LA Times layoffs hit graphics team hard

 From Editor Davan Maharaj and Managing Editor Marc Duvoisin

To the staff:

We’ve just completed a modest round of staff reductions.

Losing even a small number of colleagues is difficult. Losing them in a close-knit newsroom where we all work together for a common purpose is even harder.

But it does not alter our mission or our focus on the future.

We will continue to reshape the newsroom to enhance our digital report, from breaking news to narrative and investigative projects. That will require us to keep developing our multimedia skills--within the newsroom and with new recruits.

The redesign of latimes.com is set to launch this fall. It will greatly enhance the reader experience and give us a wealth of new tools for presenting stories, graphics, photos and video. The redesign will build on recent improvements, such as the new template for Column One, the groundbreaking work of our data team and our steadily expanding real-time coverage of the news.

We’re both available to respond to questions or concerns.

--Davan and Marc

SOURCE: Kevin Roderick

LA Times changes up the home page - LA Observed

LA Times changes up the home page - LA Observed

 By the way, I don't think this is necessarily related, but the layoff winds are blowing through the Los Angeles Times newsroom again. Staffers are chattering about grim meetings and what seem to be lists being drawn up. Accurate or not, the fear level is definitely rising, and morale already pretty much sucked outside of a chosen few. When you are for sale, and the print product each morning is the thinnest in memory, those things happen.

--Kevin Roderick

Today in Labor History*

June 28  --  Union Communications Services, Inc.

Birthday of machinist Matthew Maguire, who many believe first suggested Labor Day. Others believe it was Peter McGuire, a carpenter - 1850

2013.06.24history-honor-laborPresident Grover Cleveland signs legislation declaring Labor Day an official U.S. holiday - 1894

The federal government sues the Teamsters to force reforms on the union, the nation's largest. The following March, the government and the union sign a consent decree requiring direct election of the union's president and creation of an Independent Review Board - 1988





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Today in Labor History

June 27  --  Union Communications Services, Inc.

Emma Goldman, women's rights activist and radical, born in Lithuania. She came to the U.S. at age 17 - 1869

The Industrial Workers of the World, also known as the "Wobblies," is founded at a 12-day-long convention in Chicago. The Wobbly motto: "An injury to one is an injury to all." - 1905

Congress passes the National Labor Relations Act, creating the structure for collective bargaining in the United States - 1935

(The Labor Law Source Book: Texts of 20 Federal Labor Laws: A very handy collection that puts the full texts of all the 2013.06.24history-labor-law-sourcemajor U.S. labor laws into one book. Includes the National Labor Relations Act, the Fair Labor Standards Act, Occupational Safety and Health Act, Family and Medical Leave Act and 15 more. The full, actual language of each law is presented—without elaboration by the editor—and a helpful topic finder at the back of the book tells you which laws apply to basic concerns and classes of workers.)

A 26-day strike of New York City hotels by 26,000 workers—the first such walkout in 50 years—ends with a 5-year contract calling for big wage and benefit gains - 1985

A.E. Staley locks out 763 workers in Decatur, Ill. The lockout was to last two and one-half years - 1993

Wednesday, June 26, 2013

Nelson Mandela Rest in Peace

Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela (Xhosa pronunciation: [xoˈliːɬaɬa manˈdeːla]; born 18 July 1918) is a South African anti-apartheid revolutionary and politician who served as President of South Africa from 1994 to 1999. He was the first black South African to hold the office, and the first elected in a fully representative, multiracial election. His government focused on dismantling the legacy of apartheid through tackling institutionalised racism, poverty and inequality, and fostering racial reconciliation. Politically an African nationalist and democratic socialist, he served as the President of the African National Congress (ANC) from 1991 to 1997. Internationally, Mandela was the Secretary General of the Non-Aligned Movement from 1998 to 1999.


A Xhosa born to the Thembu royal family, Mandela attended Fort Hare University and the University of Witwatersrand, where he studied law. Living in Johannesburg, he became involved in anti-colonial politics, joining the ANC and becoming a founding member of its Youth League. After the Afrikaner nationalists of the National Party came to power in 1948 and began implementing the policy of apartheid, he rose to prominence in the ANC's 1952 Defiance Campaign, was elected President of the Transvaal ANC Branch and oversaw the 1955 Congress of the People. Working as a lawyer, he was repeatedly arrested for seditious activities and, with the ANC leadership, was prosecuted in the Treason Trial from 1956 to 1961 but was found not guilty. Although initially committed to non-violent protest, in association with the South African Communist Party he co-founded the militant Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) in 1961, leading a bombing campaign against government targets. In 1962 he was arrested, convicted of sabotage and conspiracy to overthrow the government, and sentenced to life imprisonment in the Rivonia Trial.

