The Los Angeles Times is a daily newspaper published in Los Angeles, California. It is distributed around the world. It is ranked fifth in overall daily readership for U.S. newspapers. Mondo News: Los Angeles Times The #5 Newspaper in the USA The LA Times was first published in 1881 as the Los Angeles Daily Times. The paper has won 38 Pulitzer Prize Awards. In 2000, the paper was bought by the Chicago-based Tribune Company, which also owns dozens of Tv stations and eight other US daily newspapers.http://www.tribune.com/about/webguide/index.html
- The Los Angeles Times is printed in sections which include:
- Local news about what is happening in Southern California
- National news about the entire United States
- World news that is reported both by Times reporters and by the Associated Press through newswires
- Business stories about Los Angeles companies and about financial news worlwide that affects them
- Sports stories about Los Angeles professional and college football, basketball, baseball and hockey teams
- Entertainment news about the movie industry in Hollywood and local performances at the Los Angeles Music Center and other smaller venues
- Health advice from medical professionals
- A section on LA living, which focuses on fads and trends in home decor and home furnishings
- Travel news and advertisements on special deals from airlines, cruise lines and hotels around the world
- An opinion section for editorials and letters to the editor
- comics
- and classified ads for cars, houses, rentals, jobs, and personal property for sale.http://www.latimes.com/
Producing the Los Angeles Times
Long conveyor belts with shelves on them move the newspapers across the large room high up near the three story high ceiling overhead and up and down as they go to different areas for processing. This video shows the production process for writing, editing and printing the Los Angeles Times newspaper. Writing and editing are computerized. Blue machines print, cut and fold the newspapers.