If you think you like Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) for president better than his Democratic alternative, Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.), now’s the time for you to prove it.
Well, Wednesday actually. As the Press-Telegram’s Paul Eakins tells us this morning, the Vault 350 will host the “Barack the Vote Concert & Fundraiser” that night, featuring ex-Booker [...]

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 [...]

If you get around Long Beach a bit, you might have seen Press-Telegram Executive Editor Richard Archbold and his wife Pat–and P-T columnist Shirley Wild–helping judge yesterday’s Haute Dog Easter Parade in Belmont Shore, alongside yours truly.

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 [...]

(UPDATED AND EXTENDED VERSION OF AN EARLIER POST)
 The Long Beach City Council used harsh words and a unanimous vote against its erstwhile hometown newspaper Tuesday night, resolving to “reevaluate” the hundreds of thousands of dollars it spends with the Press-Telegram every year, now that the paper will be operated by the publisher of the Daily [...]

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 [...]

‘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 [...]

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 [...]