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Hanaa' TameezJanuary 25, 2024

After LA Times layoffs, questions about diversity and seniority swirl

Disagreements between the LA Times and its Guild over seniority protections ended in more than 60 journalists of color being laid off.

Hanaa' TameezJanuary 23, 2024

The LA Times lays off 115 people, with the De Los and Washington, D.C. teams especially hard-hit

“We are not in turmoil. We have a real plan,” the paper’s owner, billionaire businessman Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong, said.

Laura Hazard OwenOctober 27, 2022

The LA Times’ Día de Muertos digital altar was its most successful audience call-out ever

“Our initial hope was to get 40 or 50 submissions. We ended up receiving more than 1,000 ofrendas from across the country, and in four languages.”

Laura Hazard OwenSeptember 23, 2021

The LA Times’ Kevin Merida thinks Los Angeles is “the perfect place to redefine the modern newspaper”

“We don’t have to turn around a whole big ship. We can try things.”

Sarah ScireJuly 15, 2021

Nothing against the “Death Star,” but the LA Times thinks its new daily news podcast can go where the biggies can’t

“When you say national, usually what that means is New York or D.C. We’re trying to read that so that the gravity is really coming out of Southern California and expanding outward from that.”

The Objective StaffNovember 20, 2020

Why should Trump supporters get media coverage that other groups of voters don’t?

Plus: The Committee to Protect Journalists has its first union contract, Wisconsin Public Radio tracks source diversity, and who is Substack for?

The Objective StaffOctober 9, 2020

The Media 2070 project asks what media reparations would look like

Plus: The LA Times grapples with its racist history and journalists share the worst career advice they’ve received.

Ken DoctorDecember 6, 2019

Newsonomics: This is how the 5 biggest newspaper chains could become 2 — and it all comes down to one day, June 30, 2020

Worse, the two left standing could be run by hedge fund guys with little interest in more than the bottom line.

Austin SmithAugust 29, 2018

Why do billionaires decide to buy newspapers (and why should we be happy when they do)?

“If the Post is like Amazon, happy to sell individual slices of its vertically integrated whole, the Times is perhaps more like Apple, bringing its ethos and voice to a more diverse array of products.”

Christine SchmidtJune 28, 2018

More than a magic electoral map: How Politico plans its (open source) Slack chats during the midterms

It’s like the readers going to a watch party or trivia event, but with less effort — perhaps literally by staying at home.

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