The Los Angeles Times announced late Wednesday that it would join the Associated Press in dropping the phrase "illegal immigrant" from its style guide.
Charles and David Koch are very major players in the Tribune Company's sale of some of the biggest newspapers in the country, including the Los Angeles Times and the Chicago Tribune, and according to a new report, they have debated using the media to spread their political message.
The bidding war for Tribune Company newspapers, including the Los Angeles Times and the Chicago Tribune, looks to have another moneyed influencer beyond the Koch brothers and Rupert Murdoch.
The Koch brothers are reportedly considering a bid for the Tribune Company newspapers — focusing on the crown jewels of the L.A. Times and Chicago Tribune, or at least what jewels of power are left in the flailing newspaper industry — but they may face stiff competition in the form of a debt-free, full pocketed media power player named Rupert Murdoch.
Things aren't as bad as they used to be in the newspapers business, but they're not good either. Perpetually faced with declining ad revenue, several papers have become landlords recently.
The Zero Dark Thirty director addresses her film's critics head-on in a new op-ed. But does her self-defense succeed?
Jonathan Gold, who's been poached by the Los Angeles Times, may have been the L.A. Weekly's most valuable byline not just because of his Pulitzer Prize, but because he makes such a point of reviewing the tiny ethnic restaurants that comprise Los Angeles's vast culinary landscape.
It seemed in the heady aftermath of Tuesday's ruling from the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals that a Supreme Court case on Proposition 8 was inevitable, but a few news reports have since pointed out that the Supreme Court might decline to hear the appeal on California's law banning gay marriage.
The Los Angeles Times just announced in a company-wide memo that Russ Stanton is stepping down as editor; managing editor Davan Maharaj will step up into the paper's top newsroom job.
Everybody made fun of The Los Angeles Times when they hired a former General Mills executive as CEO, which was the right thing to do since he ran the company into the ground with his zany ideas.
Some startling estimates from the people who run depend on the paper's presses
News Hawks Review is not about hawks, it's P.R. for a California water district
Chuck Phillips says his tarnished Tupac Shakur reporting has been vindicated
New details of the real estate tycoon's troubled acquisition of the Los Angeles Times
On regulating the global media, Chicago's approach to global warming, and immigration
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