The News is Dead in L.A. Long Live the News.
If Mainstream News in Los Angeles Is Burning, What Should Rise from the Ashes?
Shriveling advertising revenue, circulation death spirals, rounds of layoffs, bankruptcies—it’s hard to read a story about the newspaper industry in Southern California these days that isn’t a dirge of doom and gloom or at least a tragicomedy. Local radio and television news stations seem to be doing better, but they’re under financial pressure, too. Cue the rending of garments and gnashing of teeth. But, as the Byrds and Ecclesiastes know, with every time to die, there is a time to be born. In advance of the Zócalo event, “What Kind …
