How to build one hell-monster of a city

ILLUSTRATION by LUKE MCGARRY
It was a stark and dorky night, and young James C. Hankla was alone (as per usual) in his native Wilmington, the so-called Heart of the Harbor, when a fiendish plan seeped from his feverish brain, a diabolical scheme to transform Long Beach, the well-known [...]

Three more members of the ever-smaller Press-Telegram newsgathering team were among a dozen employees laid off Thursday, the latest cost-cutting move by MediaNews Corp., the paper’s Denver-based owner.
Out the newsroom door are photographer Scott Smeltzer, reporter Brenda Duran and website operator Joe Dickson. Among the others turned loose are Fred Murdoch, a fixture in the [...]

A month after the corporation that owns the Press-Telegram fired its publisher and managing editor and put Long Beach’s once-grand daily newspaper under the control of the publisher and managing editor of the Torrance Daily Breeze, longtime P-T columnist Tom Hennessy finally checked in Sunday with his take on the traumatic events.
And? Amazingly, the man who has been [...]

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.

Long Beach’s daily newspaper is dead. Would someone please tell the management?

It probably would have been overkill if Dave Kuta had actually shown up for his long-scheduled panel discussion at Monday’s meeting of Leadership Long Beach. As it turned out, his absence at the prestigious personal-and-community-development course set an appropriate tone for the afternoon’s general [...]

(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 [...]

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 [...]