Journalism

#LAWebAwards: Ben Welsh Wins Savviest Online Presence

The L.A. Weekly's 2013 Web Awards honor the best of what's online. Check out the complete list of winners. As an undergrad at DePaul University, Ben Welsh had a work-study job answering phones at the school's College of Communication. He was bored. But because he was charged with posting new inter ... More >>

Michael Hastings' Dangerous Mind: Journalistic Star Was Loved, Feared and Haunted

Hurrah for the James Beard Book, Broadcast and Journalism Awards Winners!

The James Beard Book Broadcast and Journalism awards were held this past Saturday night, and a whole new crop of book authors, TV and radio folks and food journalists were honored with what is still considered the food world's greatest honor -- a James Beard medal. You can see the full list of win ... More >>

A New Book About the Gay Press, From The Advocate to Anderson Cooper

See also: *Top 12 LGBT Movies You Need To See, as Picked by Film Fest Organizers *Our Queertown column In her highly illustrated, keenly observed book Gay Press, Gay Power: The Growth of LGBT Community Newspapers in America, Chicago-based editor Tracy Baim looks at how gay magazines and newspapers ... More >>

Who Will Buy the Los Angeles Times?

Why do so many rich men want to buy it? And how did it get to this point anyway?

Los Angeles Times' Oscar Coverage Sees All-Time Record Web Traffic

There was a time, it seems, when there was a wall between pajama-bottom bloggers and real journalists. Real journalists didn't bait Google. Real journalists focused on facts and not on fancy photos. Real journalists trumpeted reporting awards over readership. Now? Not so much. The Los Angeles Time ... More >>

Gentlemen, Start Your Soapbox

Assembly District 50: Facing Tough Political Battle, Betsy Butler and Friends Point Fingers and Slam L.A. Weekly

We always know we're sounding the right notes on a story when a politician and her "friends" start crying foul in such an over-the-top way that it makes us laugh out loud. Such is the case with California Asseblywoman Betsy Butler, who's running for Assembly District 50 in a tight race against Santa ... More >>

The State Department Unveils the Diplomatic Culinary Partnership

We thought we were going to a small reception at the State Department. It was day 3 of the Association of Food Journalists annual conference, this year held in Washington D.C. As we stood in line to undergo the rigorous security clearances needed to enter the building (we had been asked to provide d ... More >>

L.A. Weekly Wins Big With 6 SoCal Journalism Awards, 3 AltWeeklies Awards

Last night's SoCal Journalism Awards -- an annual affair put on by the L.A. Press Club -- were more star-spangled than usual. Among the presenters and honorees were Martin Sheen, Ron Perlman (so much shorter in person, but with an even bigger voice), Daniel Pearl's extended family and every journal ... More >>

2012 Association of Food Journalists Award Finalists Announced

While everyone else was busy enjoying their Memorial Day, the Association of Food Journalists quietly announced the finalists for its 2012 awards competition. And to our pleasant surprise L.A. Weekly scored two nominations, including one in the category of best food blog for our own Squid Ink. The A ... More >>

LA Weekly Nominated for Over 20 National, Regional Journalism Awards: Read the Stories That Got Us Here

It's award season again for America's journalists, and LA Weekly is racking up the noms like a fat chick on Pinterest. On a national scale, the Association of Alternative Newsmedia just released its list of finalists for the annual AltWeeklies Awards, the most coveted alt-plaques around. At that Ju ... More >>

Latino Journalists Losing USC Office Space

America's first journalism group for Latinos will celebrate its 40th year in existence during its annual banquet June 1 at downtown's Biltmore Millennium Hotel. Unfortunately, this might also be its last year. The director of CCNMA: Latino Journalists of California (where this writer is a board me ... More >>

Eli Broad Wants to Buy Los Angeles Times (Again)

First Magic Johnson and Guggenheim Baseball purchase the Dodgers from the dreaded Frank McCourt. Now local billionaire Eli Broad is once again teasing us with the possibility that he could buy the Los Angeles Times and kick its loathed ownership -- the Tribune Co. and its tard of a chairman, Sam Ze ... More >>

