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Tribune Board Meets as Mutiny at the Los Angeles Times Continues

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Los Angeles Times Publisher Jeff Johnson and Editor Dean Baquet have made news by publicly challenging their bosses at Tribune Publishing in Chicago. Almost half the Times’ staff has lined up to support the executives. When will the mutiny come to an end?  Plus, California farmers cope with the spinach crisis, and the State sues six auto-makers over global warming.

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Guests:
  • Dale Huss: Vice President of Production Ocean Mist Farms
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Tribune Board Meets as Mutiny at the LA Times Continues ()

Publisher Jeff Johnson and Editor Dean Baquet still have their jobs, at least for the moment, after a public challenge to LA Times owners at Tribune Publishing in Chicago. Twenty high-profile Los Angeles civic leaders have asked Tribune to improve local coverage or sell the paper. They've been joined by a virtual Times' staff revolt against prospective reductions. Meantime, Los Angeles readers will be seeing bylines from other papers owned by Tribune. Is the paper actually better since Tribune took over? Should the rebellious executives have been fired? What's the atmosphere inside the LA Times?  When will the mutiny come to an end? 

Guests:
  • Jim Newton: City and County Bureau Chief for the LA Times,
  • Conrad Fink: Professor of Newspaper Strategy and Management at the University of Georgia

Reporter's Notebook

Attorney General Sues Six Auto Makers ()

Attorney General Bill Lockyer claims that greenhouse-gas emissions from automobiles harm California by contributing to global warming. In the first suit of its kind, he's gone to court against the six biggest US and Japanese makers of cars: Chrysler, General Motors, Ford, Toyota North America, Honda North America, and Nissan North America.

Guests:
  • Ken Alex: Supervising Deputy Attorney General for the State of California

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Which Way L.A.? is made possible in part by the Ralph M. Parsons Foundation, the Nathan Cummings Foundation, and the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation, which supports study and research into policy issues of the Los Angeles region.

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