From Lewis D'Vorkin - Editor in Chief - LA Times

From: D'Vorkin, Lewis
Sent: Monday, January 08, 2018 7:17 AM
To: yyeditall
Subject: Re: A great start to 2018...

To all,

I’m very excited to begin the new year — and we kicked it off in fantastic fashion with strong journalism across the newsroom.

More than ever, our mission is to serve our audience as only we can. The Los Angeles Times plays a critical role for a vast geographical area. I’ve described it as a community of readers that extends from the Pacific Northwest to Latin America and the Pacific Rim. I’ve been visiting with various city officials and residents over the last few months and I’ve been struck by their interpretation of LA's sprawling influence. Los Angeles, as one said, is the northern capital of Latin America and the western capital of Asia. That very astute observation offers a powerful way for us to focus our news reporting and the significant resources we can marshal to do what we love to do.

In fact, we began the year with just such coverage. Please take a look at the four Page One’s below, each of which supplied great content for our website and social followers. (Brett: Sorry, I don't have the attachments.) I’ve also attached some Arc modules published on Sunday night during the Golden Globes that speaks to our great reporting on topics of intense interest to our readers.

We have the opportunity to do what the LA Times uniquely can do and The New York Times and Washington Post can’t do. And that’s to cover the news in our part of the world with a singular focus. The attached Page Ones and Home Page elements did exactly that.

A few call-outs:

*The Toback story on Sunday: Kudos to Glenn Whipp for applying a first person account to fantastic weeks of reporting.
*The Sunday Rams Home-Groan Effort headline: Kudos to Dave Bowman.
*The Home Page Refer Madness headline: Kudos to Hailey Branson-Potts and Shelby Grad.
*An amazing Instagram Story from the Golden Globes red carpet: Kudos to Tre’vell Anderson and Amy Kaufman.

And, thanks to Mary McNamara, Dan Strauss and the entire team that worked to produce compelling content for last night’s Golden Globes. Many people spent weeks to prepare for the Globes, then worked long hours and executed with precision for our website, varying social platforms and, of course, this morning’s newspaper. It’s exactly the type of multiplatform effort that will drive all our thinking and execution in the year ahead.

We’re going to chart an innovative path forward in 2018 and I’m confident we will do so with all the professionalism that has marked 136 years of this storied news organization.

Thanks for believing,

Lewis