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.

Read the memo: The new LAT owner says buying the paper was deeply personal and he calls himself a longtime admirer of the Times journalists.

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.

"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 ...

The Los Angeles serial murder mystery known as the Grim Sleeper was basically cracked by an LA Weekly reporter, Christine Pelisek. The folks at LA Weekly were informed on Wednesday that the venerable ...

Tronc today pushed out Los Angeles Times editor-publisher Davan Maharaj (right) and replaced him as interim editor with Jim Kirk, the former editor of the Chicago Sun-Times. Managing editor Marc ...

Lynne Westmore Bloom, an artist who died Friday night at home in Encinitas, is best known for the work of guerrilla public art she created in 1966. Then known as Lynne Seemayer, she left her ...

Two more Metro reporters are leaving the Los Angeles Times staff. They are Jason Song, who has been covering education, and Garrett Therolf, the former county beat reporter who has been focusing on ...

Pulitzer winners for the Daily Breeze Frank Suraci, Rob Kuznia and Rebecca Kimitch. Daily Breeze photo: Robert Casillas When the Daily Breeze in the South Bay won its first-ever Pulitzer Prize last ...

Oscar reporters had to demand access to the ceremony after corporate suits took the LAT's passes. Also: could Davan Maharaj add publisher to his title?

Traditional mainstream news outlets are trying various models of following their readers to the web, and grappling with how to reorient the news staff to think web first and 24/7. The news hub idea ...