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L.A. Times Masthead Massacre Capped a Month of Newsroom Turmoil
Aug 22, 2017 | Variety
By Gene Maddaus & Ricardo Lopez
The ouster of four top editors at the L.A. Times on Monday was the result of a month of newsroom turmoil following the publication of an investigation into the former dean of the USC medical school. -
Can Ross Levinsohn Fix the Broken LA Times?
Aug 22, 2017 | The Wrap
By Matt Pressberg
Ross Levinsohn, newly named as the publisher and CEO of the Los Angeles Times, is the latest executive to promise a turnaround of the long-declining newspaper, which has lurched from years of bankruptcy to new leadership that has so far failed to reverse its declining fortunes, even as competitors like the New York Times and Washington Post are thriving. -
Newsonomics: After a purge, the Los Angeles Times (still) searches for a future
Aug 22, 2017 | Nieman Lab
By Ken Doctor
On Monday, the long-time irresistible force that is Davan Maharaj finally found an immovable object. Maharaj, until Monday editor and publisher of the fourth largest newspaper newsroom in the country, got his walking papers from Tronc. Was that a surprise? No. The surprise came in the sweeping changes that accompanied the departure of the Los Angeles Times’ editor for the last five-plus years. -
Indian American editor at LA Times fired
Aug 22, 2017 | News India
By Staff
Indian American Davan Maharaj, the editor in chief and publisher of the Los Angeles Times, was fired Monday at breakfast along with some of his other colleagues. -
John and Ken
Aug 23, 2017 | KFIAM (KFI)
By Los Angeles
VIDEO LINK: http://app.criticalmention.com/app/#clip/view/28967953?token=1f922127-458c-40cd-b502-9aaf51b81803 Rough Transcript: "magazine says that really what because the ouster this is interesting as you know the l. a. times been run is running a series of stories on the former dean of the u. s. c. medical school yeah their common i wasn't put a policy tell you these engaging in drugs and drinking and sit and sex right and a twenty one year old escort overdosed in a hotel room what he was president he's a huge fundraiser for the school and he was 7:56 PMas dean and the series' stories indicated that usc a administration looked the other way or running wild but a bit upset with that story for weeks . well and according to the top investigative reporter paul critical he filed complaints alleging that they were sitting on the story to the clues the relations between the editors usc officials ran into what those relations are us he puts on the festival box . oh the deal for them they advertize it for months in advance by coming soon the festival box that went to that 20 and he did tell it was a radio station and i tell you but you don't remember on our radio station's not this idea the other i do remember i didn't go to that you know what it was 20 years ago and it's i didn't know yet to come in a disco a yes i remember when he did her and i read . that was his people what authors satin boots waiting for its . 7:57 PMshall we signed autographs on it well they claim was that did this month mirage and another one of these saturday . this was going to easing on the university due to the papers partnership with usc to put on the festival blocks by i just reached the breaking point all these complaints and that yesterday that they they said goodbye to the editor-in-chief with some other . but not always electing a vice president of the bank to get to tie the editor of the newspaper found in the desert to lead his civilian deputy managing editor assistant managing editor of independent investigations he does not . we did you like to lead a delicate but delayed about a doctor no joy or darden's or someone as usual wisdom the best odds to then it was over and they have this would regard the website it's that why we took a stand against a . lester waiting slayings in journalism as people they send really just unpleasant yeah i'd then don't think it's %hesitation yeah one newspaper people are like that gaddis i don't understand the reference people have they think they're author is is a holier and now kind of i don't know well it's a priest in journalism as priests and these people finally come back here and the effort to get rid of the leader of republicans in the assembly in sacramento is a failure in round one chad mazes still in that post is the one that round up the votes to raise your gas prices."
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L.A. Times Masthead Massacre Capped a Month of Newsroom Turmoil
Aug 22, 2017 | Variety
By Gene Maddaus & Ricardo Lopez
The ouster of four top editors at the L.A. Times on Monday was the result of a month of newsroom turmoil following the publication of an investigation into the former dean of the USC medical school.
