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post #16 of 24
7/27/10 at 11:53pm
Not sure if this is what you're looking for, but here:

http://www.laweekly.com/2005-02-03/n...top-the-reign/
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post #17 of 24
7/28/10 at 1:53pm
i've got to say that our obit department really excells at doing these. the mandate is to find not only important people, but "interesting lives". the take isn't so much literary journalism, necessarily, as letting the life speak for itself. today we had: Jack Tatum Ben Keith (sob) and murray chaykin rather than a straight obit, what you may be thinking of is more what is called an "appreciation", a piece that places the subject in a more personal context. in all modesty, here's one i did on julia child.
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post #18 of 24
7/28/10 at 1:56pm
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i've got to say that our obit department really excells at doing these. the mandate is to find not only important people, but "interesting lives". the take isn't so much literary journalism, necessarily, as letting the life speak for itself. today we had:
Jack Tatum
Ben Keith (sob)
and murray chaykin

rather than a straight obit, what you may be thinking of is more what is called an "appreciation", a piece that places the subject in a more personal context. in all modesty, here's one i did on julia child.

How many people work at the LA Times now? Someone I know just started working there.
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post #19 of 24
7/28/10 at 1:58pm
don't depress me. i think the newsroom is down to about 600 ... it's still the second or third biggest in the country, but well down from where we were 6-7 years ago.
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post #20 of 24
7/28/10 at 1:59pm
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don't depress me. i think the newsroom is down to about 600 ... it's still the second or third biggest in the country, but well down from where we were 6-7 years ago.

Yeah, it's funny because it's still a hot ticket for the fresh journalism grads but everyone thinks it's on the way down.
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post #21 of 24
7/28/10 at 2:09pm
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Yeah, it's funny because it's still a hot ticket for the fresh journalism grads but everyone thinks it's on the way down.

i fail to see the humor. seriously ... i've been in this business since 1973, back when we were convinced the evening news was going to put us out of business. without a doubt there is a technological and financial restructuring going on ... we're in one of those unfortunate situations where the old order is being replaced but nobody yet knows what the new order will look like. still, we get about 90,000 page views a day at our food section. somehow i have to believe that if people like what you're doing, the money will come along eventually.
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post #22 of 24
7/28/10 at 2:18pm
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i fail to see the humor. seriously ... i've been in this business since 1973, back when we were convinced the evening news was going to put us out of business. without a doubt there is a technological and financial restructuring going on ... we're in one of those unfortunate situations where the old order is being replaced but nobody yet knows what the new order will look like. still, we get about 90,000 page views a day at our food section. somehow i have to believe that if people like what you're doing, the money will come along eventually.

Well if anything it will become a purely online publication at some point. Which isn't necessarily the end of the world for guys like you.
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post #23 of 24
7/28/10 at 2:32pm
You appear to ahve descovered an un-tapped seam of litterary genius, if you don't find the kind of thing you're looking for, have you considered writing it yourself? I think Metro S Thompson has a ring to it....
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post #24 of 24
7/28/10 at 2:32pm
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Well if anything it will become a purely online publication at some point. Which isn't necessarily the end of the world for guys like you.
this is getting seriously offtrack, and i apologize, but the fact of the matter is that the price of a printed newspaper doesn't cover the costs of printing it. it's the advertising that pays the way. so if online advertisers begin paying rates that are anywhere near comparable to print, suddenly we're in another boom (and, for all the doom and gloom, the la times still has been profitable as an operating unit every year).
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