members of mariachi varitas de harvard believe they are the first and only 100 undergraduate student mariachi in the east coast. here they are bigger... click here for the full article......
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today while browsing the net i stumble an interesting post saturday shorts . kevin roderick bio email. news of los angeles a little from here a little from there district attorney steve cooleys office is looking into possible lobbying violations by former l.a la observed saturday shorts related posts la observed news and media shorts interesting post i find ......
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because mayor antonio villaraigosa has filed to run for reelection his office says they cant send the media any more press releases with his name... click here for the full article......
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former assembly speaker fabian naaez about to be termed out of the legislative high life will join mercury public affairs llc as partner and cochair.... click here for the full article......
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los angeles journalist daniel hernandez on extended book research in mexico city makes his video debut on current tv with a story from the neighborhood... click here for the full article......
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craig newmark founder of craigslist got interviewed about the future of journalism in the la times. lets not forget that newspapers are struggling in part because of the ad revenue lost to craigslist. not that we dont love the list...because we do. heres part of the interview after huffington post is mentioned jon healey thats a great business mode......
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sam zell is getting credit from his critics for telling it like it is in this interview with aconda nast portfolio at quadrangle groups foursquare media conference . the famously combative tribune co. ceo reinforces remarks hes been making all year about treating newspapers like businesses. that means questioning everything from sales incentives to the importance of journalism pri......
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mirthala salinas tells la opinian that she has adjusted to her new job as the morning host at spanishlanguage am 690 is past that whole... click here for the full article......
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the pasadena online dating service has reached a settlement with the new jersey ags office over a discrimination lawsuit the company faces a similar claim in california. the upshot is that eharmony will launch a samesex matching service called compatible partners which will be marketed in gay and lesbian media outlets. users of eharmony.com will not be matched with users of the ......
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as americas newspapers shrink and shed staff says the new york times and broadcast news outlets sink in the ratings a new kind of webbased news operation has arisen in several cities forcing the papers to follow the stories they uncover. go check out the voice of san diego . some columnists are saying it could be the future of los angeles journalis......
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... by deanne stillman the 30000 wild horses on death row are nearly out of appeals. they were condemned by the government accounting office just in time for veterans day a profoundly cynical act when you consider that countless wild horses perished after being taken from the range and serving in the civil war our frontier wars and world war i. the announcement concluded a dark cycl......
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this question comes up in nearly every conversation about the economist . why dont we have bylines and will we ever change it is one of those quaint eccentricities about us that people either love or hate or love to hate but at least they know about it. at the bottom of this post you get to vote whether we should have bylines. but just to be clear this is meant as a bit of good......
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thursday november 20th 1055pm dear diary just picked my chief of staff jackie norris . shes a very smart and strategic woman and thats just the person i want for this position. i love that i get to have staff as the first lady. also i am insulted the nerve of this la times columnist to write about my butt there is no reason to start discussing big butts like some rap so......
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source l.a. now in the middle of a winddriven firestorm its easy to feel that this one is worse than anything before it. but longtime angelenos and veteran firefighters remind us that the destruction and death of those autumn fires have always been a part of life in modern southern california. over at the lafd blog brian humphrey wrote a moving tribute to a gro......
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la biz observed bankruptcy not an option quote so says gm ceo rick wagoner who told lawmakers today that rather than trying to reorganize the company which is what usually happens in a bankruptcy filing there would be no choice but to liquidate. as a result wagoner added gm has concluded it should put virtually all effort into avoiding bankruptcy and hasn821......
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tomorrows daily journal will report that the city council did not approve the proposed settlement of legal claims for victims of the lapds misbehavior in... click here for the full article......
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walter brasch who has written many wellreceived guest voice posts for tmv has sent this guest column which we run in full here. his note deanne stillman is one of the nations best journalists and an advocate of the nations wild horses and burros. the bureau of land management under the bushcheney administration has been yielding to the pressure of the cattlemens ......
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actually 10 million is just the reported amount of the settlement between victims and the city of los angeles that is being brought today to... click here for the full article......
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so i pick up the sunday edition of the los angeles times and what do i see but a 16page special section with a heroic backlit photograph of the presidentelect under the banner headline change obamas moment it is an incredible thing to behold. the first words of defenestrated washington bureau chief doyle mcmanus portentiously laidout cover text wer......
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sobering news out of the american press institutes executive confab in reston va. last week. the newspaper industry is in a fullblown crisis and radical surgery is needed to save it according to an executive summary. ceos learned about the classic stages of a crisis and ran the numbers on their own businesses. all but one of the public companies in the room was below the safe s......
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source l.a. now eli broad is talking about building an art museum to house his vast art collection in beverly hills. details from bloombergs andy fixmer and daniel taub via la biz observed the gallery would display works from his charitable foundation and personal collection an attorney for broad wrote in an oct. 20 letter to beverly hills city manager roderick wo......
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its a personal family historians best of all possible worlds scenario follow a hankering to learn more family history for the sake of the kids and go to the state historical society discover not just one but dozens of boxes of archived materials about greatgreat grandpa and spend the next 8 years researching and writing a book about how that great great grandpa isaias w. hell......
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read this beautiful post ive been blogging on the front page of lao fire fire and more fire for a few days so forgive me if im a bit pooped. not so the dogs who spent a good hour chasing each other in the surf on a hot and smokey saturday where we were see the original post related posts fire dogs what if read this post the quality of these photos.......
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for those of you who live either in the chicago or los angeles area i have a question for you. have you ever seen governor sarah palin and tribune company innovation guru lee abrams together in the same room at the same time come on theyve got to be the same person. governor gidget must don a chubby suit flop on a wig and a few whiskers lower her voice a few registers and then p......
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image via wikipedia all across the nation today gay activists are picketing and demonstrating in front of mormon temples houses of worship and lds owned businesses. yesterday white powder was mailed and received at a number of lds temples . what brought all this onall this reaction against the church of jesus christ of latterday saints top ......
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