Sources familiar with the situation tell Variety that the paper’s top investigative reporter, Paul Pringle, filed complaints with the human resources department about top editors, alleging that the story was being delayed due to cozy relations between the editors and USC officials. Tronc, the paper’s parent company, responded with an internal investigation. The probe did not find any substantiation for the complaint, but did open the floodgates to additional newsroom grievances against the paper’s leadership, culminating with the dismissal of Davan Maharaj, the editor and publisher, managing editor Marc Duvoisin, and two other top lieutenants.
The Times published its blockbuster report on Dr. Carmen Puliafito on July 17, finding that the dean was a methamphetamine user who partied with drug dealers and was present when a 21-year-old escort overdosed in a hotel room. The report was a major coup for the Times, and knocked USC officials back on their heels. But it also kicked up underlying resentment and bitterness within the paper, according to several newsroom sources who spoke to Variety on the condition of anonymity.
The Times was first tipped off to the Puliafito story more than a year ago. Initial drafts were not deemed fit for publication, according to several newsroom sources. As reporting went on over the course of several months, Pringle began to complain that Maharaj and Duvoisin were dragging their feet and trying to quash the story, say these sources.
Pringle, who declined to comment for this story, had filed his complaint earlier this year alleging that Maharaj and Duvoisin were going easy on the university due to the paper’s partnership with USC to put on the Festival of Books. Tronc began to investigate those claims.
The story was published, and widely hailed. USC was forced to launch its own inquiry, and acknowledged that the situation was poorly handled. But the success of the story did not end the hard feelings within the paper. Pringle filed a new complaint with HR alleging that Maharaj and Duvoisin caused an improper delay in publication.
A couple of weeks later, reporters got wind that California editor Shelby Grad was about to be transferred to a new assignment. Pringle and his supporters on the Metro staff interpreted the move as retaliation for Grad’s staunch support for the USC story. Several newsroom sources said that Grad had encouraged the reporters to pursue the story in the face of skepticism from Maharaj and Duvoisin. Grad and Maharaj declined to comment for this story.
In an email to Tim Ryan, the president of publishing at Tronc, a group of 15 reporters expressed concern that Grad’s transfer “shortly after fighting for publication of the USC story” raised concerns about potential “conflicts,” and “possible ethical lapses that could damage the reputation of the Los Angeles Times.” Pringle was not among the 15 who signed the letter.
The email, obtained by Variety, touched off another HR investigation at Tronc. Newsroom sources say that many people have been interviewed in recent weeks. The investigators began to hear many other complaints against Maharaj and his team. For some time, several Metro staffers have grumbled about low pay and the lack of raises in recent years, and talked about organizing a union.
By last Friday, it became clear that the HR investigation posed a serious threat to the top editors. That morning, several editors wrote to Tronc CEO Justin Dearborn and chairman Michael Ferro, requesting an immediate meeting.
“We ask you to meet with us today, as a group, to discuss a Human Resources investigation that has disrupted our workplace for more than a month,” the editors wrote. “We are concerned about the repercussions for the news organization.”
On Monday, those repercussions became clear. Maharaj and Duvoisin were out, along with investigations editor Matt Doig, and digital editor Megan Garvey. Jill Leovy, the founder of “The Homicide Report” blog and author of “Ghettoside,” was also fired. She is Duvoisin’s wife. Ana Mata, Maharaj’s administrative assistant, was also let go.
Tronc concluded there were no improprieties in the handling of the USC story, according to a published report by the Los Angeles Times. The four were not let go for cause, and Tronc referred to the personnel moves as a “restructuring.”
While the newsroom rebellion may have been the catalyst that undid Maharaj and his team, it appears that Tronc’s leadership was already contemplating a change at the top.
Veteran media executive Ross Levinsohn was appointed the new publisher, and Jim Kirk, former editor and publisher of the Chicago Sun-Times, was named interim editor.
In an interview with the Times, Dearborn praised Levinsohn as an “avid reader” and someone who is “passionate about journalism.”
