Los Angeles Times
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| Location: | Los Angeles, Calif. |
| Type: | News media |
| Year founded: | 1881 |
| Website: | Official website |
The Los Angeles Times (also known as the L.A. Times) is a daily newspaper published in Los Angeles, California.
As of 2015, the L.A. Times had won 43 Pulitzer Prizes since 1942. Of these 43 prizes, six were gold medals for public service.[1]
Circulation
The L.A. Times is one of the largest metropolitan daily newspapers in the United States. As of May 2016, according to the paper, it had a daily readership of 1.4 million and 2.5 million on Sundays. In addition, the paper reported that more than 36 million people visit the latimes.com on a monthly basis. Together, the L.A. Times had a combined print and online local weekly audience of 4.3 million readers at that time.[2]
History
The Los Angeles Times was first published on December 4, 1881, under the name of the Los Angeles Daily Times.[3][4] After the original founders of the newspaper found themselves with finance issues, it became property of its printer, the Mirror Printing Office and Book Bindery. After rebuilding and finding success, then-editor Harrison Gray Otis purchased the paper, and it officially became known as the Los Angeles Times in October 1886. The Chandlers, a well-known family of the Los Angeles area, inherited the newspaper after Otis' death and owned it from 1917 until 2000. In 2000, the Times was acquired by the Tribune Company.
Cite error: Closing </ref> missing for <ref> tag The company established Tribune Media as a spinoff company and rebranded as Tronc, Inc. in 2016. As of August 2017, Tronc owned the L.A. Times.[5]
Editorial positions
Below is a sampling of editorial positions the paper has taken on various political candidates, ballot measure issues, etc., covered by Ballotpedia.
2016 presidential endorsement
✓ The Los Angeles Times endorsed Hillary Clinton for the Democratic primary in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.[6]
- See also: Endorsements for Hillary Clinton
Ballot measure endorsements
The following table details Los Angeles Times' ballot measure stances available on Ballotpedia for local, state, and county measures on November ballots from 2008 to 2016:
Contact
Los Angeles Times
Mailing Address:
202 W. 1st St.
Los Angeles, CA 90012
Phone: (213) 237-5000[1]
See also
- California media
- California ballot propositions
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Los Angeles Times, "Times' Pulitzer Prizes," accessed June 23, 2015
- ↑ Los Angeles Times, "Facts," May 11, 2016
- ↑ Los Angeles Times, "About," accessed April 29, 2014
- ↑ Los Angeles Times, "The Times' 128-year history," accessed April 29, 2014
- ↑ Los Angeles Times, "L.A. Times owner buys out major shareholder that pushed for sale of company," March 23, 2017
- ↑ The Los Angeles Times, "Endorsement For all her faults, Hillary Clinton is vastly better prepared than Bernie Sanders for the presidency," May 13, 2016
- ↑ 7.00 7.01 7.02 7.03 7.04 7.05 7.06 7.07 7.08 7.09 7.10 7.11 7.12 7.13 7.14 7.15 7.16 Los Angeles Times, "A complete list of the L.A. Times' 2016 endorsements," November 5, 2016
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 8.4 8.5 8.6 Los Angeles Times, "The Los Angeles Times' endorsements in the Nov. 4 elections," October 30, 2014
- ↑ 9.00 9.01 9.02 9.03 9.04 9.05 9.06 9.07 9.08 9.09 9.10 9.11 9.12 9.13 Los Angeles Times, "2012 election: Los Angeles Times ballot endorsements, at a glance," October 23, 2012
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 10.3 10.4 10.5 10.6 10.7 10.8 Los Angeles Times, "On Tuesday's ballot," October 31, 2010
- ↑ 11.00 11.01 11.02 11.03 11.04 11.05 11.06 11.07 11.08 11.09 11.10 11.11 Los Angeles Times, "Ballot recommendations," November 3, 2008
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