LA Observed
The Times' Big Jim
Did you hear the news? The Los Angeles Times is going to reinvent itself again -- a little bit anyway...
By Kevin Roderick • • 4m ListenThis is Kevin Roderick with LA Observed for KCRW.
Los Angeles Times is going to reinvent itself again -- a little bit anyway. The editor decreed it will be so, after listening to something called the Reinvent Committee.
Jim O'Shea has been editor in chief of California's largest newspaper for almost a year. He got the job when a new publisher sent from Chicago orchestrated a clash with the staff's popular leader, Dean Baquet.
Chicago Tribune, where he worked for many years. But the suits in the Midwest figured he was good enough for the L.A. Times.
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