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.The Los Angeles Times (sometimes abbreviated as LA Times or L.A. Times) is a daily which has been published in, California, since 1881. It has the fourth largest circulation among, and is the largest U.S. Newspaper not headquartered on the. The paper is known for its coverage of issues particularly salient to the, such as immigration trends and natural disasters. It has won more than 40 Pulitzer Prizes for its coverage of these and other issues. As of June 18, 2018, ownership of the paper is controlled by, and the executive editor is.In the nineteenth century, the paper was known for its civic and opposition to unions, the latter of which led to the bombing of its headquarters in 1910.
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The paper's profile grew substantially in the 1960s under publisher, who adopted a more national focus. In recent decades, the paper's readership has declined and it has been beset by a series of ownership changes, staff reductions, and other controversies.
In January 2018, the paper's staff voted to, and in July 2018 the paper moved out of its historic downtown headquarters to a facility near. Chandler and Otis 1917 Otis era The Times was first published on December 4, 1881, as the Los Angeles Daily Times under the direction of. It was first printed at the Mirror printing plant, owned.
Unable to pay the printing bill, Cole and Gardiner turned the paper over to the Mirror Company. In the meantime, had joined the firm, and it was at his insistence that the Times continued publication. In July 1882, moved from to become the paper's editor. Otis made the Times a financial success.Historian wrote that Otis was a businessman 'capable of manipulating the entire apparatus of politics and public opinion for his own enrichment'. Otis's editorial policy was based on civic, extolling the virtues of Los Angeles and promoting its growth. Toward those ends, the paper supported efforts to expand the city's water supply. Rubble of the L.A.
Times building after theThe efforts of the Times to fight local unions led to the October 1, 1910, killing twenty-one people. Two union leaders, were charged.
The hired noted trial attorney to represent the brothers, who eventually pleaded guilty.Otis fastened a bronze eagle on top of a high frieze of the new Times headquarters building designed by, proclaiming anew the credo written by his wife, Eliza: 'Stand Fast, Stand Firm, Stand Sure, Stand True.' Chandler era Upon Otis's death in 1917, his son-in-law, took control as publisher of the Times. Harry Chandler was succeeded in 1944 by his son, who ran the paper during the rapid growth of Los Angeles. Norman's wife, became active in civic affairs and led the effort to build the, whose main concert hall was named the in her honor. Family members are buried at the near. The site also includes a memorial to the Times Building bombing victims. Times featuring news of theThe fourth generation of family publishers, held that position from 1960 to 1980.
Otis Chandler sought legitimacy and recognition for his family's paper, often forgotten in the power centers of the due to its geographic and cultural distance. He sought to remake the paper in the model of the nation's most respected newspapers, notably. Believing that the newsroom was 'the heartbeat of the business', Otis Chandler increased the size and pay of the reporting staff and expanded its national and international reporting. In 1962, the paper joined with The Washington Post to form the to syndicate articles from both papers for other news organizations.
He also toned down the unyielding conservatism that had characterized the paper over the years, adopting a much more centrist editorial stance.During the 1960s, the paper won four Pulitzer Prizes, more than its previous nine decades combined.Writing in 2013 about the pattern of newspaper ownership by founding families, Times reporter Michael Hiltzik said that:The first generations bought or founded their local paper for profits and also social and political influence (which often brought more profits). Their children enjoyed both profits and influence, but as the families grew larger, the later generations found that only one or two branches got the power, and everyone else got a share of the money. Eventually the coupon-clipping branches realized that they could make more money investing in something other than newspapers. Under their pressure the companies went public, or split apart, or disappeared. That's the pattern followed over more than a century by the Los Angeles Times under the Chandler family.The paper's early history and subsequent transformation was chronicled in an unauthorized history Thinking Big (1977, ), and was one of four organizations profiled by in (1979,; 2000 reprint ).
It has also been the whole or partial subject of nearly thirty dissertations in communications or social science in the past four decades. Decline The Los Angeles Times began a decline with Los Angeles itself with the decline in military production at the end of the Cold War. It faced hiring freezes in 1991-1992.Another major decision at the same time was to cut the range of circulation. They cut circulation in California's Central Valley, Nevada, Arizona and then the San Diego edition.Modern era.
Seen from the corner of 1st and Spring streetsThe Los Angeles Times was beset in the first decade of the 21st century by a change in ownership, a, a rapid succession of editors, reductions in staff, decreases in paid circulation, the need to increase its Web presence, and a series of controversies.For two days in 2005, the Times experimented with, the first by a major news organization to allow readers to combine forces to produce their own editorial pieces. It was shut down after being besieged with inappropriate material. The newspaper moved to a new headquarters building in, near Los Angeles International Airport, in July 2018.Ownership In 2000, the Times-Mirror Company, publisher of the Times, was purchased by the of, placing the paper in co-ownership with then-WB (now )-affiliated, which Tribune acquired in 1985.On April 2, 2007, the Tribune Company announced its acceptance of real estate entrepreneur 's offer to buy the, the Los Angeles Times, and all other company assets. Zell announced that he would sell the baseball club. He put up for sale the company's 25 percent interest in Chicago.
