Remember those Sunday mornings when the LA Times magazine was something to look forward to? Terrific profiles/color pieces/semi-newsy features—in-depth stuff you went back and read a second time (and, admit it, clipped and filed in your battered ol’ copy of Websters, under the appropriate word)? The ‘90s?
Remember how enraged you were in ’99 when it was disclosed that the sleazy bean-counters had cut a secret deal to share magazine ad revenue with Staples Center? How happy you were when
Apparently trying to compete with the Orange County Register for worst place to work on the planet, the Los Angeles Times is about to lay off 250 people, including 150 newsroom employees, according to a source who, for the time being at least, still actually works at the paper.
There's been rumors of imminent layoffs at the Times circulating for weeks, but this is the first time an actual number has surfaced.
No word yet on how many of those soon-to-be-ex-employees work in Orange County, but
With apologies to Orange County Register sports genius Randy Youngman, notes, quotes and observations, from this night's Orange County Press Clubs shindig at the Island Hotel near Fashion Island:
*Event was sold out, which meant there were around 150 people in attendance. Men wore suits; women, dresses. Me? Khakis and Chucks. Where was Frank Mickadeit to outschlub me?
*Menu was amazingly delicious considering it was catered. Starting with a salad that didn't suck (heirloom pear tomatoes), cont
Los Angeles Times management has laid off two more veteran reporters in its already-decimated Orange County bureau, according to Times sources.
The latest to leave will be Gil Reza and Christian Berthelsen, two outstanding veterans with long lists of accomplishments.
Amazingly, the Times OC editorial staff of six reporters (including three relative rookies) and one columnist is now smaller than ours at OC Weekly.
The bureau has lost veterans David Reyes, William Lobdell, Roy Rivenburg and D
