I happened to be in San Bernardino this morning, and I saw the mess of a paper that was thrown on people’s doorsteps.
I didn’t know it was an L.A. News Group-wide problem-cum-disaster until I got this link from Reporter G.
He is a former staffer at the San Gabriel Valley Tribune, and has good sources and […]

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Word out of the “Eastern Division” of L.A. News Group is that about a half-dozen advertising layout/design people previously located at the San Gabriel Valley Tribune have been instructed to report to work at the San Bernardino Sun offices, beginning Monday.
This is only the latest episode in what has been a pattern of employee-jerk-arounds perpetrated […]

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I’m hearing that surviving sports staffers with the Ontario/San Bernardino arm of Dean Singleton’s L.A. News Group are being told not to expect a return to the main office in Berdoo any time soon.
In one of the generically nonsensical and routinely unconscionable forced migrations of staff perpetrated on journalists at LANG’s eastern properties, the entire […]

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A friend of mine noticed an interesting take at sj.com (sports journalists dot-com) recently on what the poster declared to be the dawn of the Post Fear Factor era in journalism.
In short, this writer argues that print has become all stick and very little carrot. Particularly in the Dean Singleton-run MediaNews chain, and especially in […]

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Ron Kaye, the respected editor of the L.A. Daily News, recently put to pasture by MediaNews, has launched a blog.
The url: ronkayela.com …
It appears as if he will talk about newspapers, and as an insider with the L.A. News Group over the past few years, he could provide a lot of the background […]

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Yes, absolutely, it’s a gaffe for the ages. Dean Singleton asking Barack Obama about the threat posed by “Obama” bin Laden.
Read about it here; … or see it here.
That’s a whopper, you bet, from your MediaNews CEO.
But the real news out of the E&P story (the first link, above)? What really […]

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The L.A. News Group is sending no one to the Beijing Olympics, barring some late change of heart. Meaning that the MediaNews-owned ring of suburban dailies has gone from three reporters at both the Sydney and Athens games (of 2000 and 2004) … to two at the Torino winter games (2006) … to zero at […]

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Any useful journalist who has been around newspapers for any length of time can tell you:
It’s an avocation, not a vocation.
We love(d) what we do. And we will allow huge tracts of our real lives to go to pieces to make sure the print product we worked for is as good as it possible can […]

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Matthew Kredell covered just about everything during his tenure with the Los Angeles Daily News. Even though he never was a full-time staffer. Something most of the rest of us didn’t know — because he seemed to be at a major L.A. event five days a week. Dodgers, Lakers, USC … and then the Kings, […]

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Much has been written about the deep cuts in the L.A. Daily News newsroom, the subsequent ouster of ace editor Ron Kaye, and the gutting of the once-proud Long Beach Press-Telegram (essentially reduced to a bureau of the Torrance Daily Breeze).
Bad stuff. But it turns out that life as a professional journalist is even more […]

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