“What we need right now is someone who has broader global vision and someone who can execute on that,” Dearborn told the paper.
At an all-hands meeting at 3 p.m. on Monday at the Times’ community room, Levinsohn and Kirk declined to discuss the firings. Instead, they vowed to “invest in the brand.”
Staffing cuts are a perennial source of anxiety at a newsroom that has seen wave after wave of buyouts. According to sources in the meeting, Levinsohn and Kirk offered assurances that they did not come to the paper to make further cutbacks. However, Times staffers have heard such promises before from new leadership.
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Can Ross Levinsohn Fix the Broken LA Times?
Aug 22, 2017 | The Wrap
By Matt Pressberg
Ross Levinsohn, newly named as the publisher and CEO of the Los Angeles Times, is the latest executive to promise a turnaround of the long-declining newspaper, which has lurched from years of bankruptcy to new leadership that has so far failed to reverse its declining fortunes, even as competitors like the New York Times and Washington Post are thriving.
Michael Ferro, the swashbuckling tech millionaire who 18 months ago bought a controlling stake in Tribune and renamed it tronc — to widespread ridicule — has not yet delivered on a year-old promise to pivot the company to an aggressive video news strategy, or even make it a leader in digital news.
“This new structure will allow us to expand the reach of our great journalism and realize our business objectives, including elevating and better integrating digital processes that are critical for our future,” tronc CEO Justin Dearborn said in a memo to the newsroom on Monday.
However, it remains unclear what the digital strategy might be and whether Levinsohn has the wherewithal to change things.
Levinsohn, a media veteran, has plenty of experience: he went from News Corp, where he oversaw the acquisition of MySpace, to Yahoo, where he briefly served as interim chief executive ahead of Marissa Mayer, to Guggenheim Digital Media (owner of The Hollywood Reporter), where he was pushed out after a power struggle with chieftess Janice Min, and then to executive chairman of sports-focused portal Scout Media, the latter of which declared bankruptcy in December.
Before Scout went bankrupt, Levinsohn outlined his plans for “morphing” text-only scout.com to a “100 percent video” strategy, telling a digital media conference last year: “Video is central to everything going on; best monetization, highest CPM, only subscription services. Premium content matters more than ever today.”
Bankruptcy followed in December, which several engineers blamed on Russian activist investors. Today’s scout.com is full of text articles.
The Los Angeles Times and Levinsohn did not respond to multiple requests to comment for this story.
Scout’s downfall may not have any bearing on Levinsohn’s ability to succeed at the Times, but it shows the downside of what’s become a favored strategy for struggling print publications: the pivot to video. The paper is also suffering from low newsroom morale, anemic web traffic, a failure to stem the bleeding from the death of the print ad business and a declining stock price that may not give him tons of room to maneuver.
“You’ve got a publication that has been treading water at a moment when other big publishers have been pushing forward,” Gabriel Kahn, a professor at the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School of Communication and Journalism who follows the economics of the newspaper industry, told TheWrap. “Both in the content and the sources of revenue, particularly subscriptions.”
Tronc, the parent company of the Times, Chicago Tribune and several other papers, reported a 9 percent year-over-year dip in total revenue during the second quarter, with a 15 percent drop in ad revenue. Its digital division, troncX, saw its revenue slide 5 percent. Tronc’s stock is down 11 percent over the past 52 weeks, while shares of the New York Times are up 41 percent over that same period.
At the same time tronc has struggled to gain traction in the new news ecosystem, the New York Times has been able to build a thriving digital business, increasing total revenue by 9 percent year-over-year and grew its ad revenue less than 1 percent even as the print ad business continues to deteriorate. Digital ad revenue jumped 23 percent in the quarter, and it added nearly 100,000 digital-only subscribers year-over-year.
And even without subscriptions, the Los Angeles Times hasn’t been able to compete in terms of general web traffic. Its website is currently the 211th ranked site in the U.S. according to analytics firm Alexa, while the New York Times is ranked 31 and the Washington Post checks in at number 39.
