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SoCal Sports Observed (Free subscription) | 11/23/2008
... coverage over the past four months have just received the same email response from Times Editor Russ Stanton. The message includes the following information: “I am pleased to announce that Times Staff Writer Chris Barton is taking over the jazz beat at the Los Angeles Times. He reviewed the Marsalis/McCoy Turner/Mehldau show at the Greek Theatre on Sunday night.” (Stanton was...
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SoCal Sports Observed (Free subscription) | 11/15/2008
... all of what he wanted. Abrams, fresh from a visit to Times publisher Eddy Hartenstein and editor Russ Stanton, said the Times has a lot of baggage and a lot of friction and they will get through it. The paper, he said at another point, is not there but will get there. In a year, it will be a pretty hot newspaper, he said. The Times crew is working at it but it is hard....
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Patterico's Pontifications (Free subscription) | 11/13/2008
... Times is part of Times Media Group but has no connection to the new venture , said Times Editor Russ Stanton. “We will treat ZetaBid like any other real estate entity from a coverage standpoint,” Stanton said. So far, the paper appears to be living up to the pledge of objective coverage; an October 5 story was pointedly critical of such online services. But if the paper is...
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Los Angeles (Free subscription) | 11/12/2008
Assistant national editor Millie Quan will become the new Column One editor at the Los Angeles Times, not the senior editor in Features as announced in August. Of course, the editor who announced it then is gone. This morning's memo from Russ Stanton: From: Stanton, Russ Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2008 8:50 AM To: yyeditall Subject: Millie Quan, Senior Editor/Enterprise...
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SoCal Sports Observed (Free subscription) | 11/12/2008
Assistant national editor Millie Quan will become the new Column One editor at the Los Angeles Times, not the senior editor in Features as . Of course, the editor who announced it then . This morning's memo from Russ Stanton:
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MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | 11/07/2008
Russ Stanton sent the following memo to staffers today, explaining some changes. Not mentioned in the following note is the fact that former Washington bureau chief Doyle McManus is officially an op-ed columnist in DC. We're still not clear what Tom McCarthy , his #2, does. Stay tuned... Colleagues: As you have seen, the company is making some changes to the operations of our Washington...
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SoCal Sports Observed (Free subscription) | 11/07/2008
As , Tribune just that it's merging the Washington bureaus of the Los Angeles Times and its other papers and placing the bureau under Cissy Baker, vice president/news operations for Tribune Broadcasting since 2003. Longtime LAT bureau chief Doyle McManus becomes an Op-Ed columnist for the Times. Here's a cheerleading memo from Times editor Russ Stanton and the news on McManus from Jim...
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Everyday Ethics (Free subscription) | 10/29/2008
Los Angeles Times John McCain 's campaign accuses the Los Angeles Times of "intentionally suppressing" a videotape it obtained of a 2003 banquet where Barack Obama spoke of his friendship with Rashid Khalidi , a leading Palestinian scholar and activist. Editor Russ Stanton says: "The Los Angeles Times did not publish the videotape because it was provided to us by a confidential source...
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Right Voices (Free subscription) | 10/29/2008
Background info was posted here. As of today, this is the status: “The Los Angeles Times did not publish the videotape because it was provided to us by a confidential source who did so on the condition that we not release it,” said the newspaper’s editor, Russ Stanton. “The Times keeps its promises to sources.” Why [...]
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NixGuy.com (Free subscription) | 10/29/2008
Filed under: Barack Obama , 2008 President , Investigations , Media The LA Times Speaks : "The Los Angeles Times did not publish the videotape because it was provided to us by a confidential source who did so on the condition that we not release it," said the newspaper's editor, Russ Stanton. "The Times keeps its promises to sources." Jamie Gold, the newspaper's readers' representative,...
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SoCal Sports Observed (Free subscription) | 10/27/2008
This morning's email memo from editor Russ Stanton on layoffs in the Los Angeles Times newsroom: From: Stanton, Russ To: yyeditall Sent: Mon Oct 27...
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Paidcontent (Free subscription) | 10/27/2008
Now they're cutting sinew, there's nothing left but bone… The Los Angeles Times is cutting 75 newsroom jobs, or 10 percent of its news staff, Reuters reported . The layoffs follow a comparable number of cuts that the Tribune Company newspaper made on its business side last week, editor Russ Stanton told employees in an e-mail message. He attributed the cuts to the worsening economic...
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MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | 10/27/2008
The news is bad from coast-to-coast. FishbowlLA is reporting that the deep cuts taking place at Tribune Co. papers have struck once again. L.A. Times EIC Russ Stanton announced via email this morning that the paper is laying off 75 people from editorial, about 10% of their total staff. The growing economic downturn is forcing us to undergo another round of job reductions and cost cuts....
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The New York Observer (Free subscription) | 10/27/2008
Los Angeles Times staffers have not been blessed with the same good news that the New York Times newsroom received today. As rumored, Russ Stanton, editor of The Los Angeles Times , announced this morning that 75 people are being laid off. It's the third round of job cuts for the paper this year , and will lower the newsroom head count to about 650 people. Their newsroom had 1,200 people...