Until shareholder approval was received, Los Angeles billionaires and had the right to submit a higher bid, in which case Zell would have received a $25 million buyout fee.In December 2008, the Tribune Company filed for bankruptcy protection. The bankruptcy was a result of declining advertising revenue and a debt load of $12.9 billion, much of it incurred when the paper was taken private by Zell.On February 7, 2018, agreed to sell the Los Angeles Times along with other southern California properties (, ) to billionaire biotech investor. This purchase by Soon-Shiong through his Nant Capital investment fund is for $500 million, as well as the assumption of $90 million in pension liabilities. The sale to Soon-Shiong closed on June 16, 2018. Editorial changes and staff reductions , former editor of the, was brought in to restore the luster of the newspaper.
During his reign at the Times he eliminated more than 200 jobs, but despite an operating profit margin of 20 percent, the Tribune executives were unsatisfied with returns, and by 2005 Carroll had left the newspaper. His successor, refused to impose the additional cutbacks mandated by the Tribune Company.Baquet was the first African-American to hold this type of editorial position at a top-tier daily. During Baquet and Carroll's time at the paper, it won 13, more than any other paper but The New York Times. However, Baquet was removed from the editorship for not meeting the demands of the Tribune Group—as was publisher Jeffrey Johnson—and was replaced by James O'Shea of the Chicago Tribune. O'Shea himself left in January 2008 after a budget dispute with publisher.The paper's content and design style was overhauled several times in attempts to increase circulation. In 2000, a major change reorganized the news sections (related news was put closer together) and changed the 'Local' section to the 'California' section with more extensive coverage. Another major change in 2005 saw the Sunday 'Opinion' section retitled the Sunday 'Current' section, with a radical change in its presentation and featured columnists.
There were regular with Tribune-owned television station KTLA to bring evening-news viewers into the Times fold.The paper reported on July 3, 2008, that it planned to cut 250 jobs by and reduce the number of published pages by 15 percent. That included about 17 percent of the news staff, as part of the newly private media company's mandate to reduce costs. 'We've tried to get ahead of all the change that's occurring in the business and get to an organization and size that will be sustainable,' Hiller said. In January 2009, the Times increased its single-copy price from 50 to 75 cents and eliminated the separate California/Metro section, folding it into the front section of the newspaper. The Times also announced seventy job cuts in news and editorial, or a 10 percent cut in payroll.In September 2015, in an apparent struggle over localized versus corporate control, the publisher and chief executive, was replaced by.On October 5, 2015, reported that ' 'At least 50' editorial positions will be culled from the Los Angeles Times' through a buyout. On this subject, the Los Angeles Times reported with foresight: 'For the 'funemployed,' unemployment is welcome.' , who took O'Shea's buyout offer, did so because of 'frustration with the paper's coverage of working people and organized labor' (the beat that earned her Pulitzer ).
Abandoned Los Angeles Times vending machine in Covina, California, in 2011Other reasons offered for the circulation drop included an increase in the single-copy price from 25 cents to 50 cents and a rise in the proportion of readers preferring to read the online version instead of the print version. Editor Jim O'Shea, in an internal memo announcing a May 2007, mostly voluntary, characterized the decrease in circulation as an 'industry-wide problem' which the paper had to counter by 'growing rapidly on-line,' 'breaking news on the Web and explaining and analyzing it in our newspaper.'
In early 2006, the Times closed its printing plant, leaving press operations to the Olympic plant and to. Also in 2006, the Times announced its circulation had fallen to 851,532, down 5.4 percent from 2005. The Times's loss of circulation was the largest of the top ten newspapers in the U.S.Despite the circulation decline, many in the media industry lauded the newspaper's effort to decrease its reliance on 'other-paid' circulation in favor of building its 'individually paid' circulation base—which showed a marginal increase in a circulation audit.
This distinction reflected the difference between, for example, copies distributed to hotel guests free of charge (other-paid) versus subscriptions and single-copy sales (individually paid). Internet presence and free weeklies In December 2006, a team of Times reporters delivered management with a critique of the paper's online news efforts known as the. The report, which condemned the Times as a 'web-stupid' organization,'was followed by a shakeup in management of the paper's website, and a rebuke of print staffers who had assertedly 'treated change as a threat.'
On July 10, 2007, Times launched a local site targeting live entertainment for young adults. A free weekly print edition of Metromix Los Angeles followed in February 2008; the publication was the newspaper's first stand-alone print weekly. In 2009, the Times shut down Metromix and replaced it with Brand X, a and free weekly tabloid targeting young, readers. Brand X launched in March 2009; the Brand X tabloid ceased publication in June 2011 and the website was shut down the following month.In May 2018, the Times blocked access to its online edition from most of Europe because of the European Union's. Other controversies It was revealed in 1999 that a revenue-sharing arrangement was in place between the Times and in the preparation of a 168-page magazine about the opening of the sports arena. The magazine's editors and writers were not informed of the agreement, which breached the that traditionally has separated advertising from journalistic functions at American newspapers.
