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The website FTV Live reported Monday morning that longtime Los Angeles TV and radio personality Steve Edwards — the host of "Good Day LA" on Fox 11 — was fired "after sexual harassment allegations ...

This week the New York Times is testing the concept of a morning newsletter on California news. This morning's first one, written by Los Angeles bureau reporter Ian Lovett, starts with an update on ...

The 1935 LA Times building is in the foreground, at 1st and Spring. To the rear left, at 2nd and Spring, is the 1948 Mirror building. The 1970s Times Mirror wing, at 1st and Broadway, is what would be ...

Now this is Hollywood, and a place where some people will do anything to promote anything. So it could be just that: a promo for something yet to be revealed. But it seems that on Page A7 of Monday's ...

Edited and updated after publication. In advance of more moves anticipated Wednesday by Tribune Publishing, Politico's Ken Doctor has two good stories about new dramas inside the Los Angeles Times and ...

Wednesday was the last day of work for many of the close to 80 newsroom staffers who are leaving the Los Angeles Times, with farewell gatherings and toasts in several departments. "Hysterical," is how ...

For her NPR piece on the Day of the Dead celebration at Hollywood Forever cemetery, Los Angeles correspondent Mandalit del Barco hooked up with El Mariachi Manchester. Their thing is they cover songs ...

Austin Beutner makes an appearance this weekend on CNN's "Reliable Sources," taking questions from host Brian Stelter about his firing as publisher of the Los Angeles Times and the future of ...

A little bit different view of the LA Times building. If you had any doubts that the Los Angeles Times newsrooms (all of them) are consumed with one topic right now — whether to take the buyout or ...

Patricia Marroquin, a former Los Angeles Times editor now the communications director for the UC Santa Barbara graduate division, posted one of her old LAT reporter notebooks on Facebook for Throwback ...