Have had very little to share this week as the news within the newspaper's grapevine is very depressing. The word we have all feared appears to be true according to Kevin Roderick:
"Publisher Eddy Hartenstein has ordered the California section killed, leaving the L.A. Times without a separate local news front for the first time since the paper's early decades. The publisher decided to fold local news inside the front section — which will be reconfigured to downplay national and foreign news — despite what an official of the paper confirmed for me was the unanimous and vocal objections of senior editors. Advertisers were informed on Wednesday, and word began to leak on Thursday. Hartenstein reportedly planned to delay an announcement until the close of business on Friday, fearing it will play as
another black eye for the Times. He's right about that. I'm told that in contentious discussions in recent weeks, the editors failed to persuade Hartenstein that if a section had to go, the more palatable cut would be to move the less-read Business pages".
The impact of dropping the California Section means an entire shift may be eliminated very soon as the sections of the newspapers currently produced on the second shift in the pressroom will be merged into the third shift. I will explain in detail later this afternoon as the news filters around both pressrooms at the Los Angeles Times this morning.
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