Aside from his business directive, Levinsohn’s appointment also came with a complete beheading of the top editorial management team — including editor and publisher Davan Maharaj, managing editor Marc Duvoisin, deputy managing editor for digital Megan Garvey and assistant managing editor of investigations Matt Doig – giving the new boss few scapegoats if his approach fails to bear fruit. Former Chicago Sun-Times editor and publisher Jim Kirk was named interim editor, and he faces the separate task of improving morale in the newsroom, which multiple individuals have said is worse than it’s been in years, with one calling it “the escalating tronc s—show.”
The Times has had some recent journalistic successes, notably its expose on a former USC medical school dean who had been abusing drugs with prostitutes, but that hasn’t necessarily boosted its business fortunes. The USC investigation may, however, have played an important role in the departure of Maharaj and some of his top lieutenants Monday.
Multiple individuals in the newsroom told TheWrap there were complaints about a what looked like a slow-rolling of the story, which affected an important corporate partner. Maharaj’s perceived disrespect of female employees had also raised some eyebrows in the newsroom, other individuals said.
Complaints about the USC story and subsequent proposed editorial moves, such as a plan to transfer California editor Shelby Grad to a new beat, prompted a human resources investigation, individuals in the newsroom told TheWrap, which culminated in Monday’s editorial decapitation after numerous reporters expressed concerns with top brass.
“The investigation was related to the USC story and you see what happened,” an individual in the newsroom told TheWrap.
However, at least one individual in the newsroom, who is not a Maharaj supporter, said an initial edit of the story had several issues that contributed to the delay.
In a seemingly unrelated move, managing editor Larry Ingrassia also announced his intent to retire over the weekend, which further depletes the paper’s bench of experienced editors as it enters a new era.
Levinsohn also has to try to fulfill the futuristic promise Ferro and tronc’s second-largest shareholder Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong (who has since had a falling out with Ferro), made last year, when they pledged to use machine-learning technology to power the venerable publication into the digital age, publishing thousands of videos a day.
But that machine-learning revolution has failed to materialize, and in fact, the newspaper remains hamstrung by old technology, including an archaic content-management system, two individuals with knowledge of the newsroom told TheWrap. Rather than become a digital leader itself, in March, Tronc signed on to use the Washington Post’s content-management system, Arc, which one of those individuals said is finally being implemented.
“Plenty of people here have been very frustrated with the systems,” one individual told TheWrap.
But Kahn thinks there’s still plenty of potential at the Times for Levinsohn to tap if he can deliver what the digital audience really wants — something worth subscribing to, not auto-play video.
“The Los Angeles Times has a tremendous opportunity,” Kahn said. “They are the biggest and most developed newsgathering operation in California. That’s a big card to play.”
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Newsonomics: After a purge, the Los Angeles Times (still) searches for a future
Aug 22, 2017 | Nieman Lab
By Ken Doctor
On Monday, the long-time irresistible force that is Davan Maharaj finally found an immovable object. Maharaj, until Monday editor and publisher of the fourth largest newspaper newsroom in the country, got his walking papers from Tronc. Was that a surprise? No. The surprise came in the sweeping changes that accompanied the departure of the Los Angeles Times’ editor for the last five-plus years.
In fact, Maharaj had a remarkable run as a tightrope walker on one of the highest wires of American journalism. A 28-year Times veteran, he managed under old Tribune management, Sam Zell, Jack Griffin, Austin Beutner, and Michael Ferro — a feat that may be worth one of those little Oscar statuettes that Tronc’s current chairman, Ferro, seems to be so enamored with. What finally did him in?
It’s a Rashomon-like tale, with unending angles of view. “Metro led the charge” against the editor/publisher, says one insider. While Maharaj had managed to walk that tightrope to keep the level of Times journalism at high levels, parts of his Metro news staff — in many ways the heart of an operation like the Times — considered him a man apart. Even as the Times published national-ranking exclusives, most recently on the lurid double life of a USC medical dean, and last year on Oxycontin addiction, the distrust remained, and then grew.
