While Sam Zell's biggest newspapers, the Chicago Tribune and Los Angeles Times, made history endorsing a Democrat, Barack Obama, this year, he has be...
Steve Miller | Posted 11.30.2008 | Home
Now on the precipice of possibly winning the presidency, Barack Obama can rightfully say that newer technologies catapulted him into the White House.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 11.28.2008 | Media
Over at the Los Angeles Times, Maeve Reston offers up her account of that time she asked John McCain a question about Viagara and officially caused th...
Steve Parker | Posted 11.12.2008 | Business
If the Detroit Three were to merge into one company, ownership shared with the American people, it could benefit everyone; the carmakers, their dealers and their customers
Variety | Cynthia Littleton | Posted 11.07.2008 | Media
The ax is still swinging at the Los Angeles Times. Word spread in journo circles on Monday that the newspaper is looking at axing another 75 editoria...
Portfolio | Jeff Bercovici | Posted 10.17.2008 | Media
It would be hard to argue that Sam Zell really knows his way around the newspaper business. But does his floundering constitute grounds for legal acti...
Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 10.07.2008 | Media
The LAT Book Blog, "Jacket Copy," has a great little post on Sarah Palin-as-literary-character. Novelist Seth Greenland, examing Palin through a lite...
Steve Parker | Posted 09.29.2008 | Style
America's only US-born Formula One World Champion of Driving, Phil Hill, died August 28th in a Salinas, CA, hospital as a result of respiratory proble...
Larry Gellman | Posted 09.22.2008 | Politics
When it comes to Barack Obama, the news media does its job with a vengeance. When Obama goes to Germany and draws a crowd of 200,000 they ask if he's ...
Gawker | Hamilton Nolan | Posted 09.22.2008 | Media
o Andres Martinez, the former LA Times editorial page editor who just sued his former flack girlfriend for her stunning betrayals of his confidence? M...
AP | Posted 09.16.2008 | Media
LOS ANGELES — Eddy Hartenstein, a former head of DirecTV, will become publisher of the Los Angeles Times, the newspaper reported Saturday. Hart...
New York Observer | John Koblin | Posted 08.06.2008 | Media
Shortly after a magnitude-5.8 earthquake hit Los Angeles this afternoon, the L.A. Times Web site went down. Managing editor John Arthur explained in a...
Matt Littman | Posted 08.02.2008 | Politics
A couple of weeks ago, Bozo the Clown died. But Bozell the Clown still lives among us, defaming the good name of clowns everywhere by tormenting children and families around our country.
Patricia Zohn | Posted 07.25.2008 | Media
Why the avalanche of ranting about boomers? Is it because we are at the very apex of population demographic and we've reached the tipping point? Or are there other more subtle shifts at play?
AP | Posted 07.22.2008 | Media
NEW YORK — The Los Angeles Times says publisher David Hiller has resigned after 21 months at the helm of Tribune Co.'s largest paper. The news ...
Marty Kaplan | Posted 07.22.2008 | Media
What's the difference between Sam Zell's Los Angeles Times and Sam's Bagels on Los Angeles' Larchmont Boulevard? None, if you take Mr. Zell's words to heart.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 07.21.2008 | Politics
It would appear that the Los Angeles Times came to the end of the week without fulfilling their quota for empty-headed Broderism, so today we've got a...
Radar | Posted 07.10.2008 | Media
The Los Angeles Times announced 150 editorial layoffs--on both print and Web, according to a memo just sent by Russ Stanton. The layoffs will be compl...
Chicago Tribune | Robert Manor and Phil Rosenthal | Posted 07.04.2008 | Media
Tribune Tower, the neo-Gothic landmark that adorns Michigan Avenue near the Chicago River, is on the market. Tribune Co. Chairman and Chief Executive...
Ryan Rivera | Posted 06.11.2008 | Home
With a new poll finding 63 percent of Americans see gay marriage as a "strictly private" decision out of bounds for government regulation, John McCain's recently reiterated position that marriage should be between one man and one woman puts him in the minority.
Ryan Rivera | Posted 05.28.2008 | Home
The Calif. court ruling to "destroy the man-woman definition of marriage" is akin to Nazis "following orders to gas the Jews?" Really? That's the language of a major campaign presently underway to sway Calif. judges.
Tom Alderman | Posted 04.25.2008 | Media
Citizen reporters provide independent, accurate, reliable information that the traditional media doesn't provide, goes the argument. Independent? Perhaps. Accurate and reliable? Can't be sure, say concerned professionals.
Michael Russnow | Posted 01.10.2009 | Entertainment
Though Kerr was 86 and had been out of the public eye for a number of years, her film and stage career, spanning four and a half decades, had secured her legendary status in motion picture history.
AP | Posted 04.03.2008 | Media
LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles Times apologized for using apparently fabricated documents in a story implying that a 1994 assault on Tupac Shakur...
Portfolio | Jeff Bercovici | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media
Writing in the Los Angeles Times last week, Asra Nomani, a former Wall Street Journal reporter and People contributor, argued that the time has come f...
Editor and Publisher | Joe Strupp | Posted 12.03.2008 | Chicago