Los Angeles Times
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| Type | Daily newspaper |
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| Owner(s) | Tronc, Inc. |
| Publisher | Davan Maharaj (also, Editor-in-Chief) |
| Founded | December 4, 1881 (as Los Angeles Daily Times) |
| Language | English |
| Headquarters | 202 West 1st Street Los Angeles, California 90012 |
| Country | United States |
| Circulation | 653,868 Daily 954,010 Sunday (as of March 2013) |
| ISSN | 0458-3035 |
| OCLC number | 3638237 |
| Website | latimes |
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| Industry | Media |
| Fate | Acquired by Argyle Television (sold to New World Communications in 1994) |
| Founded | 1946 (as KTTV, Inc.) |
| Defunct | 1993 (inactive, 1963–1970) |
| Headquarters | Los Angeles, California |
| Products | Broadcast and cable television |
| Website | www |
The Los Angeles Times, commonly referred to as the Times or LA Times, is a paid daily newspaper published in Los Angeles, California, since 1881. It was the largest metropolitan newspaper in circulation in the United States in 2008 and the fourth most widely distributed newspaper in the country. In 2000, the Tribune Company, parent company of both the Chicago Tribune and local television station KTLA, purchased the Los Angeles Times by acquiring its parent company, the Times Mirror Company. The Times is currently owned by tronc (formerly known as Tribune Publishing).
The Times was first published on December 4, 1881, as the Los Angeles Daily Times under the direction of Nathan Cole Jr. and Thomas Gardiner. It was first printed at the Mirror printing plant, owned by Jesse Yarnell and T.J. Caystile. Unable to pay the printing bill, Cole and Gardiner turned the paper over to the Mirror Company. In the meantime, S.J. Mathes had joined the firm, and it was at his insistence that the Times continued publication. In July 1882, Harrison Gray Otis moved from Santa Barbara to become the paper's editor. Otis made the Times a financial success.
In an era where newspapers were driven by party politics, the Times was directed at Republican readers. As was typical of newspapers of the time, the Times would sit on stories for several days, notably including the 1884 victory of Democratic presidential candidate Grover Cleveland.
Historian Kevin Starr wrote that Otis was a businessman "capable of manipulating the entire apparatus of politics and public opinion for his own enrichment". Otis's editorial policy was based on civic boosterism, extolling the virtues of Los Angeles and promoting its growth. Toward those ends, the paper supported efforts to expand the city's water supply by acquiring the rights to the water supply of the Owens Valley in the California Water Wars, a set of events fictionalized in the Roman Polanski movie Chinatown.
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