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Kevin Roderick

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    November 8, 2006

    The Los Angeles Times is Estupido

    Axes continue to fall at the Los Angeles Times, a still-great paper but one that's looking more and more like a mash-up of USA Today and The Orange County Register. The resignation of editor Dean Baquet stole the thunder from new publisher David Hiller's announcement earlier this week that he knows ... More >>

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    May 26, 2007

    Guardian scoffs at Times

    It's no secret that Jim O'Shea's memos magically find themseleves on Kevin Roderick's LA Observed. The Times chief joked about it himself at April's Festival of Books at UCLA, much to Roderick's delight. O'Shea's latest (published) missive was on the buyouts - 57 staffers are officially on their w ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 21, 2007

    David Z jumps ship

    It's no secret that Jim O'Shea's memos magically find themseleves on Kevin Roderick's LA Observed. The Times chief joked about it himself at April's Festival of Books at UCLA, much to Roderick's delight. O'Shea's latest (published) missive was on the buyouts - 57 staffers are officially on their w ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 23, 2007

    Thursday's Headlines

    About that balloon: The Register has an update on the Great Park balloon story for y'all. Ready? OK: People are actually riding it. Yep, that's the update. Later! (More balloon photos from the Weekly's trip here.) While the web editor's away: Kevin Roderick of LA Observed took a much-needed vacatio ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 31, 2007

    Marty Smith returns to Orange Coast Magazine

    After eight years with Los Angeles Times Magazine (where he's currently a senior editor), Martin Smith is heading back to OC to be editor-in-chief of Orange Coast Magazine. In a past life, Smith was staff writer and columnist for The Orange County Register. He went on to edit Orange Coast from 199 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 1, 2008

    ¡Ask a Mexican! As Extinct as Kudzu

    To paraphrase a paraphrase of Mark Twain, reports of my deportation have been greatly exaggerated. Yes, I know I announced last Thursday that I was ending my ¡Ask a Mexican! column, but few people seemingly bothered to read the line where I stated my self-deportation was "effective the feast day o ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 22, 2010

    KPFK Closes Online Music Archives

    KPFK, battling to reach Winter Fund Drive goal, has shut down their music archives, reports LA Observed, "due to copyright and licensing issues."Here's one of two emails Kevin Roderick posted 2/19:Sent: Fri 2/19/2010 3:01 PMTo: staffSubject: Attention: KPFK will no longer host online archives of Mu ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 17, 2010

    [UPDATED:] Long Beach's District Weekly WILL Fold

    UPDATE: LBPost.com reports District Weekly editor-in-chief Ellen Griley confirmed in an email that the paper will close. Unnamed sources also tell OC Weekly this is true. ​Just checked the home page of the District Weekly and was greeted by a headline that reads, "Pie in the Sky."That pretty much ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 4, 2011

    Register Newsroom Even Roomier?

    ​LA Observed's Kevin Roderick hints at something in his Media Notes that we here at the Weekly have been unable to confirm: there have been more staff reductions in a certain Santa Ana newsroom."Nudged early retirements, and possibly layoffs, have returned at the Orange County Register, a newsroo ... More >>

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