{"id":3429,"date":"2008-07-10T12:24:33","date_gmt":"2008-07-10T20:24:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=3429"},"modified":"2008-07-10T12:24:33","modified_gmt":"2008-07-10T20:24:33","slug":"the-basic-problem-with-the-la-times-trying-to-sell-a-national-paper-locally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=3429","title":{"rendered":"The Basic Problem With The LA Times &#8212; Trying To Sell A National Paper Locally"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.contentbridges.com\/2008\/07\/is-the-la-times.html\">From Content Bridges<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>When John [Carroll] and Dean [Baquet, then managing editor, now back at the New York Times] took over, they severely curtailed local reporting. They closed down most of the local zoned offices. They discontinued the Metro section and renamed it California. They eliminated a secondary zoned news insert produced by newer, less expensive journalists.<\/p>\n<p>They threw the resources instead into national and foreign coverage.<\/p>\n<p>At exactly the same moment, over those same years, [Publisher] John Puerner&#8217;s crew was whacking circulation north and south and east of L.A. They thought it was<br \/>\ntoo expensive. They abandoned any pretense of a national edition.<\/p>\n<p>So with all eyes wide open, the business model and circulation model became<br \/>\nLA-centric and the editorial model became national. The LA Times was trying to sell it&#8217;s national-focused newspaper locally only.<\/p>\n<p>The New York Times knows better&#8230;.It is selling a national newspaper nationally.<\/p>\n<p>The LA Times tried to sell a national newspaper locally only.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Content Bridges: When John [Carroll] and Dean [Baquet, then managing editor, now back at the New York Times] took over, they severely curtailed local reporting. They closed down most of the local zoned offices. They discontinued the Metro section &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=3429\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[10249,10250,10248,2123,3447,29894],"class_list":["post-3429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-los-angeles-times","tag-circulation-model","tag-editorial-model","tag-john-puerner","tag-la-times","tag-metro-section","tag-new-york-times"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3429\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}