Los Angeles Times in the Blogs

Fast-tracking Tribune sale
Will the future of the Tribune Co. be sorted out in just a few weeks? With every new bidder or potential bidder entering the auction process, it's hard to believe the board will be in a position to vote on anything by the end of the year (that had been the plan).

Afternoon rim shot
I'm not sure what the folks at Online News Squared are trying to say about Tribune's potential sale with this "news" item, but they think the Times will be especially interested in the, uh, Southern California angle to the new financial team that is considering a bid:

Times writers on the LAT
There's been a bunch of analyzing, fretting and free advice-giving by staffers at the Times the past couple of days (not to mention Metro reporter Sam Quinones' cheeky email to the publisher — which now has a reply from the boss.) With the new editor arriving at 3 pm to meet the newsroom, let's start with media columnist Tim Rutten:

Gannett mulling bid for Tribune assets
CHICAGO — Gannett Co., owner of The News Journal and the largest newspaper publisher in the nation, has surfaced as a potential buyer of the Chicago Tribune and other newspapers owned by Tribune Co., according to published reports.

How to save the L.A. Times
Harry B. Chandler talks about the Los Angeles Times' hopes for survival. He's a part of the Chandler family, as in "Harry Chandler and his wife, Marian, who established the trusts that controlled The Times and its corporate cousins until the sale to Tribune in 2000." He's got some interesting ideas to save the paper:

The L.A. Times is dying by a thousand cuts
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) - Welcome, James O'Shea, the managing editor of the Chicago Tribune who is taking over as the editor of the beaten-down Los Angeles Times.
The newspaper you're inheriting is dying a death of a thousand cuts.