Which Way, L.A.?
Regional Newspapers
The "Santa Monica Outlook" has just folded. And the "Daily News" and the "Long Beach PressTelegram" have been sold. Do the suburbs of L.A. get the news they need? What should papers do to keep advertising and readers? And can Singleton complete his "ring" of papers around L.A.?
By Warren Olney • • 1 min readSkip Rimer: Former Executive Editor of the Santa Monica Outlook Steve Hadland: Publisher and editor for Coastal Community Newspapers (publishes Culver City News and 9 other local papers) which has launched the new weekly "Santa Monica Bay Week" Geoff Hall: Publisher for Brentwood Media Group (publishes Brentwood News and The Chronicle) and has launched the new Santa Monica Sun Bob Magnuson: Senior Vice President of Regional Editions, Los Angeles Times which is to launch -Our Times- this Thursday, a Santa Monica weekly to be inserted into 40,000 editions of LA Times John Morton: President of Morton Research Inc. which analyses the newspaper industry Ike Massey: President and CEO of Los Angeles Newspaper Group (part of MediaNews Group) which includes the LA Daily News, Long Beach Press Telegram, Pasadena Star News, San Gabriel Valley Tribune and the Whittier Daily News Lew Friedland: Co-Author of Civic Lessons, an evaluation of four case studies in civic journalism; Professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Wisconsin Taylor Flynn: Staff attorney with the ACLU of Southern California Joel Kotkin: Economist. Author of Tribes: How Race Religion and Identity Determine Success in the New Global Economy; Senior Fellow at the Pepperdine School of Business and Management; author of article in today's Wall Street Journal entitled, "The Award for the Most Cutthroat Industry Goes To. . ." and WILL
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