35 Facts About LA Times

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Los Angeles Times is a daily newspaper that started publishing in Los Angeles in 1881 and is based in the adjacent suburb of El Segundo.

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LA Times was first published on December 4, 1881, as the Los Angeles Daily LA Times, under the direction of Nathan Cole Jr.

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3.

LA Times'storian Kevin Starr wrote that Otis was a businessman "capable of manipulating the entire apparatus of politics and public opinion for his own enrichment".

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4.

Efforts of the LA Times to fight local unions led to the bombing of its headquarters on October 1, 1910, killing twenty-one people.

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5.

Otis fastened a bronze eagle on top of a high frieze of the new LA Times headquarters building designed by Gordon Kaufmann, proclaiming anew the credo written by his wife, Eliza: "Stand Fast, Stand Firm, Stand Sure, Stand True".

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In 1935, the newspaper moved to a new, landmark Art Deco building, the Los Angeles LA Times Building, to which the newspaper would add other facilities until taking up the entire city block between Spring, Broadway, First and Second streets, which came to be known as LA Times Mirror Square and would house the paper until 2018.

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7.

LA Times sought to remake the paper in the model of the nation's most respected newspapers, such as The New York Times and The Washington Post.

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8.

LA Times toned down the unyielding conservatism that had characterized the paper over the years, adopting a much more centrist editorial stance.

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Los Angeles LA Times was beset in the first decade of the 21st century by a change in ownership, a bankruptcy, a rapid succession of editors, reductions in staff, decreases in paid circulation, the need to increase its Web presence, and a series of controversies.

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10.

LA Times put up for sale the company's 25 percent interest in Comcast SportsNet Chicago.

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11.

The LA Times announced seventy job cuts in news and editorial or a 10 percent cut in payroll.

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12.

On this subject, the Los Angeles LA Times reported with foresight: "For the 'funemployed, ' unemployment is welcome.

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13.

LA Times's speculated that the paper's revenue shortfall could be reversed by expanding coverage of economic justice topics, which she believed were increasingly relevant to Southern California; she cited the paper's attempted hiring of a "celebrity justice reporter" as an example of the wrong approach.

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14.

LA Times closed its San Fernando Valley printing plant in early 2006, leaving press operations to the Olympic plant and to Orange County.

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15.

In December 2006, a team of LA Times reporters delivered management with a critique of the paper's online news efforts known as the Spring Street Project.

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16.

On July 10, 2007, LA Times launched a local Metromix site targeting live entertainment for young adults.

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17.

In 2009, the LA Times shut down Metromix and replaced it with Brand X, a blog site and free weekly tabloid targeting young, social networking readers.

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18.

In May 2018, the LA Times blocked access to its online edition from most of Europe because of the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation.

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19.

LA Times's role was controversial, for he forced writers to take a more decisive stance on issues.

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20.

LA Times drew fire for a last-minute story before the 2003 California recall election alleging that gubernatorial candidate Arnold Schwarzenegger groped scores of women during his movie career.

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21.

Columnist Jill Stewart wrote on the American Reporter website that the LA Times did not do a story on allegations that former Governor Gray Davis had verbally and physically abused women in his office, and that the Schwarzenegger story relied on a number of anonymous sources.

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22.

LA Times's said that in the case of the Davis allegations, the Times decided against printing the Davis story because of its reliance on anonymous sources.

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23.

The American Society of Newspaper Editors said that the LA Times lost more than 10, 000 subscribers because of the negative publicity surrounding the Schwarzenegger article.

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24.

LA Times came under controversy for its decision to drop the weekday edition of the Garfield comic strip in 2005, in favor of a hipper comic strip Brevity, while retaining it in the Sunday edition.

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25.

In November 2017, Walt Disney Studios blacklisted the LA Times from attending press screenings of its films, in retaliation for September 2017 reportage by the paper on Disney's political influence in the Anaheim area.

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26.

LA Times considered the coverage to be "biased and inaccurate".

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27.

Between 1891 and 1895, the LA Times issued a similar Midsummer Number, the first one with the theme "The Land and Its Fruits".

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28.

One of the LA Times features was "Column One", a feature that appeared daily on the front page to the left-hand side.

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29.

From 2000 to 2012, the LA Times published the Los Angeles LA Times Magazine, which started as a weekly and then became a monthly supplement.

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30.

In 1996, the LA Times started the annual Los Angeles LA Times Festival of Books, in association with the University of California, Los Angeles.

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31.

From 1957 to 1987, the LA Times sponsored the Los Angeles LA Times Grand Prix that was held over at the Riverside International Raceway in Moreno Valley, California.

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32.

LA Times-Mirror Company was a founding owner of television station KTTV in Los Angeles, which opened in January 1949.

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33.

LA Times-Mirror purchased a former motion picture studio, Nassour Studios, in Hollywood in 1950, which was then used to consolidate KTTV's operations.

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34.

LA Times-Mirror Broadcasting later acquired KTBC-TV in Austin, Texas in 1973; and in 1980 purchased a group of stations owned by Newhouse Newspapers: WAPI-TV in Birmingham, Alabama; KTVI in St Louis; WSYR-TV (now WSTM-TV) in Syracuse, New York and its satellite station WSYE-TV (now WETM-TV) in Elmira, New York; and WTPA-TV (now WHTM-TV) in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

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LA Times entered the field of cable television, servicing the Phoenix and San Diego areas, amongst others.

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