With now-former publisher Phillip Sanfield en route to the Port of Los Angeles, where he’ll be director of media reiations, the Press-Telegram and its sister paper, the Daily Breeze of Torrance, have been in the market for a publisher.
And now they have one, the Press-Telegram reports this afternoon, with a story by Donna Littlejohn, a [...]

According to the Press-Telegram, its publisher Mark Ficarra–who’s also publisher of the P-T sister paper, the Daily Breeze of Torrance–will leave MediaNews Group some time in the next several weeks to become the San Diego Union-Tribune’s vice president of sales and marketing.
This must mean there are jobs in journalism after all. Or … maybe just [...]

Our main man Dean Singleton, who owns the Press-Telegram in Long Beach, the Daily Breeze in Torrance–and a slew of other newspapers in California and across the nation–is in today’s New York Times talking about how his MediaNews Group won’t be defaulting on the rather large debt it racked up buying all those, well, newspapers.
Thought [...]

More bad news from MediaNews Group, the Colorado-based conglomerate that owns the Long Beach Press-Telegram and the Daily Breeze in Torrance.
LAObserved.com posts a memo from Breeze Executive Editor Phillip Sanfield saying the
newspaper’s four sections will be abbreviated to two on Monday and Tuesdays beginning next week. (It’s there; just scroll down the page a bit.)
And [...]

This has been a rough week in journalism, thanks in no small part to our main man Dean Singleton, who owns the Press-Telegram, and the Daily Breeze in Torrance.

Imports through the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach dropped “a combined 12.1 percent” last month, according to the Daily Breeze’s Art Marroquin, whose story is also carried in today’s Press-Telegram.
Does that mean you’re not getting a new flat-screen TV for Christmas? Depends.
“Overall, the Port of Los Angeles has experienced a 4.81 percent drop [...]

Yep, it’s true, according to Daily Breeze reporter Gene Maddaus, whose story was picked up by the Press-Telegram: Sarah Palin, everyone.
The Republican vice presidential candidate will hold a rally Oct. 4 at 2 p.m., at the Home Depot Center in Carson–so start lining up your tickets now.
Should be quite a scene.

Guess who had the best weekend ever? Why it’s our running-unopposed-in-November Congresswoman Laura Richardson (D-Long Beach)! Yay!
As the Daily Breeze’s Gene Maddaus reported Saturday, if you missed it, Richardson finally officially got her house in Sacramento back. (Meaning … house-warming gifts, or no?)
Quick refresher: this is the house in Sacramento which the congresswoman purchased during [...]

That’s right: Congresswoman Laura Richardson’s (D-Long Beach) automotive hijinks apparently continued after she left Long Beach City Council in late 2006–failing, until recently, to pay the repair bills on her own BMW.
As the Daily Breeze’s Gene Maddaus reports today, upon arriving in Washington, D.C. last fall, Richardson promptly leased the most expensive car of any [...]

Yes, it appears to be true.
You remember the Sacramento house which now-Rep. Laura Richardson (D-Long Beach) purchased during her brief time last year as a state assemblywoman–after she left Long Beach City Council and before she ran and was elected to United States Congress last year?
And you remember how Richardson stopped paying her mortgage on [...]