Earlier in the year, staffers filed complaints about Maharaj, ironically in part about the handling of those high-profile stories. (Variety has good details here.) Meanwhile, Maharaj’s often-rocky relationship with his two bosses, chairman Ferro and CEO Justin Dearborn, didn’t get any better. One continuing issue: how much the newsroom would continue to be cut — it’s down to about 400 staffers from about 550 five years ago — as Tronc continues to make big expense cuts to maintain profit. Even as parts of his newsroom expressed concerns about his leadership, Maharaj continued to push back against those cuts, preserving as much of the staffing as he could. He also pushed back on efforts to use Times’ journalism to satisfy Ferro’s own business interests. But any complaint could serve as convenient pretext for Ferro.
Simultaneously, the Newspaper Guild has been quietly mounting a unionization effort at the Times, and less-than-popular newsroom leadership would only increase the chances of its success there. Word on the L.A. streets is that Maharaj’s departure may tamp down that union drive.
Add it all up, and that’s a lot of wind on the high wire.
By the weekend, Ferro and Dearborn made their decision, and Dearborn told Maharaj about it over breakfast, the first step in a quick series of unexpected phone calls.
Letting go a top editor isn’t unusual. What shocked even those who had wanted Maharaj out was the the firing of three other members of Maharaj’s management team. His managing editor and sidekick Marc Duvoisin, digital editor Megan Garvey, and investigations editor Matt Doig all got their walking papers, as did award-winning reporter Jill Leovy. As LA Observed put it, “the reason seems to be that Leovy is married to one of the axed editors,” Duvoisin. Further, in this very selective layoff, Tronc fired Maharaj’s administrative assistant Ana Mata. The word “purge” came quickly to mind.
While there’s much to plumb in the who, what, when, and where of those firings, even this unprecedented canning is but a sideshow to the larger drama here: What is the future of the once nationally powerful Los Angeles Times?
In the short term, Tronc has brought in digital executive Ross Levinsohn. Though his digital business cred is real — mainly proven out at Fox a digital generation ago — we know little about his current knowledge on the business models that indeed are working at the highest levels of American daily journalism. And make no mistake, that’s what the L.A. Times should be again — especially in the Trump era — and even what its current owners say they want it to be.
As Maharaj, who added the publisher title to his editor duties only a year ago, was dispatched overnight, Levinsohn became, astonishingly, the fifth Times publisher in the past 10 years. That’s perhaps the only data point you need in the lesson of how not to build (or rebuild) a great national newspaper brand. Great journalism brands demand steadiness — and investment. Tronc, as a single-class public company careening from one announced transformation strategy after another has shown little ability for either. (In fact, further word is that Malcolm CasSelle, Tronc’s digital guru and cohost of its infamous Tronc video, left Tronc’s employ last week. His cohost, digital manager Anne Vasquez, is no longer a prominent presence in the company.)
Once again Monday, Tronc cloaked its big news, with a big fuzzy vision. To be sure, with any kind of change, companies like to paint a growth story — and new publisher and CEO Ross Levinsohn did that.
“We have global ambitions for this brand, and I believe the Los Angeles Times has the potential to further expand and deepen its societal and cultural impact regionally, nationally and around the world,” said Levinsohn.
Just a year ago, Tronc had made a similar declaration, announcing what I called the Lagos Gambit. No strategy nor funding has enabled that strategy. In fact, as a single-class public company, it has little cash to spare. For the second quarter, Tronc reported $6.8 million in net income. That’s behind the further whacking of three corporate executives, also buried in yesterday’s news. Instead of finding limited capital to build a “world-class” Times, Ferro’s Tronc has tried and failed to buy the Orange County Register, US Weekly, and the Chicago Sun-Times — each a possibly minimally accretive investment, but none that would help achieve that grand new L.A. Times dream.
That dream of matching the reborn success of The New York Times and The Washington Post actually diminishes each year — even though the state and country would well benefit from such a revival.
