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Richard Read has joined the Los Angeles Times as the paper's Northwest correspondent, based in Seattle. Read, most recently a member of the NerdWallet investigations team, spent more than two [...]

The new publisher of the Los Angeles Times, Mark H. Willes, has reassured his newspaper staff that he will not lose sight of the quality of the news and writing as he focuses more on advertising and circulation to boost revenues. New Yorker magazine and the New York Times had both run articles warning industry members of the decline in reporting integrity as newspapers move into closer relationships with their own business departments.

Los Angeles Times photographer Al Schaben took the photographs of the chase scene of O.J. Simpson's white Ford Bronco down a Los Angeles, CA freeway before his arrest but another Times photographer Larry Ho was mistakenly given credit for the photographs because he took pictures of Simpson at the police station. Schaben got his degree from the University of Nebraska and worked as a student intern at the Detroit Free Press before he began his professional career at the Los Angeles Times., THE RADIO REPORTS crackled with misinformation O.J. Simpson was giving himself up. O.J. Simpson has disappeared. O.J. Simpson has killed himself. every journalist in Los Angeles was looking him. Al [...]

Los Angeles Times editor C. Shelby Coffey III believes his newspaper is headed for good times, despite economic problems in Southern Calif. The paper had to lay off a number of employees in recent years, but remains an industry leader with four different daily edition and an emphasis on minority hiring. He is proud of the paper's success in bringing minorities and women into management, the paper's coverage of LA's earthquake and fires, and the improved columns, series, special sections, and other innovations that have taken place in recent years.

Los Angeles Times publisher Dick Schlosberg has been running for enjoyment since 1978 and his filled 15 diaries with his running logs. He makes time to run despite a busy schedule filled with travel, business meetings and social activities., Sitting at a conference table covered with newspapers, Dick Schlosberg, the dynamic new publisher of the Los Angeles Times, opens the first of five papers he'll peruse before his workday [...]

Jack Nelson's newly published book, 'Terror in the Night: The Klan's Campaign Against the Jews,' tells in-depth about the ambush of a Klan member and his girl friend when they were planting a bomb at the home of a Jewish community leader. While the journalist was the Los Angeles Times' bureau chief in Atlanta, GA, he wrote a controversial article on this incident, including information about the informants who helped local police and the FBI. Nelson was criticized by the Jewish community, the police and the FBI for publishing the story. Unanswered questions about the event led Nelson to write the book., IN 1970, THE Los Angeles Times published a 6,000-word article by Jack Nelson about an FBI ambush of Ku Klux Klan leaders in Mississippi. But Nelson has only just finished [...]

Nicholas Goldberg has been named editorial page editor at the Los Angeles Times. He assumes his new duties on Sept. 28. Previously, Goldberg was deputy editor of the editorial pages. [...]

The Los Angeles Times named Penn Jones publisher of LA, the Los Angeles Times Magazine, which was re-tooled, re-named and switched to monthly publication in September. 'As publisher, Jones will [...]

Los Angeles Times Washington Bureau Chief Doyle McManus is leaving his post to become a Times Op-Ed columnist, the paper revealed in a release today. 'McManus joined The Times in [...]

Alice Short has been named an assistant managing editor at the Los Angeles Times, where she will oversee the Travel, Food, Health, Home and Image sections. She most recently served [...]

Kevin Roderick at his popular www.LAobserved blog reported Monday on major new newsroom cuts at the Los Angeles Times -- and rumors that longtime associ Leo Wollinsky was on the [...]

Former Los Angeles Times Editorial Pages Editor James Newton, who resigned in June to write a book, is returning, according to a memo from recently appointed Publisher Eddy Hartenstein. The [...]

When McClatchy's Tom Lasseter, who had been honored for his reporting in Iraq, spent most of December 2006 in Lebanon covering the Shiite-Sunni street violence there, one of his top [...]

