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.

The tough truth that Tom Hennessy never told

ILLUSTRATION by JOE MCGARRY
Tom Hennessy all but retired as the Press-Telegram’s daily columnist Sunday, all but silencing the most-prominent voice in Long Beach journalism. That’s sad to consider, and it gets even sadder the longer you do. It’s true, though: The most-prominent voice in Long Beach journalism is [...]

City may dig into Jergins Tunnel; college cops seek attacker
After languishing for a generation, the Jergins Tunnel–the underground pedestrian walkway that once gave amusement park visitors a traffic-free passage from the Jergins building to the Pike–inches closer to being saved.