Consider that as L.A. Times newsroom staffing has shriveled, the Post now houses almost twice as many journalists, along with many more technologists to support their audience growth. The New York Times boasts a newsroom budget more than three times that of the L.A. Times and is relatively stable.
Both companies have heavily invested in content and technology — the two fulcra of the digital content business — and are now, after years of investment, seeing the results. If Michael Ferro truly wants to rebuild the L.A. Times, he need not reinvent the business, as he promised to do after renaming Tribune Tronc last year. He simply needs to find the money and follow the playbook of the two major success stories in American newspapering.
He has taken at least one smart step, licensing the Post’s Arc technology platform, with its first installation moving forward in Los Angeles. But the most important ingredients in the Times’ and Post’s rebuilding are a belief, and a funding, for their journalism.
Alternatively, Ferro could sell the paper — or see it bought out from under him if his once-partner, now-foe Patrick Soon-Shiong attempts a buyout of the Times early next year. Or another Jeff Bezos could come out of the woodwork, and make Ferro an offer he couldn’t refuse, as others have suggested as recently as today.
So how much is the Times worth?
Tronc counted $181 million in EBITDA in 2016. Figure the Times contributes no more than a third of that. At a standard multiple of 4-4.5× in today’s market, that would put the price in the $300 million range, $50 million more than Bezos paid for the Post. But what about it trophy value? It’s diminished, but even a tarnished Times might pick a small premium.
In the shorter term, Jim Kirk, another Chicago guy — the perennial plague of the Los Angeles newsroom ever since Tribune bought Times Mirror way back in 2000 for $6.5 billion — becomes interim executive editor of the Times. In L.A., Ferro and Dearborn have reversed their executive strategy — which combined editor/publisher into a single position at each newspaper property last year. Levinsohn takes over the business side, while Kirk oversees the newsroom.
In fact, Kirk’s number one task will probably be an assessment. That could means other heads could roll. It’s no secret: Tronc needs more cost savings, after that dismal Q2 financial report. The sad truth about Tronc — one that its executives have confided privately — is that it’s really been ongoing management by triage. News executives wanting to preserve as much of their newsroom capacity as possible have been forced to make journalistic Sophie’s choice after Sophie’s choice.
If Tronc executives really want to embrace a more global news strategy — “be more like The New York Times,” in the parlance of some execs — will Los Angeles-oriented and California-oriented resources be moved? If so, how might that impact the Times’ one positive movement, its increase in the number of digital subscribers?
Even those who complained about the Maharaj reign may reconsider what they wished for as that assessment moves forward.
Kirk just departed the just-sold Chicago Sun-Times, assuming a strategic role for Tronc. Within days, he was approached with a new opportunity: taking over — in the interim, at least — the L.A. Times. Will he stay? Is he really interim? Levinsohn says that he and Kirk are already in search of a permanent replacement.
The big question there: What kind of money and a contract would it take to attract a national caliber editor with digital savvy? What will it take for someone of stature to step into the chaotic Tronc? If Tronc believes it’s serious about its new national pursuit, it may have compiled a shortlist of New York Times and Washington Post talent.
Clearly, parts of the Times newsroom helped engineer this massive change at the top. Now, how much of an opportunity will they have to shape the next future? (The same could be asked about Kirk.) And how will a newsroom that has gotten more digital — but far less digital than the Post and the New York Times — get itself to that future? Beyond personalities, these are the real questions that loom this week.
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Indian American editor at LA Times fired
Aug 22, 2017 | News India
By Staff
Indian American Davan Maharaj, the editor in chief and publisher of the Los Angeles Times, was fired Monday at breakfast along with some of his other colleagues.
Indian American Davan Maharaj, the editor in chief and publisher of the Los Angeles Times, was fired Monday at breakfast along with some of his other colleagues.
According to a CNN report, after becoming editor in chief in 2011 and publisher in 2016, Maharaj became a polarizing presence at the newspaper, which was supported by some staffers but maligned by many detractors.
