It's interesting how it keeps getting harder to post to a sleeping website. I miss the days of multiple LAO updates - the energy was contagious. Meanwhile, here's a beautiful heron resting in the ...

Garcetti offered the good news--the Olympics on their way, two National Football League teams (both to play in Inglewood), raising the minimum wage. He dived into the bad--homelessness, the price of ...

The Times also named the editor who will oversee presidential campaign coverage and hired LZ Granderson, formerly of ESPN, as a hybrid sports and culture columnist.

Split, spilt, what's the difference really? KCAL oops grabbed and submitted by Don Bentley. Our occasional roundup of news, notes and chatter. Between posts you can keep up with LA Observed on Twitter ...

Norm Pearlstine, Patrick Soon-Shiong's choice to run the Los Angeles Times newsroom, has experience at the top of Time magazine, the Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg News. In recent months he has ...

In a surprising set of weekend pieces, the editor of the SoCal News Group and each of his papers call on readers to support local news. Or else.

I'm pretty sure the journalists at the Los Angeles Times never received any first greeting this warm from any of the people sent out from Chicago. Patrick Soon-Shiong doesn't take over until April, ...

The deal, if reached, would end the bizarre run of Tronc and Chicago investor Michael Ferro as California media owners. Soon-Shiong comes with questions of his own.

Lewis D'Vorkin is out -- who didn't see that coming? -- and Jim Kirk, last year's interim editor of the LA Times from Chicago, is being rushed back to stop the madness.

Stormy day on Wednesday at the Los Angeles Times. It began with a long and troubling Columbia Journalism Review story calling the current editor in chief "LA journalism’s ‘Prince of Darkness’" and ...

Fires in December The Thomas Fire now spreading into Santa Barbara County has become the fifth biggest in California (by acreage) since 1932, says CalFire. It was at 230,000 acres and 10 percent ...

"Hmm. Seems like there’s something different about the newsroom today," LA Times national reporter Matt Pearce tweeted. Our occasional roundup of news and notes. As always, between posts you can keep ...