- Los Angeles Downtown News
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Los Angeles Downtown News Type Weekly newspaper Format Long tabloid Owner Sue Laris Publisher Sue Laris Editor Sue Laris Founded 1972 Headquarters 1264 W. First Street
Los Angeles, California 90026
United StatesCirculation 44,805 (2010) Official website downtownnews.com http://searchdowntownla.com http://downtownladining.com http://downtownlaguide.com http://downtownlascene.com http://suelaris.com http://rosesandlemon.com http://downtownbreakfastclub.com The Los Angeles Downtown News is a free weekly newspaper in Los Angeles, California, serving the Downtown Los Angeles area.
The newspaper focuses on general news with an emphasis on real estate and business. The paper also devotes significant space to the arts scene in the area.
Coverage area is roughly bounded by the Los Angeles River to the north and east (excluding Echo Park), the University of Southern California and Exposition Park to the south and Alvarado Street to the west.
While considered by some as breezy and sometimes boosterish in tone, it provides invaluable coverage of the ongoing changes the downtown area is experiencing and often has insightful interviews with newsmakers.
Its news stories frequently scoop the Los Angeles Times and other media. The paper has also won dozens of journalism and industry awards.
The paper's masthead in 2001 briefly included entertainment blogger and former Associated Press correspondent Nikki Finke, who was hired as executive editor. [1]
Coverage area and history
From a 2001 Los Angeles Times story about the paper:[2]
"(Founder and editor Sue) Laris was a public school teacher and her then-husband Jim Laris worked for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in 1972 when they decided to start their own community newspaper. They targeted downtown because there weren't any other weeklies there at the time. When the couple divorced in 1979, Laris bought her husband's share of the business. Over the years, the newspaper's folksy approach and loyal advertisers sustained it while others succumbed to diminishing readership and the high cost of newsprint. Today, the Downtown News operates on a $1.7 million annual budget."
It publishes 49,000 copies every Monday. It is audited by VAC. Distributed Downtown Los Angeles, Wilshire Center, Pasadena, Glendale, Hollywood, Los Feliz, Silver Lake and Larchmont Village. [1]
References
- ^ Claudia Peschiutta, Executive editor of the Los Angeles Downtown News, Los Angeles Business Journal, November 19, 2001
- ^ Downtown News to Go for Uptown Feel, Look, Los Angeles Times, August 27, 2001
External links
Categories:- Newspapers published in the Greater Los Angeles Area
- Independent newspapers of the United States
- Publications established in 1972
- Californian newspaper stubs
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