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A report from The Oregonian/OregonLive columnist John Canzano that claims the Los Angeles Times accepted advertising money in exchange for increased coverage of the Pac-12 is being denied by the media company. The Oregonian report on Thursday claimed the LA Times agreed to accept $100,000 in advertising in exchange…

The Los Angeles Times journalists attempting to negotiate a union contract with the media company today reached out to its readers for support. Contract talks have moved at a snail’s pace at the Times since the journalists overwhelmingly elected to form the first union in the news organization’s history…

Fox News host Laura Ingraham is questioning the media’s focus on the royal baby’s race. The Ingraham Angle host did a “Seen and Unseen” segment earlier this week about the Duke and Duchess of Sussex's newborn son. Ingraham introduced the segment as a look at “the media’s race obsession with the royal baby.” Fox…

What was initially described as a computer virus and subsequently as an organized cyberattack led to delays in the printing and deliveries of the Saturday edition of the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune, Baltimore Sun and several other major newspapers that operate on a shared production platform as they all…

Many newspaper subscribers all over the country were without copies of their papers on Saturday after a cyberattack causes some major problems with printing and delivery of several newspapers including the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune, the Baltimore Sun as well as the San Diego Union-Tribune. According to…

A little more than two years after Tribune Publishing Co. now infamously changed its name to the Wall Street collective head-scratcher tronc, Inc., the company is officially changing its name back. The Chicago-based publishing company will resume trading on the Nasdaq under the symbol TPCO, replacing TRNC, on October…

UPDATE with statement from Felicia Sonmez: The former Beijing bureau chief for the Los Angeles Times has resigned after the news organization completed its investigation into allegations of sexual misconduct. The Times had suspended Jonathan Kaiman this spring, after two women came forward with accusations of sexually…

The Los Angeles Times said today it is planning a public tribute for restaurant critic Jonathan Gold, the Pulitzer Prize-winning and longtime fixture of L.A.’s diverse food scene, who died July 21 at age 57. The events set for August 26 include the debut of unseen footage from Laura Gabbert’s documentary City of Gold…

Tronc, which acquired the New York Daily News last year for $1 plus the assumption of debt, has slashed half of its editorial staff as part of an aggressive new emphasis on digital news delivery. The company’s stock price has dipped a fraction so far today, to about $16.10, which is within the narrow range where it…

An open letter signed by more than 40 people, most of them female celebrities but including male actor and abuse victim Terry Crews, has called on the public to stop blaming actress Asia Argento for the suicide of celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain. The letter, published Thursday by the Los Angeles Times, claimed…

As Tronc announced today’s closing of its sale of the Los Angeles Times and San Diego Union-Tribune for $590 million including the assumption of liabilities, multiple press reports said it plans to surrender its controversial name. Short for “Tribune Online Content” (and also an obscure bit of British slang), Tronc as…

Former Los Angeles Times editor-in-chief Lewis D’Vorkin and dozens of other employees of Tronc Inc. were dismissed on Thursday. The cuts, which were made in a joint meeting with all the laid off employees present, included Tribune Interactive’s Los Angeles-based video and online content teams, which operate…