11 Facts About The Los Angeles Times

1. One of The Los Angeles Times features is "Column One", a feature that appears daily on the front page to the left-hand side.

2. The Los Angeles Times has come 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 the Sunday edition.

3. The Los Angeles 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.

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

5. On July 10, 2007, The Los Angeles Times launched a local Metromix site targeting live entertainment for young adults.

6. The Los Angeles Times's reported daily circulation in October 2010 was 600,449, down from a peak of 1,225,189 daily and 1,514,096 Sunday in April 1990.

7. The Los Angeles Times announced seventy job cuts in news and editorial, or a 10 percent cut in payroll.

8. The Los Angeles Times put up for sale the company's 25 percent interest in Comcast SportsNet Chicago.

9. Two days in 2005, The Los Angeles Times experimented with Wikitorial, the first Wiki by a major news organization to allow readers to combine forces to produce their own editorial pieces.

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

11. The Los Angeles Times sought to remake the paper in the model of the nation's most respected newspapers, notably The New York Times and The Washington Post.