January 20 - January 26, 2008

Saturday, Jan. 26
You simply can’t get away from all the recession chatter. Are we in one? Are we not? How bad? How...
Friday, Jan. 25
There are lots and lots of business organizations in L.A., but apparently they're unable to control the agenda the way...
That's right, bolsters production. On-location shooting was up almost 13 percent last year, according to FilmLA, with much of the...
She's settling her $100 million lawsuit against HarperCollins parent News Corp. for undisclosed terms. Natch. But inquiring minds want to...
Say this for the former Mouse House CEO: He's not afraid to try new things, even at the risk of...
Too much, too fast: Did Fed Chairman Bernanke act too quickly and hastily in lowering interest rates on Tuesday? That...
Thursday, Jan. 24
Those woe-is-us whiners keep insisting that the writers strike will practically destroy the local economy as we know it. A...
C'mon, that's what the cable business channels really boil down to, right? Or, putting it another way: Young babes interviewing...
Times Publisher David Hiller used his internal blog to lay out the job description for the big job. Several items...
So much for one of Rupert Murdoch's early ideas for the WSJ. You might recall his interest in lifting the...
Stocks still shaky: Positive earnings at AT&T, Lockheed and Nokia seem to be helping, along with reports of a bond...
Wednesday, Jan. 23
People is the only celebrity magazine to have the young actor on its upcoming cover, the result of a production...
Mortgage rates have fallen to their lowest levels since the peak of the real estate boom in 2004. Also, mortgage...
Markets still down: The Dow was off more than 200 points in early trading, then came back quite a bit...
Tuesday, Jan. 22
This is a big development because it means that the guild will now focus squarely on Internet compensation, which has...
The Fed's decision to cut interest rates by three-quarters of a point is being jeered in some circles as a...
Shares in the Calabasas-based mortgage company are up around 7 percent today, presumably on the comments of Bank of America...
Not that we need this kind of news on a day when the financial markets are struggling to keep it...
Market coming back: After opening down more than 400 points, the Dow is recovering somewhat, with the index down only...
Monday, Jan. 21
Why is this getting to be so complicated? Well, maybe it tells you something about relations between Publisher David Hiller...
Judging by today's trading in stock index futures, Tuesday could be a very, very tough day on Wall Street. The...
That's the lament of David Simon, former Baltimore Sun reporter and now executive director of HBO's "The Wire," whose Washington...
Editor & Publisher is quoting a source "close to Los Angeles executives" (whatever that means) as saying that Russ Stanton,...
Overseas markets plunge: U.S. exchanges are closed for the MLK holiday, but trading in most Asian markets has been grim....
Sunday, Jan. 20
LAT Editor James O'Shea apparently refused to trim $4 million from the newsroom budget, leading to some sort of confrontation...
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