LA Observed

OK, so I finally caught on that all the retrospectives popping up one by one on the LA Weekly website were part of a special issue. I picked up the...

The L.A. Times has dusted off the dormant title of Metro Editor and moved veteran Steve Clow into the role as number two on local coverage. Most recently he had...

My duty is done for another year — such as it was. After forming a pool of 99 jurors for a 25-day trial in Dept. 107, the judge came out...

Former LA Weekly writer Matthew Fleischer, now a senior editor at CityBeat, debuts in the paper with a piece on the city of Maywood and its controversial mayor, Felipe Aguirre,...

Last night at the Beverly Hills Hotel, PEN Center USA gave a lifetime achievement award to multi-faceted writer Larry Gelbart and its First Amendment Award to the Writers Guild. Jesse...

The City Council temporarily stopped construction of the elephant exhibit at the L.A. Zoo to do more study. LAT, DN Supt. David Brewer's save his job tour took him...

The life of a local television news cameraman involves a lot of hurry up and wait. Case in point: this afternoon's (yawn) Grammy nominations concert, as Channel 2's Bryan Frank...

Hard science coverage, which the L.A. Times has been gradually downgrading for years, takes a back seat to health coverage. Space reporter John Johnson moves to National rather than go...

I can't remember the last time I posted media news out of our esteemed neighbor to the north, Kern County. (Though the recent Ry Cooder and Mister Jalopy adventure in...

East Coast website DCRTV.com reports radio biz talk that CBS may be looking to swap its AM news stations in Los Angeles — KNX 1070 and KFWB 980 — in...