A sharp letter to the editor this past weekend alerted me to a startlingly good Los Angeles Times story I had missed on California's high gas prices, complete with a graph that almost tells the story itself. Here's the letter, from Jim Cody of North Hollywood: The graph that accompanied this article, which shows how crudeContinue reading “Refiners push up gas prices in CA today: L.A. Times”
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A great reporter tells her father’s story on the front page
Julie Cart is a terrific, award-winning environmental reporter, whose work I have been reading and admiring for many years in the Los Angeles Times. Today she tells, on the front page, the story of her father's secret life as a project manager in a top secret surveillance satellite system. But there's more, and it's mostlyContinue reading “A great reporter tells her father’s story on the front page”
L.A. Times takes home two Pulitzers, much pride
A team of reporters from the Los Angeles Times, reporting on the tiny town of Bell and its corrupt leadership, has taken home virtually every big award given out in journalism, including a Pulitzer. Reporter Jeff Gottlieb, who worked the story with Ruben Vives, recounted the story's genesis: Gottlieb, 57, recounted the moment he andContinue reading “L.A. Times takes home two Pulitzers, much pride”
The Fabulousness of Unemployment
As circulation continues to crater, the Los Angeles Times laid off another forty or so staffers this week, including numerous veterans who somehow survived the last two years of terror at the beleaguered newspaper. Among them was a dashing columnist named Tina Daunt, who has reacted by going (on her blog at least) with sheerContinue reading “The Fabulousness of Unemployment”
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