Los Angeles Times
American daily newspaper covering the Greater Los Angeles area
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| 2024 | The Times launched the 'L.A. Influential' series, featuring prominent moguls, artists, and community leaders in six categories. |
| December 2024 | Announced an AI-powered bias meter for the Los Angeles Times coverage, triggering staff resignations and subscription cancellations. |
| December 2024 | Retired from his position as cosmic affairs correspondent for the New York Times. |
| November 2024 | Fired the entire editorial board of the Los Angeles Times and announced plans to replace them. |
| October 2024 | Blocked the Los Angeles Times from endorsing Kamala Harris in the presidential election, leading to several editorial board resignations. |
| October 2024 | Owner Soon-Shiong instructed the newspaper not to endorse a presidential candidate, leading to the resignation of editor Mariel Garza, and Robert Greene and Karin Klein from the editorial board. Two hundred staff signed a protest letter, and thousands of subscribers cancelled their subscriptions. |
| August 2 2024 | Bayless left Undisputed and Fox Sports 1 after eight years on the network. |
| July 2024 | Sold the San Diego Union-Tribune to MediaNews Group. |
| April 8 2024 | Terry Tang was named the next executive editor of the Los Angeles Times. |
| March 11 2024 | The last issue of the Times was printed at the Olympic Boulevard printing press. |
| January 2024 | The newspaper undergoes its largest percentage reduction in headcount, with a layoff of over 20% of staff, including senior editorial positions, in an effort to address financial challenges. |
| January 23 2024 | The newspaper announced a layoff affecting at least 115 employees. |
| 2023 |
Brian Merchant
Published 'Blood in the Machine: the Origins of the Rebellion against Big Tech', a book examining technological labor and resistance against tech industry practices.
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| 2023 | After a personal attack made by Bayless against Shannon Sharpe, Sharpe left Undisputed following the conclusion of the NBA Finals. |
| August 2023 | Bayless relaunched Undisputed with new co-hosts Richard Sherman, Keyshawn Johnson, and Michael Irvin. |
| July 2023 | Sold the San Diego Union-Tribune to MediaNews Group. |
| July 9 2023 | Daily game coverage and box scores were eliminated, changing the sports section to feature less time-sensitive articles. |
| January 2023 |
Brian Merchant
Brian Merchant became the technology columnist at the Los Angeles Times, expanding his professional journalism career.
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| January 2 2023 | Bayless tweeted about the NFL's potential postponement of a game during Damar Hamlin's hospitalization, which was widely criticized as insensitive. He later issued an apology. |
| February 2022 | Invested in Sienza, a lithium battery company in Pasadena, California. |
| January 2022 | Opened a new manufacturing facility and campus in Cape Town, South Africa, with an investment of approximately $250 million. |
| 2021 | Merged NantKwest with ImmunityBio, creating a new publicly traded entity. |
| May 3 2021 | The newspaper selected Kevin Merida as the new executive editor, who was previously a senior vice president at ESPN. |
| March 2021 | Bayless signed a four-year, $32 million contract with Fox Sports. |
| 2020 | The Los Angeles Times won 75 awards at the Society for News Design (SND) awards for work completed in 2019. |
| September 10 2020 | Bayless criticized Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott for speaking about his depression, suggesting it was a sign of 'weakness'. |
| April 30 2020 | Charlie Plowman announced the acquisition of the Glendale News-Press, Burbank Leader, and La Cañada Valley Sun from Times Community Newspapers. |
| January 2020 | Charlie Plowman acquired the South Pasadena Review and San Marino Tribune from the Salter family. |
| 2019 | Became an investor in Directa Plus, a European graphene-based technology company, owning 28 percent. |
| 2019 | Reporters Harriet Ryan, Matt Hamilton, and Paul Pringle won a Pulitzer Prize for their investigation into a gynecologist accused of abusing students at the University of Southern California. |
| October 16 2019 | The Los Angeles Times staff finalizes their first union contract. |
| 2018 | The newspaper leaves its historic Times Mirror Square location after occupying the site since 1935. |
| September 2018 | NantEnergy announced the development of a zinc-air battery with a projected cost of $100 per kilowatt-hour. |
| July 2018 | The newspaper moves out of its historic downtown Los Angeles headquarters to a new facility in El Segundo, near Los Angeles International Airport. |
| June 2018 | Acquires ownership and becomes executive chairman of the Los Angeles Times. |
| June 18 2018 | Closed the sale of the Los Angeles Times and The San Diego Union-Tribune. |
| June 16 2018 | Norman Pearlstine was named executive editor on the same day the newspaper was sold to Patrick Soon-Shiong. |
| June 16 2018 | Sale of the Los Angeles Times to Patrick Soon-Shiong through Nant Capital was completed for $500 million, plus $90 million in pension liability assumption. |
| May 2018 | The Los Angeles Times blocked access to its online edition from most of Europe due to the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation. |
| January 19 2018 | Los Angeles Times employees in the news department voted 248-44 to be represented by the NewsGuild-CWA, successfully establishing a union despite management opposition and breaking the newspaper's long-standing anti-union history. |
| 2017 |
Brian Merchant
Published 'The One Device: the Secret History of the iPhone', a comprehensive book exploring the origins and development of the iPhone.
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| November 2017 | Walt Disney Studios initially blacklisted the Times from press screenings in retaliation for September reporting on Disney's political influence, but reversed this decision on November 7 after widespread media condemnation. |
| August 21 2017 | Ross Levinsohn, aged 54, was named publisher and CEO, replacing Davan Maharaj. |
| 2016 | The Times won the breaking news Pulitzer Prize for coverage of the San Bernardino mass shooting. |
| September 2016 | Skip Bayless debuted his new show, Skip and Shannon: Undisputed, alongside Shannon Sharpe on Fox Sports 1. |
| June 21 2016 | Bayless made his final appearance on First Take. |
| April 26 2016 | It was reported that Bayless had parted ways with ESPN and would be moving to Fox Sports after his contract expired in August. |
| 2015 | NantPharma purchased the drug Cynviloq from Sorrento Therapeutics for $90 million. |
| October 5 2015 | The Poynter Institute reported that at least 50 editorial positions would be cut through a buyout. |
| September 2015 | Austin Beutner was replaced as publisher and chief executive by Timothy E. Ryan. |
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