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June 07, 2003
David Shaw argues in a Sunday L.A. Times column that the fabrications of journalists such as Jayson Blair and Stephen Glass were an inevitable result...
June 06, 2003
Jim Romenesko, king of the media bloggers, is modest about his role in the Howell Raines downfall: "I just post the stories." For this feature...
LA Weekly won a pair of Alternative Newsweekly Awards announced Friday, for arts criticism by John Powers and photography by Max S. Gerber. The Weekly...
The former L.A. Times Metro columnist, city editor and longtime politics writer Bill Boyarsky has begun contributing a monthly "City Voice" column to the Jewish...
Editor and Publisher, the newspaper trade publication, has released its annual feature on 10 That Do It Right and includes no papers from California. The...
The Wall Street Journal mentions L.A. Times editor John Carroll as a possible longshot for the top job at the New York Times, then shoots...
Tim Rutten says the Internet was crucial in the takedown of New York Times editor Howell Raines and managing editor Gerald Boyd. It was, he...
June 05, 2003
Nobody as yet seems to have good information that L.A. Times managing editor Dean Baquet is on the short list for New York Times executive...
"'Bruce Almighty' is an extremely funny movie," writes Sister Rose Pacatte in The Tidings, the weekly newspaper of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles. Far from...
There's no ignoring the sound made by the motors on the Goodyear blimp. They whine like a super-sized insect, and whenever the unmistakable buzzing floats...
The Los Angeles Press Club plans to give its second Daniel Pearl Award for Courage and Integrity in Journalism to Michael Kelly, the editor at...
Executive editor Howell Raines and managing editor Gerald Boyd both resign in the continuing fallout from the Jayson Blair scandal. Jim Romenseko has a good...
June 04, 2003
In response to the John Carroll memo on L.A. Times liberal bias, Marc Cooper of the LA Weekly conjures up a missive to Carroll from...
Steven Zeitchik of Publisher's Weekly covers the party scene and also wraps up the business end of the weekend's BookExpo America held in L.A. It...
William Dean Singleton, owner of the L.A. Daily News, the Long Beach Press-Telegram and a clutch of other SoCal newspapers, is the first media mogul...
L.A. Times managing editor Dean Baquet should be considered a contender for the top job at the New York Times if Howell Raines does not...
Virginia Postrel, herself a blogger and author, chides the online writers who have been piling on the New York Times knee-jerk style and addresses one...
44 Minutes: The North Hollywood Shootout on Sunday night drew the highest ratings ever for the FX cable network, the Hollywood Reporter says. Here's the...
Freddie Blassie entertained Los Angeles as the most hated villain of local "professional" wrestling in the 1950s and 60s, when wrestling and roller derby were...
June 03, 2003
Some kind of fees or subscriptions are in the future at the Los Angeles Times website, Tribune Interactive boss David Hiller says. He tells American...
KCET's Life and Times has author Calvin Trillin on tonight (channel 28 at 7 and 11 p.m.) along with a report on the Wiseburn School...
The Pacifica radio station at 90.7 FM that has been on the L.A. scene since 1959 is throwing an open house and barbecue this Saturday...
Newsweek's June 9 issue offers up a script for a campaign ad should Arnold Schwarzenegger need one, and also considers the personal pros and cons...
June 02, 2003
One of the most multi-faceted scribes in the city -- two LAT columns, TV and radio commentaries, panels, bookstore appearances, VP of the Los Angeles...
The Republican majority on the FCC voted as expected to ease federal rules on media ownership. In Los Angeles this means that the Tribune Co....
L.A. Times national correspondent Scott Gold receives some nice praise from Editor John Carroll in the aftermath of Carroll's memo critiquing a recent Gold story...
Michael Viner, who published the book by O.J. trial figure Faye Resnick and the memoir by former Heidi Fleiss call girls called You'll Never Make...
Ken Layne, who is a co-founder with Matt Welch of LA Examiner.com and is involved with Dick Riordan's promised weekly, says on his blog that...
June 01, 2003
Jonathan Kirsch peruses the newest anthology of L.A. literature, The Misread City: New Literary Los Angeles, and writes in the L.A. Times Book Review that...
CaliforniaAuthors.com is filing occasional reports from the BookExpo downtown. So is Roger L. Simon on his blog, here and here. C-SPAN2 is also devoting most...
The teenage busboy photographed as he cradled the bloodied head of Robert F. Kennedy on the pantry floor at the Ambssador Hotel on June 5,...
In advance of this week's FCC vote on media ownership, L.A. Times business writer James Bates remembers when Los Angeles TV channels stopped at 2-4-5-7-9-11-13...
The Daily News editorial page gets off a good jab at the title given the new city office building in Van Nuys: "Not since the...
That frightening morning in 1996 when the LAPD came under attack from bank robbers with assault rifles and body armor in North Hollywood produced incredibly...
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