In a lengthy blog entry at The Huffington Post on Monday, Nancy Cleeland, who won a Pulitzer at the Los Angeles Times in 2004 related to Wal-Mart's labor policies, explained [...]

A longtime Los Angeles Times columnist has been pressured to take a buyout, according to an LAObserved.com story. The piece reprinted an e-mail Al Martinez sent late Wednesday afternoon to [...]

Los Angeles Times Sportswriter Mike Penner revealed today that he plans to undergo a sex change, returning in several weeks living as a woman. In a column today, the 23-year [...]

In an emailed memo to staff yesterday, Los Angeles Times Publisher David Hiller gave his 'take' on the Tribune Company's new owner, Sam Zell, calling him a 'smart, independent thinker, [...]

Andres Martinez, who quit yesterday as editorial page editor at the Los Angeles Times in the wake of what the popular LAObserved.com has dubbed 'Grazergate, ' has sent a lengthy [...]

On Tuesday, PBS repeated in some cities its recent airing of the episode in the 'Frontline' series on the media that focused on the recent troubles at the Los Angeles [...]

The ballroom crowd applauded furiously as Dean Baquet stepped back from the podium, soaking up the response he'd received following one of the most important newspaper industry speeches of the [...]

By the morning of July 20th, after months of gossip, everyone in the third-floor newsroom of the Los Angeles Times knew that John S. Carroll, who had been the newspaper's [...]

CALIFORNIA Dean Baquet has been named executive vice president and editor of the Los Angeles Times. Baquet, 48, most recently served as managing editor. Baquet came to the West Coast [...]

ALABAMA Chuck Bodiford has been appointed publisher of the Atmore Advance and The Escambia Advertiser, and president of Atmore Newspapers Inc. Bodiford has been circulation director of the Advance and [...]

WEST VIRGINIA Geri Ferrara has been named editor of The Dominion Post in Morgantown. Ferrara, 49, gained 20 years of experience in various capacities at The (Vineland, N.J.) Daily Journal, [...]

Digging all that Subterranean News 'I'm looking for stories where people are wrestling with ambiguous issues,' the Los Angeles Times' Barry Siegel, 52, explains on the afternoon he won the [...]

The editor who helped the Los Angeles Times implementethical guidelines following the Staples Center controversy will be leaving for a Pennsylvania newspaper. Ardith Hilliard has been named vice president and [...]

IDAHO Margaret Buchanan, president and publisher of The Idaho Statesman in Boise, has been named vice president for parent Gannett Co. Inc.'s Pacific Newspaper Group. She retains her titles at [...]

Michael Parks, former editor of the Los Angeles Times who came under fire last year with former Publisher Kathryn Downing over an ethics controversy, has found a new job. This [...]

A top editor at the Los Angeles Times is denying rumors layoffs are pending at the Southern California daily. Deputy Managing Editor Leo Wolinsky told E&P that while the L.A. [...]

LOS ANGELES--A little known fact about World Press Photo of the Year winner Lara Jo Regan is that she is also the creator and photographer of Mr. Winkle, a too-cute-to-be-true [...]

Bush hires 'L.A. Times' photographer The Los Angeles Times didn't make an endorsement for president, and it doesn't endorse a photographer moonlighting for the White House. General-assignment photographer Paul Morse [...]

Optimism abounds at the 'Los Angeles Times,' with scandal behind it and a new owner. But might recent events foretell another rough patch? It's just an office, but sometimes small [...]

Last week marked another change in the masthead at the Los Angeles Times, but the shuffling of titles isn't over yet. Dean Baquet was formally installed as the newspaper's new [...]

The Los Angeles Times, in a dramatic move, reached outside the paper to raid The New York Times of its highly regarded national editor, Dean P. Baquet, 43. Last week, [...]

Cornelius Adolphus Scott 92, Died May 7 former publisher and editor of the Atlanta daily world For 63 years, Scott led the Daily World, the black paper whose purpose, he [...]