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Airport fire in Orange County: Evacuations, road closures, shelters. She endured a traumatic cavity search when visiting a California prison. Now she won a $5.6-million settlement.
Jan 22, 2024 · Los Angeles Times journalists walked off the job on Friday in the first union-organized work stoppage in the 142-year history of the newspaper. Hunter Kerhart for The New York Times. By Benjamin...
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- Quickfire Questions with Dr Patrick Soon-Shiong
Born in South Africa to Chinese parents in 1952, Soon-Shiong completed a medical degree at the University of Witwatersrand. He moved to California in the early 1980s and initially worked at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Soon-Shiong set up his own research firm in 1991. The “foundation of his fortune”, according to an LA Times pr...
Last February, the Wall Street Journal reportedthat Soon-Shiong was “exploring a sale” of the California Times group. The report said the billionaire was growing “dissatisfied with the news organization’s slow expansion of its digital audience and its substantial losses”. Soon-Shiong immediately tweeted a denial of the story, describing it as “inac...
Soon-Shiong’s ultimate vision for the LA Times, shared by his second executive editor, Kevin Merida, is to transform it from a newspaper into a multimedia “platform”. “It’ll be a platform where we’re doing the LA Times Studios, we’re doing a food kitchen, we’re doing sports, we’re doing podcasts. I’m so excited by Kevin, who thinks about things lik...
According to a spokesperson, the California Times group lost nearly $60m in advertising revenues in 2020, largely thanks to Covid-19. Overall, the company generated around $350m in revenue that year, according to a report by the Wrap. “Unfortunately, the advertising dollars continue to drop, so that’s a reality of the world,” says Soon-Shiong. “And...
Favourite movie? “Oh my God. I’m trying to think. It’s such a long time since I watched a movie... I’ve not been to the theatre for two and a half years... I honestly can’t tell you. I watch Netflix now.” Favourite Netflix show? “I’m watching an Asian show right now, because I don’t speak Chinese, it’s called the Land of the Phoenix or whatever. It...
- William Turvill
The summer COVID-19 surge may be dipping — just like life expectancy. LACMA opening pushed to 2026; staff memo reveals plans for sneak peek inside empty new building. California death row inmate...
Otis Chandler (November 23, 1927 – February 27, 2006) was the publisher of the Los Angeles Times between 1960 and 1980, leading a large expansion of the newspaper and its ambitions. He was the fourth and final member of the Chandler family to hold the paper's top position.
Aug 16, 2012 · From a Los Angeles Times article dated February 20, 1985: For years, residents of the neighborhood have complained that teen-agers frequenting the Odyssey--many of whom are as young as 13 and...
Feb 13, 2019 · Though an estimated 2,100 journalists have lost their jobs in recent weeks nationwide, in L.A. last year Patrick Soon-Shiong bought the Los Angeles Times, returning the paper to local...
