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"Examiner" Re-Examined: Anschutz WON'T Launch a Paper?
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Hmmm.
Mega-mogul Phil "Kings/ StaplesCenter/ Narnia/ Qwest" Anschutz has acquired the domain LosAngelesExaminer.com but a flack says he has no immediate plans to launch a newspaper of the same name.
"Examiner" has sort of become the town pump as far as L.A. media brands go.
Some actually gave it a very good ride ...
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The name had several print incarnations, first as the Los Angeles Examiner (1903-1962), the Los Angeles Evening and Sunday Herald Examiner (1962-1977) and the Los Angeles Herald Examiner (1977-1989), according to this page. (Here's Wikipedia's take.)
It had a glorious Spanish-revival headquarters downtown.
A ddozen years later, Matt Layne and Ken Welch Matt Welch and Ken Layne launched the LAExaminer media blog, ran it for a couple years, and folded it in 2003 to pursue other projects.
Someone lit it up again briefly in '04 before folding it. (Here's the amusing what-for).
And somewhere in the middle of all that, Welch and Layne worked for quite a while to help ex-Mayor Dick Riordan exorcise (or perhaps exercise) his hard-on for the L.A. Times by developing a prototype Los Angeles Examiner newspaper.
Once the prototype came out it was snappy-looking, festooned with interesting bylines (Lynda Obst, Billy Crystal, James Q. Wilson, Joel Kotkin, Jill Stewart, Cathy Seipp, Bill Boyarsky, Susan Estrich, Gene Lichtenstein and Andy Klein, etc.) and well-reviewed by the Times' Tim Rutten, who quaintly referred to the Welch/Layne blog as "an interactive local news digest."
Riordan envisioned it as hitting the marble doorsteps of BevHills, BelAir and other high-end neighborhoods on weekly basis at first, but hey, the sky was the limit, and if people's interest grew ... Well, it never published again, due perhaps to a shortage of solid long-term cash.
As for Matt? Maybe he's angling to sell his domain. Wonder what Anschutz would pay?
(via LAist)
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| Posted by: Mack_Reed on Friday, February 17, 2006 - 10:16 AM
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