Is L.A. News Black and White and Dead All Over?
The idea had success written all over it. In 2011, news organizations throughout Southern California were shedding reporters and cutting coverage in the face of faltering finances. Sensing an...
View ArticleMy L.A. Life Through Newspapers
My earliest memory is of the evening of March 10, 1933. Our little family was having dinner: father, mother, me, and baby brother Raul, who was sitting in his high chair. Shortly before 6 p.m., the...
View ArticleYour Local L.A. Newspaper Feels Your Pain
The early 21st century has not been kind to newspapers in Southern California. But in an era of technological change and in a city of great demographic change, what kind of newspaper does L.A. deserve?...
View Article‘Orange County Register’ and ‘Los Angeles Register’ Publisher Aaron Kushner
Aaron Kushner is the publisher of the Orange County Register and the new Los Angeles Register. A Georgia native, he previously was founder and CEO of MyMove.com and CEO of Marian Heath Greeting Cards....
View ArticleCal Poly Pomona’s Michael Woo
Michael Woo is the dean of the College of Environmental Design at Cal Poly Pomona. An urban planner, he served on the Los Angeles City Council for eight years and ran for mayor of Los Angeles in 1993....
View ArticleIs Fox News the Smartest Journalism Ever?
Lamenting the decline of journalism is a familiar trope of our media culture. Since a great wave of tabloid TV shows emerged in the late-1980s and cable news gained influence in the 2000s, there has...
View ArticleBlogs Are Not Dead
I started my first blog 15 years ago, about the same time Andrew Sullivan embraced the form. Sullivan’s highly publicized decision to end his blog doesn’t surprise me, but it is not the “end of...
View ArticleI’m Happy Sheldon Adelson Wants to Own a Newspaper
There is good news and bad news to report from the world of those whose business it is to relay the news. The good news is that the family of Sheldon Adelson, the casino-owning billionaire, bought the...
View ArticleA Cultural Touchstone Fends off the End of an Era
Long before I was the English editor of The Rafu Shimpo—the newspaper that covers Japanese-American communities up and down the Pacific Coast and other Japanese-American hubs like Denver, New York, and...
View ArticleHow Three Texas Newspapers Manufactured Three Competing Images of Immigrants
In August 1930, an editorial writer for the largest newspaper chain on Earth proclaimed: “THE FARMER rids his barn of rats, his hen-house of weasels … the government of the United States should clean...
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