Yesterday, Tony Dodero, editor of the Daily Pilot, Orange County's favorite source of snapshots of Daily Pilot readers holding aloft issues of the Daily Pilot from various exotic locations, wrote a heartfelt letter to readers. Titled "Taking Notes: Changes for the Future," Dodero announced what he claimed was a "big step into the new future" of print journalism, which is struggling to preserve itself in the face of reader apathy and competition from "the Internet, bloggers, Cragislist, Google, Y
Sad news about a really good guy, Tony Dodero: the former editor-in-chief of the Newport Beach/Costa Mesa Daily Pilot is being let go as the director of news and online for L.A. Times Community News publications, which include the Pilot, Huntington Beach Independent and Laguna Beach Coastline Pilot.
Following are Tony's letter to his staff and Bill Lobdell's take on the Pilot's demise. Lobdell, who recently left the Times where he wrote about religion, was the editor of the Pilot in the early
