Los Angeles Times Launches New Home Section
LOS ANGELES--Southern California is widely recognized for its rich history of architectural and garden styles and trend-setting design. On Thursday, April 17, the Los Angeles Times will introduce Home, a new weekly section that captures the full and diverse experience of home life in Southern California.
“We live in a region where trends in lifestyle, architecture, interior design and landscaping are born,” said Barbara King, editor, Home. “The places we call home are at the center of our lives, and the Home section will reflect the broad, wondrous scope of how we live in them.”
King, who joined The Times in March, is a veteran journalist with expertise in home coverage. Most recently she served as senior articles editor for Architectural Digest. She also served as senior editor and writer for Town & Country and was a freelance writer for Harper’s Bazaar and Good Housekeeping.
New features in Home include:
Regular features on every aspect of the home itself, from interior design to landscaping to personal relationships. Highlights include:
Architecture and Design
Regular features with beautiful, dramatic shots of interesting people in interesting spaces.
Gardens
Focusing on private gardens and reflecting the lush abundance of flora and landscaping designs in Southern California.
Technology
Keeping you up- to- date with reviews of the latest in technological gizmos that The Times staff has personally tested.
What You’ll Want to Buy
The Times’ picks of great new products on the market for both indoor and outdoor living, and where to find them.
What You’ll Need to Know
Service-oriented features on a variety of subjects, from how to polish antiques to updates on noise laws to caring for your pets.
Relationships
How we live and relate to others in our home environments, whether family, friends, neighbors, housekeepers or contractors.
Last October, the Los Angeles Times began a two-year program to revitalize its Features sections, beginning with the revamped daily, Weekend and Sunday Calendar sections, as well as the Food and Health sections. Home, launching on April 17, is the first of three new sections planned for 2003. In the fall, new sections on the outdoors and on fashion and beauty will be introduced.
The new Features report is designed to reinvent The Times coverage of entertainment, lifestyle and culture to better reflect life in Southern California in a voice that’s expressly for the West Coast. When the Features redesign is completed, Times readers will receive both Calendar and a weekly section every weekday.
The Los Angeles Times, a Tribune Publishing company, is the largest metropolitan daily newspaper in the country and the winner of 30 Pulitzer Prizes, including three this year in national reporting, feature writing and feature photography. The Times publishes four daily regional editions covering the Los Angeles metropolitan area, Orange and Ventura counties and the San Fernando Valley, as well as a National edition.