Publisher Mark Willes also had not prevented advertisers from pressuring reporters in other sections of the newspaper to write stories favorable to their point of view. The Los Angeles Times buildingwas hired as the Opinion and Editorial Editor in April 2004 to help improve the quality of the opinion pieces. His role was controversial, as he forced writers to take a more decisive stance on issues. In 2005, he created a, the first by a major news organization.
Although it failed, readers could combine forces to produce their own editorial pieces. He resigned later that year.The Times drew fire for a last-minute story before the alleging that candidate groped scores of women during his movie career. Columnist wrote on the American Reporter website that the Times did not do a story on allegations that former Governor had verbally and physically abused women in his office and that the Schwarzenegger story relied on a number of anonymous sources. Further, she said, four of the six alleged victims were not named. She also said that in the case of the Davis allegations, the Times decided against printing the Davis story because of its reliance on anonymous sources. The said that the Times lost more than 10,000 subscribers because of the negative publicity surrounding the Schwarzenegger article.On November 12, 2005, new Op-Ed Editor announced the dismissal of liberal op-ed columnist and conservative editorial cartoonist.The Times has also come under controversy for its decision to drop the weekday edition of the comic strip in 2005, in favor of a hipper comic strip, while retaining the Sunday edition.
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Garfield was dropped altogether shortly thereafter.Following the 's defeat in the, an Opinion piece published on November 19, 2006, by, a leading and a resident scholar at the conservative, was titled BOMB IRAN. The article shocked some readers, with its hawkish comments in support of more unilateral action by the United States, this time against Iran.On March 22, 2007, editorial page editor resigned following an alleged scandal centering on his girlfriend's professional relationship with a Hollywood producer who had been asked to guest edit a section in the newspaper. In an open letter written upon leaving the paper, Martinez criticized the publication for allowing the between the news and editorial departments to be weakened, accusing news staffers of lobbying the opinion desk. Further information:In November 2017, blacklisted the Times from attending press screenings of its films, in retaliation for September 2017 reportage by the paper on 's political influence in the Anaheim area. The company considered the coverage to be 'biased and inaccurate'.
As a sign of condemnation and solidarity, a number of major publications and writers, including, critic, blogger Alyssa Rosenberg, and the websites and, announced that they would boycott press screenings of future Disney films. The, and jointly announced that Disney's films would be ineligible for their respective year-end awards unless the decision was reversed, condemning the decision as being 'antithetical to the principles of a free press and setting a dangerous precedent in a time of already heightened hostility towards journalists'. On November 7, 2017, Disney reversed its decision, stating that the company 'had productive discussions with the newly installed leadership at the Los Angeles Times regarding our specific concerns'. Pulitzer Prizes. Main article:Since 1980, the Times has awarded annual book prizes. The categories are now biography, current interest, fiction, first fiction, history, mystery/thriller, poetry, science and technology, and young adult fiction. In addition, the is presented annually to a living author with a substantial connection to the American West whose contribution to American letters deserves special recognition'.
Book publishing The Times Mirror Corporation has also owned a number of book publishers over the years including, as well as, and.In 1960, Times Mirror of Los Angeles bought the book publisher known for publishing affordable paperback reprints of classics and other scholarly works. The NAL continued to operate autonomously from New York and within the Mirror Company. And in 1983 Odyssey Partners and Ira J. Hechler bought NAL from the Times Mirror Company for over $50 million.In 1967, Times Mirror acquired, a professional publisher and merged it over the years with several other professional publishers including Resource Application, Inc., Year Book Medical Publishers, Wolfe Publishing Ltd., PSG Publishing Company, B.C. Decker, Inc., among others. Eventually in 1998 Mosby was sold to Harcourt Brace & Company to form the Elsevier Health Sciences group.
Broadcasting activities Times-Mirror Broadcasting Company. Area servedProductsandThe Times-Mirror Company (1947-1963, 1970-1993)Silent (1963-1970)WebsiteThe Times-Mirror Company was a founding owner of television station in, which opened in January 1949.
It became that station's sole owner in 1951, after re-acquiring the minority shares it had sold to in 1948. Times-Mirror also purchased a former motion picture studio, in in 1950, which was then used to consolidate KTTV's operations. Later to be known as, the studio was sold along with KTTV to in 1963.After a seven-year hiatus from the medium, the firm reactivated Times-Mirror Broadcasting Company with its 1970 purchase of the and its radio and television stations, -TV in.
The granted an exemption of its policy and allowed Times-Mirror to retain the newspaper and the television outlet, which was renamed.Times-Mirror Broadcasting later acquired in in 1973; and in 1980 purchased a group of stations owned by: WAPI-TV (now ) in; in; WSYR-TV (now ) in and its satellite station WSYE-TV (now ) in; and WTPA-TV (now ) in. The company also entered the field of cable television, servicing the and areas, amongst others. They were originally titled Times-Mirror Cable, and were later renamed to Dimension Cable Television. Similarly, they also attempted to enter the pay-TV market, with the movie network; it wasn't successful and was quickly shut down. The cable systems were sold in the mid-1990s to.Times-Mirror also pared its station group down, selling off the Syracuse, Elmira and Harrisburg properties in 1986. The remaining four outlets were packaged to a new upstart holding company, Argyle Television, in 1993.
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