred thousand people on the streets all day and no arrests of any kind. Lots of great signs though.
It's against "long-standing ethics guidelines" to participate, the managing editor's memo reminds the journalists.
The owners are slowly selling off their alt weeklies and predict the LA Weekly will generate buyer interest.
Media, books, politics and place and a few tweets.
The morning show loses a host -- Alex Cohen -- and an hour of air time each day.
The male puma cub was struck on the 118 Freeway, which claimed P-39 last month.
Giving up journalism. A new managing editor. A film reporter and more in our occasional roundup.
Austin Raishbrook, an owner of RMG News, put down his camera and saved a life on the freeway.
Wong's artwork inspired "Bambi." He contributed to other films and was also known for his beach kites.
Co-managing editor Larry Ingrassia goes after the magazine and writer Ed Leibowitz for "What's the matter with the Los Angeles Times?"
From the LA Observed archives, a piece for the winter solstice on a Chumash cave painting in the local hills.
A extra big helping of our occasional roundup of media, politics and place notes.
Donald Trump tweets his way to the top item again by inventing a new conspiracy. Plus much more.
It's been awhile since there was an editor in charge of covering prominent deaths. He doesn't get any assigned writers.
Some observations, plus a weekly dose of media and politics notes.
LA Times loses a top Hollywood voice. Dodgers go home. More Trump and Clinton notes.
This year's local genius grant winners have ties to USC, Caltech and CalArts.
Gawker.com's last day. Clinton is in town for fundraisers. Media moves. Jobs. And in praise of the Olympics.
Villaraigosa was married to Patricia Govea at a hotel in San Miguel de Allende.
Weekend news report in the Times is an exact copy of a story in the San Diego Union-Tribune in 2010.
"Don’t use your social media feed to pan or praise candidates, parties or their positions," a memo from the managing editor reminds reporters.
The highway in the San Gabriel Mountains lets you drive 66 miles through "some of the most difficult terrain in the U.S."
The demise of KPFK's "Deadline LA" media analysis show was greatly exaggerated.
The start white and red apartment complex in the Arts District will get a softer look under new ownership.
Muhammad Ali, who died today at age 74, had a lot of connections to Los Angeles.
About 200 staffers would be laid off, a report says.
The outrage that isn't about the scandal that wasn't crosses over from the web.
This is the piece you want to read as the games tick away in our time with Vin Scully.
More revenue than you've ever seen. Artificial intelligence. Revolutionize the strategy. Piece of cake.
Newsweek goes long on an exploration of the mysteries about Richardson and the LA Sheriff's Department.
The original Filthy McNasty's occupied the Sunset Strip spot now the Viper Room. He also ran FM Station in the Valley.
After sale of the real estate, the net cost for buying the OC Register and Riverside's Press-Enterprise is just $15.8 million.
ET-94 towers 15 stories high and will be displayed at the California Science Center.
There's good news and bad news for Westside drivers in the president's schedule of fundraiser appearances this trip.
Aides of the Valley councilwoman and their family members have been called into a grand jury over $5 and $10.
Former freelancer is back looking for vindication.
With his convictions overturned on appeal, Alarcon says he is a candidate for Congress in the Valley.
She discloses the news at DTLA press conference.
On its first day under a new publisher, though I don't know if it mattered, the Los Angeles Times editorial board used very strong rhetoric in an editorial blasting...
The editor since 2011 will be the first joint editor-publisher of the LAT possibly since the era of General Harrison Otis. He's the fourth publisher in two years.
Competing ballot measures on housing in LA. Rising crime rates. Winter heat is back. And much more.
The New Yorker goes deep on Levin's network of sources and the payments made for private info on celebrities.
The in-fighting between owners was "bloody and bitter," says ESPN the Magazine in a long takeout.
The story doesn't include any reports of traffic problems, but some LAT headlines are becoming more about hype than truth.
Steve Barr in photo by Kris Krug on Flickr via LA Weekly. Add Green Dot Charter Schools founder Steve Barr to the menu of candidates that might run against Mayor...
Developments at Porter Ranch. Penske buys Indiewire. Univision buys the Onion. A fake Politico reporter. Local finalists for the National Book Critics Circle. And much more.
All the nominated actors are white and two are from Spotlight: Rachel McAdams and Mark Ruffalo.
Selected items from the media, our in box and other LA Observed sources.
Griffith Park mountain lion is over the mange and up to 123 pounds. Still no mate, however.
Several state agencies are ordered to take a role in getting SoCal Gas to stop the methane venting above Aliso Canyon.
This is the first time since LA's National Football League teams left town that things have actually gotten this far.
Only five hours for supper, but it's enough time for the hard-core Musso's types to run in for a martini and a steak.
New at LA Observed
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.
