A diverse collection of Long Beach residents who don’t want to lose their hometown daily paper are gathering at Tuesday’s meeting of the City Council and are inviting everyone to join them.
The corporate owner of the Press-Telegram—a name connected to daily journalism in Long Beach for 110 years—announced Feb. 29 that the paper would be [...]

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 [...]