L.A. Times Kills Local News Section; More Layoffs Announced

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Los Angeles Times Publisher Eddy Hartenstein has ordered the California section killed, leaving the Times without a separate local news front for the first time since the paper’s early decades.

The paper also is cutting 300 positions, 70 of them from the newsroom.

The publisher decided to fold local news inside the front section , which will be reconfigured to downplay national and foreign news , despite what an official of the paper told L.A. Observed was the unanimous and vocal objections of senior editors. Advertisers were informed on Wednesday.




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