Introduction
The Los Angeles Times’ multimedia editorial department is one of the most formidable in the world – 20 foreign, eight national and four state bureaus - and the largest newsgathering operation west of the Mississippi.
The Times publishes five regional editions covering the Los Angeles metropolitan area, Orange and Ventura counties, the San Fernando Valley, and an Inland Empire edition covering Riverside and San Bernardino counties.
The weekday edition contains Main News, California, Business, Sports, Calendar and Classified sections and the expanded Sunday Times includes Business - Personal Finance & Real Estate, Sunday Calendar’s Arts & Books, Image, Real Estate, Travel and Comics.
The Times also publishes four weekly sections: Health (Monday), Food* (Wednesday), Home (Saturday) and Image (Sunday). The Envelope, the awards insider, appears weekly throughout Fall/Winter entertainment awards season and also publishes several issues to coincide with the Primetime Emmys.
In addition, LA, the new Sunday magazine, is distributed in the paper monthly and is created by a distinct editorial staff.
Online (www.latimes.com) The Times features more than 50,000 content pages and over 40 blogs covering topics from SoCal traffic to national politics and environment. The in-depth local coverage includes extensive high-school sports, the California Schools Guide database of test scores and demographics and Your Scene, user-submitted photos depicting “who we are and how we live.” The Guide (www.theguide.latimes.com) is the Southland’s single-most comprehensive and accessible entertainment destination on the web with event, restaurant, bars & clubs, outdoor, music, TV, film, theatre & stage and art & museum coverage and information - searchable by neighborhood, by lifestyle or by topic. The Times also produces The Envelope online (www.theenvelope.com), which offers year-round access to the latest entertainment awards news, videos, photo galleries and forums.
* One of the few U.S. newspaper companies operating a test kitchen. The Times tests 600-700 recipes annually, with only the best appearing weekly.