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Category Archives: Los Angeles Times
Kevin Roderick and the Passage from Newspaper City to Platform City
Kevin Roderick (b. 1953) belongs to the transitional generation of American metropolitan journalists who carried the institutional habits of twentieth-century newspaper work into the fragmented digital order that emerged after 2000. His career tracks three developments at once: the decline … Continue reading
Posted in Journalism, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Times
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Destabilizing Truths That Might Rock LA
Gemini says: Los Angeles serves as a primary hub for the ruling triumvirate of the Democratic Party, big tech, and academia. Because the city functions as a global center for cultural and moral production, it maintains a high-status environment where … Continue reading
Posted in Journalism, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Times
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The most amazing thing to me is not that Ross Levinsohn (as a sales guy) would say and do the things he did, but that the LAT newsroom is both so sensitive and so gay
Read the embedded tweets. The LA Times has about the most queer newsroom in the country, hence the hyperbolic super-sensitivity to this story. And if the Times reporters are so awesome, how come they didn’t have this story? If I … Continue reading
Posted in Harassment, Los Angeles Times
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How The LA Times Plays Games With Race
David Cole Stein writes: I’ll give you a few genuine examples of how the media plays games with race, using my hometown paper of record, the L.A. Times (the paper with the fourth-largest circulation in the U.S.), as a case … Continue reading
Posted in Los Angeles, Los Angeles Times, Race, Rape
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The Jewish Federation Of Los Angeles Chose To Base Its Hunger Campaign On A Lie
For the past few months, the Jewish Federation has campaigned around Los Angeles that one out of eight people in the city are hungry. It’s a big fat lie, but that hasn’t stopped synagogues, including Orthodox ones, from embracing the … Continue reading
Posted in Jewish Federation, Jews, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Times
Tagged emergency food relief, heterosexual aids, high holy days, hunger campaign, jewish federation of greater los angeles, jewish federation of los angeles, liberal jews, reusable shopping bags, tom vilsack, visible target
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I Interview William Lobdell, Author Of The New Smash Hit ‘Losing My Religion: How I Lost My Faith Reporting on Religion in America-and Found Unexpected Peace’
I talk to Bill (WilliamLobdell.com) by phone Sunday afternoon. Bill: "I thought the two (religion and journalism) were intertwined. I thought God’s calling for me was to be a religion writer." Luke: "People do feel called to journalism. There is … Continue reading
Posted in Journalism, Los Angeles Times, Religion
Tagged losing my religion, many evangelical christians, religion in america, religion writer, terrible hours, unexpected peace, weird animals, william lobdell
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My First Time At The Los Angeles Times
A month ago, I scheduled a dinner with a childhood friend from Australia who was coming through town for a couple of days. Then I got Tony Pierce‘s invite to a blogger gathering at the LA Times. I’ve never been … Continue reading
Posted in Blogging, Journalism, Los Angeles Times
Tagged andrew malcolm, bakotopia, eric richardson, janine warner, peter viles, sheilas
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Ex-LAT Reporters Sue Sam Zell
ERSNews.com has posted the 112 page lawsuit. Kevin Roderick writes: I’m told that lawyers representing current and former Los Angeles Times newsroom staffers are filing a class-action federal lawsuit against Sam Zell and Tribune this morning in Los Angeles, alleging … Continue reading
Posted in Los Angeles Times
Tagged employee owned company, employee stock ownership, employee stock ownership plan, legal affairs writer, myron levin, Sam Zell
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