Cal Poly Pomona’s Michael Woo

The Former L.A. City Councilman on What It Would Take to Get Him Back Into Electoral Politics and Why He Keeps Quiet in Elevators

Michael Woo is the dean of the College of Environmental Design at Cal Poly Pomona. An urban planner, he served on the Los Angeles City Council for eight years and ran for mayor of Los Angeles in 1993. Before participating in a panel on the future of L.A.’s newspapers, he explained why it’s never a good idea to talk in an elevator and offered a tale of the perils of ordering egg whites in Portland in the Zócalo green room.

May 13, 2014

‘Orange County Register’ and ‘Los Angeles Register’ Publisher Aaron Kushner

There’s No Gig Stranger Than Running a Newspaper (Says a Former Greeting Card Magnate)

April 30, 2014

Aaron Kushner is the publisher of the Orange County Register and the new Los Angeles Register. A Georgia native, he previously was founder and CEO of MyMove.com and CEO of …

Your Local L.A. Newspaper Feels Your Pain

On Keeping Your Ears Open to the Concerns of ‘Regular People,’ Giving the Customers More, and a Newspaper’s Civic Duty

by Sarah Rothbard | March 11, 2014

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 …

My L.A. Life Through Newspapers

Living Through Earthquakes, World War II, and the Black Dahlia, One Headline at a Time

By Manuel H. Rodriguez | March 10, 2014

My earliest memory is of the evening of March 10, 1933. Our little family was having dinner: father, mother, me, and baby brother Raul, who was sitting in his high …

Is L.A. News Black and White and Dead All Over?

The Path to Reinventing News in Southern California Is Littered with the Bodies of Good Ideas

by Leo C. Wolinsky | March 6, 2014

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 …

Is Rupert Murdoch As Influential As You Think? More So.

NPR’s David Folkenflik Assesses the Career and Legacy of Australia’s Media Titan

by Sarah Rothbard | November 12, 2013

For years, Rupert Murdoch has been “the most influential and important media figure in the English-speaking world,” according to National Public Radio media correspondent David Folkenflik, author of Murdoch’s World: …

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