During 34 years at the Los Angeles Times, Sandy Banks has been a reporter, editor, columnist, editorial writer, and director of the newspaper’s internship program. Before participating in a panel on the future of L.A. newspapers, she talked about a journalism job that was so bad it made covering a murder good, and the most underrated thing about life in the San Fernando Valley in the Zócalo green room.
Kurt Streeter is a reporter at the Los Angeles Times, where has been a feature writer, covered transportation and crime, written a column for the sports section, and currently covers …
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 …
Shriveling advertising revenue, circulation death spirals, rounds of layoffs, bankruptcies—it’s hard to read a story about the newspaper industry in Southern California these days that isn’t a dirge of doom …
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 opportunity to …
Beth Shuster is education editor of the Los Angeles Times. Before moderating a panel on the future of school discipline, she named her favorite freeway, explained why her most frequently …
