Saturday, January 13, 2018

Tronc’s Times newsroom blowback

Tronc’s Times newsroom blowback

Chicago wheeler-dealer Michael Ferro's tronc, which has been shrinking the staff and newsroom space of the San Diego Union-Tribune, is encountering resistance from Los Angeles Times staffers, worried about putative plans to move the U-T’s big sister from downtown L.A. to somewhere in the metro area's upscale western reaches.
Ross Levinsohn
"Tronc is actively looking at the Westside as a possible future location for our newsroom, according to several well-connected sources," per a January 10 blog post by the Los Angeles Times Guild, the labor union seeking to represent the paper's staff.
"Santa Monica, Playa del Rey (perhaps Playa Vista) have been floated as prospective addresses. We have also obtained an older proposal for Tronc’s plan to move our newsroom to the Aon building downtown."

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