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The New York Times Travel section does Long Beach: "While the city’s maritime character remains, its rough edges have been smoothed in recent years — the downtown waterfront transformed by ...

When Daryl Gates ran the LAPD from 1978 to 1992 he also ran a worldwide political spying operation. And he lavished time on it, sometimes several hours each day, including all the dossiers and reports ...

News editor Alan Mittelstaedt is out and controversial columnist Jill Stewart is coming in to edit local news coverage. Mittelstaedt pushed the recent story on Miguel Contreras's death and has ...

Wednesday was the last day of work for many of the close to 80 newsroom staffers who are leaving the Los Angeles Times, with farewell gatherings and toasts in several departments. "Hysterical," is how ...

Now this is Hollywood, and a place where some people will do anything to promote anything. So it could be just that: a promo for something yet to be revealed. But it seems that on Page A7 of Monday's ...

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Pepy's Galley diner and Phil Yoakums Bowling supply that have enjoyed 40 plus years of time at the Mar Vista Bowling Alley have been given 30 days notice to vacate. There are thousands of supporters ...

Al Jazeera on Wednesday completed a deal to take over Al Gore's seven-year-old Current TV, which is based in San Francisco. A new channel, Al Jazeera America, will be based in New York, the NYT says.

A little bit different view of the LA Times building. If you had any doubts that the Los Angeles Times newsrooms (all of them) are consumed with one topic right now — whether to take the buyout or ...

Tracy Weber, a former reporter for the L.A. Times now at ProPublica, writes today that in 2003 she was reluctantly pulled off her investigation into the "Killer King" hospital — she won a Pulitzer for ...

The Online Journalism Review fell off my radar, and I suspect that of other news types, a few years ago. Now USC Annenberg has given it a new look and a new view of its role.