Occupy LA: LAPD Investigates Caught-on-Video Arrest of Journalist Calvin Milam

YouTubeMilam's about to charge.​Updated at the bottom: The LAPD has opened an investigation into this case, but a commander disputes Mark Geragos' take on what happened to his client that night. The arrest of a journalist for alleged failure to disperse at Occupy L.A. last month was caught on ... More >>

Steven Sondheim's Look, I Made a Hat

Composer's book battles theater critics

Yasha Levine, Soviet 'Exile' And Practicing Journalist, Said to be Among Those Jailed Following LAPD Occupy Raid

Yasha.​Updated at the bottom: We're told he got out this afternoon. A colleague gives us an account of what happened. The L.A. County Sheriff's jail information page has a record of him being in custody. First posted at 12:22 p.m. A journalist who is credited with breaking the news that the b ... More >>

Pete Wells Named New York Times Restaurant Critic

Pete Wells​The New York Times just confirmed that Pete Wells will be that paper's next restaurant critic, ending two months of rampant speculation about who would get that coveted chair at the table. The previous critic, Sam Sifton, stepped down in September after two years at the position. Th ... More >>

Under Fire: Journalists in Combat review

Sniff This Out, Canned L.A. Times Staffers

George Ramos, Late L.A. Times Reporter, Honored by City Council

Los Angeles TimesGeorge Ramos.​The Los Angeles City Council adjourned today in memory of late, great Los Angeles Times staffer George Ramos. The journalist was found dead at his home over the weekend in Morro Bay after co-workers at CalCoastNews called authorities because they hadn't heard fr ... More >>

Los Angeles Times Responds to Chuck Philips' Demand That The Paper Take Back its Retraction of His Tupac Story

Tupac.​The Los Angeles Times has responded to former reporter Chuck Philips' demand that the paper take back its retraction of his controversial story about who shot Tupac Shakur in a 1994 New York studio attack widely believed to have been the opening volley in the East Coast-West Coast rap w ... More >>

Chuck Philips Demands L.A. Times Apology on Tupac Shakur

Lara Logan Reveals Rape Details, Moves On to Report Osama Bin Laden's Death in Same Night

CBS NewsLara Logan, back in action​"I don't want this to define me," CBS News correspondent Lara Logan told the New York Times on Thursday, previewing a solemn Sunday-night interview on "60 Minutes" in which she meticulously recounted her own February 11 gang rape in Egypt. A couple hours la ... More >>

Lara Logan Tells NYT She Was Raped by Object: By the Hands of Many Men in Tahrir Square

​Lara Logan has told the New York Times' Brian Stelter that she was repeatedly raped by the hands of many men in Tahrir Square in February. Logan will tell further details on 60 Minutes on Sunday night. For weeks, a controversy had simmered over what really happened to Logan after CBS stated ... More >>

L.A. Newsrooms Are Minority-Challenged in This Heavily Latino City, According to ASNE Journalism Survey

The Times they aren't a-changin.'​Looks like affirmative action, that controversial relic of the grunge era, is officially over in newspaperland. For the third straight year the number of minorities in newsrooms across America declined, according to the latest American Society of News Editor ... More >>

John Quigley and Arcadia Oak Tree Sitters Reject DA Steve Cooley's Plea Deal: 'We're going to litigate this case to the hilt'

By Mark Cromer Mark CromerJohn Quigly and Julia Posin stand where government bulldozers wiped out 240 Arcadia Woodlands trees.​Los Angeles County prosecutors today offered the 'Arcadia Four' tree-sitters -- who protested the county's destruction of 249 old-growth oaks north of L.A. -- a ple ... More >>

ARIANNA HUFFINGTON IS A BLOODY GENIUS

Demand Media, eHow Factory in Santa Monica, Already Worth $1.9 Billion: Retarded Web Searches Prevail

It's no Gehry, but Demand Media's oceanfront headquarters do just fine​In an unassuming mid-rise office building on the Santa Monica cliffs (1299 Ocean Avenue, to be exact), the nation's most profitable "journalistic" machine is hard at work -- churning out those short, un-researched half-answ ... More >>

L.A. Journalists Invited to Get Asses Kicked as Part of Police-Beat Training

Police Investigative Media Academy​Turns out some journalists do have first-hand experience with police displaying "use-of-force" techniques. There was that little incident in 2007 in which a line of LAPD cops pushed over people in MacArthur Park, including a few journalists. (Some sued and wo ... More >>

