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 […]

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Perhaps you saw my advertisement in the San Bernardino Sun this morning. Thanks for taking the time to look me up. Since nobody bothered to tell you what happened to me, my wife thought I should take out an ad in the paper. I thought it was worth the $83.40 investment to update The Sun’s […]

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Ron Kaye is about to announce his “retirement” from the Los Angeles Daily News, according to laobserved.com. That is, he is being forced out. You can see the story here. This is another sad piece of news for print journalism in greater Los Angeles … because Kaye was the last competent editor in the benighted […]

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Oh, something that struck me while being at the NCAA games in Anaheim on Thursday: How disconnected I feel, already, from the people covering the event for media outlets. Even from the heights of Section 414 I could see people I know down there at the tables on press row. Frank Burlison, Mike Waldner, Billy […]

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My first entry on this blog was a recounting of being fired. Which I intended to be, oh, a look at one company’s methods of getting rid of a long-time employee in a time of crisis. I can’t say it was blog-as-catharsis because I don’t remember feeling any worse before or any better after. In […]

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Before my former employer changed blog hosts, I did more than a year on another site. Here is the link: http://lang.sbsun.com/blogs/inthiscorner/

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You can look at what was my blog site at the San Bernardino Sun. They’ve taken my name off the top of it, but for the moment the site still exists. The url is … http://www.insidesocal.com/sb/inthiscorner About 300 entries there.

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It took me, oh, about three seconds to process the meaning of the call from the newsroom secretary. “Steve wants to see you in Louise’s office.” Steve would be Steve Lambert, editor of The Sun/Bulletin/Titanic. And Louise is Louise Kopitch, head of personnel for the same foundering entities. These days, your editor wants to see […]

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