Mandela served 27 years in prison, first on Robben Island, and later in Pollsmoor Prison and Victor Verster Prison. An international campaign lobbied for his release, which was granted in 1990 amid escalating civil strife. Becoming ANC President, Mandela published his autobiography and led negotiations with President F.W. de Klerk to abolish apartheid and establish multiracial elections in 1994, in which he led the ANC to victory. He was elected President and formed a Government of National Unity in an attempt to diffuse ethnic tensions. As President, he established a new constitution and initiated the Truth and Reconciliation Commission to investigate past human rights abuses. Continuing the former government's liberal economic policy, his administration introduced measures to encourage land reform, combat poverty and expand healthcare services. Internationally, he acted as mediator between Libya and the United Kingdom in the Pan Am Flight 103 bombing trial, and oversaw military intervention in Lesotho. He declined to run for a second term, and was succeeded by his deputy Thabo Mbeki, subsequently becoming an elder statesman, focusing on charitable work in combating poverty and HIV/AIDS through the Nelson Mandela Foundation.
Controversial for much of his life, right-wing critics denounced Mandela as a terrorist and communist sympathiser. He has nevertheless received international acclaim for his anti-colonial and anti-apartheid stance, having received over 250 awards, including the 1993 Nobel Peace Prize, the US Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Soviet Order of Lenin. He is held in deep respect within South Africa, where he is often referred to by his Xhosa clan name of Madiba or as tata; he is often described as "the father of the nation".

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Egyptian workers were known to organize labor strikes

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Even though they regarded the pharaoh as a kind of living god, Egyptian workers were not afraid to protest for better working conditions. The most famous example came in the 12th century B.C. during the reign of the New Kingdom pharaoh Ramses III. When laborers engaged in building the royal necropolis at Deir el-Medina did not receive their usual payment of grain, they organized one of the first recorded strikes in history. The protest took the form of a sit-in: The workers simply entered nearby mortuary temples and refused to leave until their grievances were heard. The gamble worked, and the laborers were eventually given their overdue rations.

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Today in Labor History

June 26  --  Union Communications Services, Inc.

Members of the American Railway Union, led by Eugene V. Debs, refuse to handle Pullman cars, in solidarity with Pullman strikers. Two dozen strikers were killed over the course of the strike - 1894

The 189-mile-long St. Lawrence Seaway opens, making the Great Lakes accessible to Atlantic shipping.  Thousands of laborers toiled for decades to make it happen; indirectly and directly, the Seaway today supports 75,000 jobs in Canada and 150,000 in the U.S. - 1959


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Journey Revisited is an excellent example of professional musicians that love playing for the large crowds they draw at each event throughout the States. Watch this band as they will most likely be preforming for AXS Television next season. Contact Jeff Salado on Facebook to book the group.

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Ride for Alzheimers June 29


Another Teamster motorcycle ride and event for charity roars off Saturday, June 29 as the Teamster Horsemen Motorcycle Association chapter 42 goes to bat for Alzheimer's victims.

"Finding Nana's Cure" takes off from Glendale Harley-Davidson at 11 a.m. heading to Teamsters Local 848 in Long Beach. Doors open in Glendale to riders at 9 a.m. and is located at 3717 San Fernando Road, 91204. The Local 848 destination activities begin at 11 a.m. with a band, food, about 20 vendors and more. Also, entertainment for the kids. A $20 donation includes participants' food. 848 is located at 2888 Cherry Ave., 90807.

Donations and vendor information is available by phoning Gilbert Castillo at 626.407.6266, or emailing: THMA42CA@teamsterhorsemen42.org.

The Association also requests that any Teamster who has a family member afflicted by Alzheimer's who can use assistance, to call or email at the above contact points.

Today in Labor History

June 25  --  Union Communications Services, Inc.

More than 8,000 people attend the dedication ceremony for The Haymarket Martyrs Monument in Chicago, honoring those framed and executed for the bombing at Haymarket Square on May 4, 1886 - 1893

Fair Labor Standards Act passes Congress, banning child labor and setting the 40-hour work week - 1938

At the urging of black labor and civil rights leader A. Philip Randolph, Franklin Roosevelt issues an executive order barring discrimination in defense industries - 1941

Congress passes the Smith-Connally War Labor Disputes Act over President Franklin Roosevelt’s veto. It allows the federal government to seize and operate industries threatened by strikes that would interfere with war production. It was hurriedly created after the third coal strike in seven weeks - 1943
2013.06.24history-aerlex-plantA total of 21 workers are killed when a fireworks factory near Hallett, Okla., explodes - 1985

Decatur, Ill., police pepper-gas workers at A.E. Staley plant gate one year into the company's two-and-a-half-year lockout of Paperworkers Local 7837 - 1994

Certain Americans want to turn back the hands of time

By Haywood Galbreath
Certain Americans want to turn back the hands of time for unjust purposes!

Today, in a 5-4 decision the extreme right wing of the Supreme Court gutted a signature achievement of the Civil Rights Movement, the Voting Rights Act of 1965. The Court's decision to strike Section 4 of the law, is just one piece of a broader coordinated attack on the voting rights of Black people, women, young people and other people of color.

So they convinced you that they saw you as an equal wanted and want you to have all the rights, freedoms and opportunities that they do without struggle upon this land! Read the statement below and if you are wise you will take it to heart and not with malice in your heart but with sheer determination for what is right form this day forward pay close attention to the words and not let the past become the present or future!

