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The Los Angeles Times is an American daily newspaper that began publishing in Los Angeles, California, in 1881. [3] Based in the Greater Los Angeles city of El Segundo since 2018, [4] it is the sixth-largest newspaper in the nation and the largest in the Western United States with a print circulation of 118,760.
The publisher of the Los Angeles Times since June 16, 2018, has been Patrick Soon-Shiong, who purchased the newspaper from the Tribune Company of Chicago. Soon-Shiong replaced Ross Levinsohn, who was appointed to the position in August of 2017 following the firing of publisher Davan Maharaj. [1]
The Times-Mirror Company was a founding owner of television station KTTV in Los Angeles, which opened in January 1949. It became that station's sole owner in 1951, after re-acquiring the minority shares it had sold to CBS in 1948.
LA Times Owner Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong has expressed regret over his paper's past endorsement of Mayor Karen Bass, doubling down on his prior comments on how "competence matters."
First issue of a Los Angeles Times suburban section, published on April 6, 1952. The Los Angeles Times suburban sections or zone sections were printed between 1952 and 2001 as adjuncts to the main newspaper to cover the news of and sell advertising space in various parts of Southern California that the Times considered to be in the prime part of its circulation area.
The joint service was formed in 1962 and was the product of discussions between the two newspapers' well-known publishers, Otis Chandler and Philip Graham. [3] [4] Chandler and Graham considered sharing foreign correspondents, as both were expanding foreign coverage to compete with the New York Times; instead they decided to set up a joint news service.
David Lazarus has written pieces for Los Angeles Times about consumer affairs and business topics including YouTube, [4] AT&T [5] and BMW-customer service issues. [6]Before joining the LA Times staff in 2007, Lazarus worked as a columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle and a nightly talk radio host for San Francisco's KGO Radio. [7]
Under former Sheriff Alex Villanueva, detectives secretly investigated and urged the state attorney general to prosecute a Los Angeles Times reporter who wrote on a leaked list of problem deputies.