In a Los Angeles magazine article last year stated that with Maharaj in charge, the newsroom “has been overtaken by fear” and according to the authorative local blog LAObserved, there “has been upset in the newsroom over Maharaj’s handling of the recent investigative series on former USC medical school dean Dr. Carmen Puliafito. Some staffers had sent a letter to Tronc headquarters complaining about Maharaj’s leadership.”
Maharaj did not comment about his termination however in an interview with CNN earlier this year Maharaj pointed to the recent hiring of investigative journalists and the new digital extensions as evidence of the LA Times’ ambitions.
“We have to keep the print product vibrant, because it also provides most of the revenue right now,” he told CNN.
Jim Kirk, the former top editor of the Chicago Sun-Times, will be replacing Maharaj as an interim executive editor while the company will start looking for another one.
Ross Levinsohn, the former Yahoo and Fox Interactive Media executive will take over the position of publisher.
Levinsohn told CNNMoney that he will try to position the Los Angeles Times for “sustainable, long-term growth.”
“We’re in a moment where the need for the L.A. Times — for journalism, for facts and for reporting — has never been greater, and I see so much potential to grow our impact,” Levinsohn said adding that he wants to invest more into “groundbreaking journalism” about entertainment, art, tech, climate change and other subject matter.
Justin Dearborn, the CEO of Tronc, holding company of the LA Times, told Poynter that the firings were necessary to give Levinsohn an opportunity to bring in leaders that support his vision for the Los Angeles Times.
“We don’t do it lightly, but he’s got to build a team with a digital-first mindset to maintain the integrity of the great journalism that we do here,” Dearborn said.
“My focus is pretty simple. This in my mind, is the most important time to be in the news business. The Los Angeles Times has incredible journalists, and there’s never been a more important time to produce incredible journalism and get it out on all these platforms,” Levinsohn told Poynter.
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Aug 23, 2017 | KFIAM (KFI)
By Los Angeles
VIDEO LINK: http://app.criticalmention.com/app/#clip/view/28967953?token=1f922127-458c-40cd-b502-9aaf51b81803
Rough Transcript: "magazine says that really what because the ouster this is interesting as you know the l. a. times been run is running a series of stories on the former dean of the u. s. c. medical school yeah their common i wasn't put a policy tell you these engaging in drugs and drinking and sit and sex right and a twenty one year old escort overdosed in a hotel room what he was president he's a huge fundraiser for the school and he was 7:56 PMas dean and the series' stories indicated that usc a administration looked the other way or running wild but a bit upset with that story for weeks . well and according to the top investigative reporter paul critical he filed complaints alleging that they were sitting on the story to the clues the relations between the editors usc officials ran into what those relations are us he puts on the festival box . oh the deal for them they advertize it for months in advance by coming soon the festival box that went to that 20 and he did tell it was a radio station and i tell you but you don't remember on our radio station's not this idea the other i do remember i didn't go to that you know what it was 20 years ago and it's i didn't know yet to come in a disco a yes i remember when he did her and i read . that was his people what authors satin boots waiting for its . 7:57 PMshall we signed autographs on it well they claim was that did this month mirage and another one of these saturday . this was going to easing on the university due to the papers partnership with usc to put on the festival blocks by i just reached the breaking point all these complaints and that yesterday that they they said goodbye to the editor-in-chief with some other . but not always electing a vice president of the bank to get to tie the editor of the newspaper found in the desert to lead his civilian deputy managing editor assistant managing editor of independent investigations he does not . we did you like to lead a delicate but delayed about a doctor no joy or darden's or someone as usual wisdom the best odds to then it was over and they have this would regard the website it's that why we took a stand against a . lester waiting slayings in journalism as people they send really just unpleasant yeah i'd then don't think it's %hesitation yeah one newspaper people are like that gaddis i don't understand the reference people have they think they're author is is a holier and now kind of i don't know well it's a priest in journalism as priests and these people finally come back here and the effort to get rid of the leader of republicans in the assembly in sacramento is a failure in round one chad mazes still in that post is the one that round up the votes to raise your gas prices."
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