“Those who refuse to look back at the pass at the mistakes they committed and or atrocities committed against them and their people! Are not only condemned to commit the mistakes of the past all over again! But also to watch those who committed the atrocities against them and their people continue to commit the atrocities because the committers of the atrocities know that not only did they get away with it! They can continue to get away with it! And will continue to get away with committing even more and greater atrocities”!
 
 

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Monday, June 24, 2013

Rex Hart Rest in Peace

Rex Hart on the left with Charlie Coleman














Just received word that retired Los Angeles Times Press room Supervisor Rex Hart has moved on to heaven. Mr. Hart began his career with the newspaper at the shuttered press room at Times Mirror Square and transferred to the Chatsworth Production Facility before retiring.

No further information to share at this moment. 

The Specials - Nelson Mandela

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Today in Labor History

June 24  --  Union Communications Services, Inc.2013.06.24history-nestor

Birth of Agnes Nestor, president of the Int’l Glove Workers Union and longtime leader of the Chicago Women's Trade Union League. She began work in a glove factory at age 14 - 1880

Seventeen workers are killed as methane explodes in a water tunnel under construction in Sylmar, Calif. - 1971

Sunday, June 23, 2013

Newspaper Circulation for Los Angeles, CA.



US NEWSPAPER - SEARCH RESULTS

Search Type: United States Circulation averages for the six months ended:
3/31/2013
State: California
Selection: los angeles (Contains)
Sort By: Title ASC
Results Found: 25

Preliminary figures subject to audit as filed with the Alliance for Audited Media.
* Total Circulation = Total Average Paid Circulation

Publication NameFrequencyCirculation TypeTotal Circulation*Filing Status
BREEZE, LOS ANGELES CO. (TORRANCE P.O.)SAT MDLY64,400
BREEZE, LOS ANGELES CO. (TORRANCE P.O.)AVG M (M-F)DLY76,618
BREEZE, LOS ANGELES CO. (TORRANCE P.O.)SUNDLY69,554
DAILY NEWS, LOS ANGELES (LOS ANGELES CO.)SAT MDLY76,496
DAILY NEWS, LOS ANGELES (LOS ANGELES CO.)AVG M (M-F)DLY82,431
DAILY NEWS, LOS ANGELES (LOS ANGELES CO.)SUNDLY94,073
INVESTORS BUSINESS DAILY, LOS ANGELES (LOS ANGELES CO.)AVG M (M-F)DLY157,161
LA OPINION, LOS ANGELES (LOS ANGELES CO.)SAT MDLY52,830
LA OPINION, LOS ANGELES (LOS ANGELES CO.)SUNDLY37,585
LA OPINION, LOS ANGELES (LOS ANGELES CO.)AVG M (M-F)DLY115,682
LOS ANGELES NEWSPAPER GROUP, LOS ANGELES CO. (WOODLAND HILLS P.O.)SAT MDLY301,277
LOS ANGELES NEWSPAPER GROUP, LOS ANGELES CO. (WOODLAND HILLS P.O.)AVG M (M-F) & AVG E (M-F)DLY422,171
LOS ANGELES NEWSPAPER GROUP (#), LOS ANGELES CO. (WOODLAND HILLS P.O.)SUNDLY494,061
PRESS-TELEGRAM, LOS ANGELES CO. (LONG BEACH P.O.)SUNDLY68,312
PRESS-TELEGRAM, LOS ANGELES CO. (LONG BEACH P.O.)AVG M (M-F)DLY75,850
PRESS-TELEGRAM, LOS ANGELES CO. (LONG BEACH P.O.)SAT MDLY57,768
SAN GABRIEL VALLEY TRIBUNE, LOS ANGELES CO. (WEST COVINA P.O.)SAT MDLY30,745
SAN GABRIEL VALLEY TRIBUNE, LOS ANGELES CO. (WEST COVINA P.O.)AVG M (M-F)DLY57,558
SAN GABRIEL VALLEY TRIBUNE, LOS ANGELES CO. (WEST COVINA P.O.)SUNDLY76,478
STAR-NEWS, LOS ANGELES CO. (PASADENA P.O.)SUNDLY36,966
STAR-NEWS, LOS ANGELES CO. (PASADENA P.O.)M (M-F)DLY23,365
STAR-NEWS, LOS ANGELES CO. (PASADENA P.O.)SAT MDLY21,064
TIMES, LOS ANGELES (LOS ANGELES CO.)SAT MDLY676,147
TIMES, LOS ANGELES (LOS ANGELES CO.)AVG M (M-F)DLY653,868
TIMES, LOS ANGELES (LOS ANGELES CO.)SUNDLY954,010


Filing Status: N/F - Publisher's Statement not filed by press time
T/S - Under Voluntary Temporary Suspension of Service
BC - Publisher's Statement not ncluded due to AAM Board Censure
W - Withheld from Snapshot pending Publisher's Materials
G - Not included due to extenuating circumstances - Hurricane
OC - Withheld pending completion of six month audit
NA - Not approved for release
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