Tuesday, December 13, 2011

LA Occasions Can get New Editor Suddenly: Showbiz Coverage Still Lazy And Irrelevant

Whether or not this’s Tuesday there needs to be considered a completely new La Occasions top editor. Much less it’ll matter to Hollywood since the newspaper’s entertainment business coverage remains smug, lazy, and naive.EditorRuss Stanton will step lower since the Editor/EVP on December 23 after four years andManaging Editor Davan Maharaj will need crazy newsroom job. He’ll end up being the paper’s 15th editor which is a 22-year LAT veteran. The condition statement from LAT Leader/COO Officer Kathy Thomsonin the paper only saysStanton “moves to the next factor of his career”.DuringStanton’stenure, the LAT newsroom staff shrank from greater than 900 people to around 550. As much asStanton tried to produce the LAT a bigger online presence, his leadership stressed celebrity over substance in entertainment coverage. Consequently thenewsosaur is nowirrelevant inside the Hollywood community as well as the proof is within the LAT‘sdwindling movie and tv advertising revenues.

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