SoCal Sports Observed (Free subscription) | 20/10/2008
In a long blog post at Opinion L.A., editorial page editor Jim Newton says the paper's editorial supporting Barack Obama has gotten a near-record response...
PurpleSlog (Free subscription) | 12/11/2008
From IEEE Spectrum: You don’t need your own exercise equipment to get fit, so why do you need your own machine tools to build something cool? Such thinking led Jim Newton to found the first TechShop, a high‑tech workshop open to anyone who pays a modest membership fee. Think of it as a health club for geeks. [...]
Everyday Ethics (Free subscription) | 07/11/2008
LATimes.com Doyle McManus , the Los Angeles Times' Washington bureau chief since 1996, is "going to take the next few weeks to hone his ideas for the column, and we'll debut it early next year," says a memo from Times editorial page editor Jim Newton . || E&P: "I think it is a tragedy," ex-LAT editor Dean Baquet says about the changes in the Tribune papers' bureaus. || Chicago Tribune: Cissy...
SoCal Sports Observed (Free subscription) | 07/11/2008
As , Tribune just that it's merging the Washington bureaus of the Los Angeles Times and its other papers and placing the bureau under Cissy Baker, vice president/news operations for Tribune Broadcasting since 2003. Longtime LAT bureau chief Doyle McManus becomes an Op-Ed columnist for the Times. Here's a cheerleading memo from Times editor Russ Stanton and the news on McManus from Jim Newton,...
PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 07/11/2008
... for many years and to appreciate his superb journalistic judgment," said editorial pages editor, Jim Newton. "He is one of this The Times great souls and his keen analysis and graceful writing will now bring an important voice to our Opinion section." During his Time tenure, Doyle McManus has reported from Los Angeles, Tehran, Beirut, Central America, New York and Washington. He was State Department...
MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | 03/11/2008
LAT Pulitzer-Prize winning editorial writer Bill Stall died Sunday of complications from pulmonary disease. According to the obit by Jon Thurber : "Bill's legacy is his work," Jim Newton , the editorial page editor of The Times, said Sunday. "He was an incisive analyst of California government and politics whose writing on those subjects is as current today as it was when he wrote it -- testament...
LA Times (Free subscription) | 03/11/2008
... November and December 2003, may be found on The Times' website at ."Bill's legacy is his work," Jim Newton, the editorial page editor of The Times, said Sunday. "He was an incisive analyst of California government and politics whose writing on those subjects is as current today as it was when he wrote it -- testament to his prescience as well as to the enormity of the subjects he tackled....
MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | 30/10/2008
Jim Newton sent around an announcement that LAT vet Marjorie Miller , who returned to writing from editing in June, has moved over to Opinion. A distinguished journalist, her stories out of Israel rankled some, and we will be interested to hear what she really has to say about life, the universe and everything. Congratulations, Marjorie! New Career Opportunities Daily: The best jobs in media...
Everyday Ethics (Free subscription) | 20/10/2008
LATimes.com "I'm told this flood [of over 1,100 comments] represents a record -- or something close to it -- for reader response to a piece in The Times," writes editorial page editor Jim Newton , who notes that he doesn't know who Sam Zell supports for president. || Earlier: LAT endorses Obama for president.
