A series in December 2004 on the King-Drew Medical Center in Los Angeles led to a Pulitzer Prize and a more thorough coverage of the hospital's troubled history. The Times also embarked on a number of investigative journalism pieces. Established in September 1968, it is a place for the weird and the interesting in the How Far Can a Piano Fly? (a compilation of Column One stories) introduction, Patt Morrison writes that the column's purpose is to elicit a "Gee, that's interesting, I didn't know that" type of reaction. One of the Times's features is "Column One," a feature that appears daily on the front page to the left-hand side. Former sports editor Bill Dwyre is also a columnist. Simers, Kurt Streeter and Helene Elliott, the first female sportswriter to be inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame. Sports columnists include Bill Plaschke, who is also a panelist on ESPN's Around the Horn, T.J. Today, however, the paper has a distinctiveĪmong the Times's staff are columnists Steve Lopez and Patt Morrison, music critics Robert Hillburn and Randy Lewis, film critic Kenneth Turan and entertainment industry columnist Patrick Goldstein. Staunchly Republican, which was reflected in the paper's editorial and Which is also covered in California Water Wars. Valley, an effort (highly) fictionalized in the Roman Polanski movie Chinatown Towards those ends, the paper supported efforts toĮxpand the city's water supply by acquiring the watershed of the Owens Was based on civic boosterism, extolling the virtues of Los Angeles and Huntington and Moses Sherman) as aīusinessman "capable of manipulating the entire apparatus of politicsĪnd public opinion for his own enrichment." Otis's editorial policy In 1884, he bought out the newspaper and printingĬompany to form the Times-Mirror Company. Lieutenant colonel Harrison Gray Otis as an editor. The paper's printer, the MirrorĬompany, took over the newspaper and installed former Union Army Paper was first published as the Los Angeles Daily Times onĭecember 4, 1881, but soon went bankrupt. (the first was The New York Times in 2002). Paper won five prizes, which was the second-most by any paper in one year Includes four in editorial cartooning, and one each in spot news reportingįor the 1965 Watts Riots and the 1992 Los Angeles riots. In 1881, the Times has won 37 Pulitzer Prizes through 2004 this States and the third-most widely distributed newspaper in the United It is the second-largest metropolitan newspaper in the United Los Angeles Times (also known as the LA Times)Īngeles, California and distributed throughout the Western United
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