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Los Angeles Times Could Be Yours: Crowdfunding Campaign Launches

Some folks are really scared that billionaire conservatives are going to run the "free press." News flash: Billionaire conservatives already run the free press. Anyway, there's a crowdfunding campaign afoot to buy the Los Angeles Times so that the ultra-right Koch brothers don't get their Mr. Burns ... More >>

Matthew Keys Helped Anonymous Hack Los Angeles Times Website, Feds Allege

See details, at the bottom, about the story that was hacked. Federal authorities say a former Tribune Co. employee handed the digital keys of the Los Angeles Times over to Anonymous hackers who then changed an online feature story. The allegation came as Matthew Keys, 26, was charged with "conspir ... More >>

Are the Koch Brothers Trying to Buy the Los Angeles Times?

Update: The Koch Brothers respond, sort of. See next page. See also: Who Will Buy the Los Angeles Times?The latest rumor about the next owner of the L.A. Times, which is for sale, is a doozy. A bombshell. It's a doozy wrapped in a bombshell exploding inside a Drudge siren. Multiple sources te ... 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?

Reading Can Be Grand

Los Angeles Times to be Auctioned, as Will All Tribune Post-Bankruptcy Newspapers: Bruce Karsh Will be The Deal's Frank McCourt

Updated below with Tribune clarifying it's not really an auction, reactions from top Los Angeles Times journalists and potential buyer Austin Beutner. Additional reporting by Hillel Aron. CNBC is reporting that Tribune Co. has hired investment bankers to sell off its newspaper unit, which includes ... More >>

More Political Intrigue in West Hollywood City Council Race, But Will Voters Care on Election Day?

Every two years, West Hollywood residents often get a startling look at how their government is actually run via City Council elections, and every two years West Hollywood residents almost always vote for the same people -- if they show up at the voting booths at all. Will this year be any different ... More >>

L.A. Indie Book Publishers Are Thriving. How Is That Possible?

Starting a book publishing house in today's economic climate, Anthony Berryman acknowledges, was "insane." He admits, "From a business perspective, it was never a thought that I was going to be a book publisher. I'm a high school teacher. That's what I do."But start a publishing house is just wh ... More >>

Why Self-Publish? Artists and Writers Explain at Long Beach Comic Expo

See our coverage of Long Beach Comic Expo 2011: "Long Beach Comic Expo: Five Things We Love About Small Conventions." Sheika Lugtu is 24 and a student at Long Beach City College. A couple of years ago, she returned to school and decided to document her life in comic form, one panel a day. "At the e ... 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 >>

L.A. Chefs Can't Get Any Respect From New York Publishers. Could Comme Ca's David Myers Break the Curse?

Shelf Life 2: A Big Day for Small Press

The Image Comics Alpha Girl Show

Anthony Bourdain Gets His Own Line of Books at Ecco

​ Anthony Bourdain can now add yet another title to the long list of those he has already: chef, crime novelist, non-fiction author, television host, HBO writer, and eater of odd foods. No, not political candidate, but publisher. Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, today announced th ... More >>

iPad Killer Sought by Tribune Co., Corporate Parent of L.A. Times: Try Not to Laugh

Newspaper suits want to go head-to-head with this.​The Chicago-based geniuses at the Tribune Co., corporate parent of the Los Angeles Times, have their sights set on an iPad killer. Really. Because nothing says "future-forward high-tech hub" like the land of hot-dogs and coronary disease. The ... More >>

Los Angeles Times For Sale? Speculation Spikes After Parent Company Isolates Paper's Leadership

Buy it now.​Extra, extra, read all about it. Buy your Los Angeles Times here. No, really. Buy the Times: the whole paper, the offices, printing presses -- everything. That's the longtime fantasy of many an editorial employee at one of the nation's finest news operations. Especially after the ... More >>

This Is a Blurb

[Updated] Bon Appétit Names Adam Rapoport New Editor-in-Chief

Update: Over at The New York Times yesterday, Julia Moskin caught up with newly named Bon Appétit editor-in-chief Adam Rapoport, hours after he was officially named to the post on Monday. Rapoport, who is 40 and likes to cook and play golf with Justin Timberlake, spent the night grilling lamb and m ... More >>

Tribune Deal Never Should Have Happened, Bankruptcy Court Finds

Tribune headquarters.​The Chicago Tribune reports that A new trove of documents in the Tribune Co. bankruptcy case shows former and current executives used overly optimistic projections and an investment's bank's stamp of approval to allow a group led by Sam Zell to buy the company even though ... More >>

Los Angeles Times Parent Company Proposes Golden Parachutes To Top Executives

​Chicago-based Tribune Co., which owns the Los Angeles Times and KTLA News, is trying to hand out hefty severance packages to its top executives. While more and more reporters are being cut from its payroll, Tribune Co. filed a new plan Thursday that would give its top 43 executives hefty seve ... More >>

"Japanese Cocktails" Book Review Begets A Publishing Industry Soliloquy An Aloe Margarita Recipe

​Japanese Cocktails by Kuri Kato is a curious new cocktail book that we sort of love, and like many "sponsored" books, sort of tire of quickly. There are certainly some intriguing recipes like the Aloe Margarita (recipe after the jump) that we can't wait to shake up on one of Santa Monica's dr ... More >>

Food Fight at Condé Nast: The Sketchy Future of Bon Appétit and Gourmet

Gordon Ramsay does a cooking demo​Readers of food magazines often like to pit Condé Nast's two culinary powerhouses, Gourmet and Bon Appétit, against each other. Like Letterman and Leno, one is based in New York (Gourmet), the other here in Los Angeles (Bon Appétit). Gourmet has historicall ... More >>

Gannett Spurns Santa Monica Bid for Arizona's Oldest Paper

Associated Press reports that the Gannett newspaper chain, which owns the Tucson Citizen, has rejected an offer from Santa Monica Media Co., owner of the Santa Monica and Culver City Observers. The Citizen, Arizona's oldest continuously published daily, had been on the block since January, when Gann ... More >>

Occulture Club

Why You Leavin' (News Corp.), Peter Chernin?

And what you earnin', Chernin?

WSJ: Cubs Win Freedom As Zell Sells

A late Wall Street Journal report claims that Sam Zell, the CEO of Tribune Company, which owns the Los Angeles Times, plans to sell the Chicago Cubs baseball team to the Ricketts family, whose "bid, led by Chicago financier Tom Ricketts, son of J. Joe Ricketts, the founder of TD Ameritrade Holding C ... More >>

Zellout! Tribune Co.'s Bankruptcy Stokes Anti-Semitic Bloggers

Among other things, the Tribune Company's announcement that it is seeking Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection has reliably sparked a chorus of anti-Semitic comments in the far-right blogosphere. (Sam Zell photo via Gawker)

The Anime Collective: Baka Deshi Productions

Where the otaku world and music geekdom collide

Gathering of the Tribe

Be Afraid. Be Very Afraid

The Sopranos-like takeover of Tribune Co. could mean cement shoes for employees

Dangerous Liaisons

More hanky-panky than a whorehouse in LAT opinion section

Goodbye Baquet, Hello O'Shea

The Chicagoan comes out fighting

Hollywood to Newsosaurs:Drop Dead

As Daily Demos turn gray, Hollywood ad dollars go away

The Untold Story

How corporate takeovers make the media less curious

The Charter End Game

Councilman Svorinich discovers global capitalism

Fulfillment

A Publishing Memoir