Last night, a person or persons unknown slashed more than 100 tires on vehicles in San Pedro, hitting parked cars “near 21st Street between Gaffey Street and Pacific Avenue; Ninth Street and Patton Avenue; Sebastian and Channel streets; and Battery Street and Cabrillo Avenue” according to the Daily Breeze’s Donna Littlejohn.
That’s a huge loss for [...]

Remembering when the Press-Telegram was the most important paper in town

Burt Fleischman was a man of perpetual motion and one-track mind—perfect characteristics for a single-copy sales manager, the guy in charge of selling the Press-Telegram’s street edition more than a quarter-century ago. All the dailies used to have a street edition, a paper sold only [...]

A month after the corporation that owns the Press-Telegram fired its publisher and managing editor and put Long Beach’s once-grand daily newspaper under the control of the publisher and managing editor of the Torrance Daily Breeze, longtime P-T columnist Tom Hennessy finally checked in Sunday with his take on the traumatic events.
And? Amazingly, the man who has been [...]

This Week: Geraldine Ferraro, Horton Hears A Who! and Iraq Veterans Against the War
Tues | Mar 11 A few days ago, Long Beach’s defacto local paper, the South Bay Daily Breeze, printed a little story in anticipation of an appearance by 1984 Democratic Vice Presidential candidate Geraldine Ferraro in Torrance. The story was noteworthy if [...]

Long Beach’s daily newspaper is dead. Would someone please tell the management?

It probably would have been overkill if Dave Kuta had actually shown up for his long-scheduled panel discussion at Monday’s meeting of Leadership Long Beach. As it turned out, his absence at the prestigious personal-and-community-development course set an appropriate tone for the afternoon’s general [...]

The Press-Telegram not only made most of the news at Tuesday night’s meeting of the Long Beach City Council, but its local government expert, Paul Eakins, also reports that news in today’s paper. Eakins provides a clear and concise account of Tuesday night’s fallout from the February 29 restructuring at the paper — when it was put under the control of [...]

‘Mr. Press-Telegram’ cries over Wrigley Field while his newspaper is stolen away

ILLUSTRATION by JOE MCGARRY
It was March 1, the morning after the corporate kidnapping that took the Press-Telegram away from Long Beach, and a resident was telephoning The District in distress. She was devastated that MediaNews Group, Inc., had turned over Long Beach’s 110-year-old daily [...]

Long Beach lost its daily newspaper today. The Press-Telegram, a name synonymous with local journalism for 110 years, suffered deep staff cuts and a corporate restructuring that leaves it as little more than a bureau for the Torrance-based Daily Breeze.
MediaNews Group, Inc., the corporate parent of both papers, fired Press-Telegram publisher Dave Kuta, managing editor John Futch and nine newsroom [...]

A lot of folks post interesting comments on our website, both in response to–and, in some cases updating–our stories.
Yesterday afternoon, we noticed a comment from someone called Former Journo, in response to Dave Wielenga’s recent Nice Guy Finishes, At Last.

LAObserved caught on to Dave’s excellent story this week about Tom Hennessy–and the hits have been dragging in since. But read the story and you’ll know that for as much as it is about Hennessy, it’s got a greater weight: the death of the P-T.