OR GIVE IT TO THE DISTRICT!
Missing from P-T reporter Wendy Thomas Russell’s otherwise fine overview of the low-profile battle over city advertising revenue is this: there shouldn’t be any revenue.
“With newspaper revenue falling nationwide, . . . state-mandated ads and notices are in higher demand than ever before,” she wrote today. “In fact, they’ve become [...]

You may know Paul Oberjuerge as the sports columnist for the San Bernardino Sun or may know him because I kinda ripped him up a while ago for writing, what I thought, was a pretty crappy column about LA Times columnist Christine Daniels in which he said she was “not an attractive woman.”
I took him [...]

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.

Is Long Beach losing its daily paper?

JOE SEGURA by RUSS ROCA
The Press-Telegram is officially approaching its 10th birthday. If that number sounds a bit unbelievable for an institution that’s been around for more than a century, well, that’s the way Long Beach’s daily paper does things under the regime of its Colorado-based corporate owner, Dean [...]