Lesson 1: Disparities in Latino Health Care, a primer for reporters
Saturday March 8 at the CCNMA office in downtown Los Angeles.
Need some story ideas about an issue that really matters in Southern California?
Join us for a workshop sponsored by The California Wellness Foundation, and CCNMA-LA Chapter featuring Dr. Patricia Riba of the Community Care Health [...]
Archive for February, 2008
Workshop on Latino Health Care – March 8
Posted in Other Local Events on February 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Life At the Los Angeles Daily News
Posted in News on February 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Brent Hopkins, the Daily News reporter and union steward, muses about life and work at the Daily News on his blog, The Paper Trail. What follows is a fairly harsh critique of life under the MediaNews empire. Hopkins has apparently decided to hang up his pen and put on an LAPD uniform. Here’s an excerpt [...]
Press-Telegram to Become Daily Breeze Bureau?
Posted in News on February 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Oi. I’m starting to feel ill. I had no intention of starting this blog with so many successive layoff posts. However, that does appear to be the reality – maybe tomorrow will be better. It’s hard to know how it could be worse.
The latest comes from Dave Wielenga at The District Weekly in Long Beach:
The [...]
Daily News Union Steward Takes Buyout *
Posted in News on February 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
** UPDATED at 2:45 p.m. **
Reporter Brent Hopkins, the Daily News’ union steward and author of The Paper Trail blog, announced today he has decided to take the buyout. The offer is fairly anemic – a maximum of six weeks pay. Because of that, I’m guessing he probably has something lined up, though he does [...]
LA Times on Zell, Local Coverage & An Increasingly Grim Future
Posted in News on February 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
An article in today’s Los Angeles Times backs into the lede regarding job cuts at newspapers, starting off with job cuts at the San Jose Mercury News before delving into the increasingly grim morass that makes up the local layoff scene.
The article, as noted in LA Observed, does take Tribune owner/operator Sam Zell to task [...]
The Paparazzi vs. The Councilman
Posted in News on February 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The LA Weekly takes a look at Los Angeles City Councilman Dennis Zine’s proposed pararazzi crackdown, aimed at bringing the braying mobs of tabloid reporters, photographers and videographers to heel. The problem? It’s probably unconstitutional and difficult, if near impossible, to define “celebrity.” Here’s an excerpt:
Agitated by “reckless” and “out-of-control” photographers who jam sidewalks, [...]
Layoffs At Daily Breeze
Posted in News on February 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
As spotted in LA Observed:
Staffers who contacted me say nine positions at the Singleton-owned Daily Breeze were eliminated today, including four reporters, a web editor and a newsroom receptionist who were laid off. More San Pedro, which began publishing in 2003, was killed. A copy editor quit, reportedly to go to the Times, and two [...]
Paparazzo, SAG Member Added to Paparazzi Panel
Posted in Uncategorized on February 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
For Immediate Use Feb. 20, 2008
Contact: Alice Walton, SPJ/LA, (310)
595-5612
Pamm Fair, deputy national executive director, policy & planning, Screen Actors Guild, and Frank Griffin, co-owner of the paparazzi agency Bauer-Griffin, have joined the panel for the Greater Los Angeles chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists’ event on Tuesday, Feb. 26.
Join us for an exciting [...]
Councilman to Join Paparazzi Panel
Posted in Uncategorized on February 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
For Immediate Use
Feb. 8, 2008
Contact: Alice Walton, SPJ/LA, (310) 595-5612
Councilman Joins Panel for SPJ/LA’s Upcoming Event: “The People vs. the Paparazzi: Our Right to Privacy, Their Right to Know”
Los Angeles City Councilman Dennis Zine, who has introduced a motion to create a “personal safety zone” to more strictly regulate paparazzi, has joined the panel for the [...]
SPJ/LA Blog
Posted in Misc Comments, SPJ/LA Events, SPJ/LA News on February 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Hello there. My name is Dan Evans and I’m the Web administrator for the Society of Professional Journalists / Greater Los Angeles Chapter.
This blog is a group effort by the SPJ/LA Board of Directors. All board members will have the ability to post to this site. The topics, I suspect, will vary widely. Some members [...]
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