Tucson Massacre: Sarah Palin Takes To YouTube To Criticize Critics' 'Blood Libel'

CBS / YouTubeSarah Palin shoots at critics.​Clearly responding to jabs that her presidential aspirations were the least-important victim of the weekend's massacre in Tucson, Sarah Palin took to YouTube Wednesday to criticize the critics. She said attempts to link her kind of violence-laced po ... More >>

Are You Going to Anime LA? Here Are the Panels Where You Can Catch Us

Are you going to Anime L.A. this weekend at the Los Angeles Airport Marriott? If so, you can catch your LA Weekly convention team, that's Shannon Cottrell and I, on two panels Friday afternoon. Shannon CottrellInside Anime L.A.,​

"They Are the Dogs of War!"

Amazing Rants Overheard at Venice Beach: "Journalists are the dogs of war!"

​Ranter: Fifty year-old businessman from Ghana Location: Inka Deli, 1425 Ocean Front Walk, Venice Beach Time: 1 p.m. on a Monday Topics Covered: The mercenary nature of journalism; English's many different terms for butler; mysterious blood rituals; how and why reporters insinuate without dir ... More >>

Twitter Kicks California Secretary Of State's Ass In Real-Time Election Coverage

Even Ah-nold chooses Twitter on Election Day​On California Secretary of State Debra Bowen's most important night of the year, her prehistoric website was handling the traffic like the 405 freeway at 5 p.m. The standard map and chart features were wiped inexplicably, then replaced by a ghetto P ... More >>

Marcia Parker, AOL Patch's West Coast Honcho, Says The News Site Will Address L.A.'s Diversity By Using Google Translate

Marcia Parker, AOL Patch's West Coast editorial director.​In the last few months AOL's "hyper-local" news sites called Patch have been hard to ignore. Not only have they moved into some of Los Angeles County's more-affluent communities, but they've been hiring journalists at a time when some o ... More >>

Barry Minkow 2.0

L.A.'s fraud king is back — and taking the media for another ride

Patch, the WalMart of News?

AOL takes on longtime local bloggers with its hyperlocal news sites in Los Angeles

L.A. Sheriff's Dept. Refuses To Give Up Records In 40-Year-Old Case Of Journalist Ruben Salazar, Killed By A Deputy

​The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department is refusing to release eight boxes of records that could shed light on the death of Mexican American journalist Ruben Salazar, who was felled by a deputy's projectile 40 years ago. The records are older than the famous "Watergate tapes," but the dep ... More >>

Lines For The iPhone Could Mean Leak Of New Gadget Did Apple Good

​One of Apple's arguments in its push to condemn the website Gizmodo and those journalists who helped to leak images and information about the new iPhone was that the unauthorized previews hurt sales of its existing phone model because, getting a taste of the edgy new gadget, people would wait ... More >>

Shhh: Journalists Take Free Tickets Too (Just Don't Tell Villaraigosa's Camp)

Fox 11 News​Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa is in deep in this one. It's summer and, frankly, we have nothing better to do than to watch him squirm as reporters ask why he didn't report thousands of dollars worth of free tickets to Lakers games, awards shows and other events as gifts as ... More >>

Two LA Weekly Reporters Up For 'Journalists Of The Year' At L.A. Press Club Awards

Patrick Range McDonald.​Finalists for the Los Angeles Press Club's 52nd SoCal Journalism Awards were announced Friday, and they included LA Weekly staff writers Patrick Range McDonald and Christine Pelisek for "journalists of the year" in the over-50,000-circulation category. R. Scott Moxley o ... More >>

THE MAN WHO GAVE VAN GOGH LINES

Town Hall Meeting at Grammy Museum

Swine Flu Deaths Covered Up In California

Neon Tommy, the USC Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism publication, has been rebuffed by several counties in California in its attempt to obtain records of swine flu deaths.Neon Tommy​ Only after some persistence did Los Angeles County allow the USC journalists to take a peek ... More >>

Love and Marriage

Signs of the Times

Dangerous Liaisons

More hanky-panky than a whorehouse in LAT opinion section

Baquet Begins - Web Exclusive Update

Inside the L.A. Times upheaval

The Untold Story

How corporate takeovers make the media less curious