Los Angeles Times Moving More Content Online

From: James, Mike
Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2013 12:20 PM
Subject: space Hey Everyone,

A heads-up about some space reductions coming our way. Beginning next week, as part of an overall reduction in the paper’s news hole, the Sports section is going to be reduced by an average of roughly seven columns a day, or eight pages a week. You’ll all obviously see some changes in the section; a couple of those changes have already gone into effect. We are trying to deal with this reduction in large part by trimming our agate report and not dramatically limiting the original content you all provide so professionally every day.

You may have noticed that today’s NBA box scores are in a reduced format from what we have been using. We made this change ahead of next week because it seemed logical, with the league coming out of the All-Star break. We have eliminated the latest line for baseball, hockey and college basketball as well. There will be other significant agate cuts.

We will continue, however, to use full box scores for our local teams.

I suspect that many of you associated with beats will get emails from readers complaining about lack of scores or truncated box scores. Please forward those to me; I’m compiling information about the reaction to the cuts.

This space reduction will force us to write more tightly as well, and everyone can expect that word counts will be reduced as we work through this.

Thanks, Mike….


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