Zachary Pincus-Roth takes over LA Weekly arts and culture — a 2011 masthead transition

By Jordan Vega · Originally reported by Matthew Fleischer (2011) · Wayback archive →

In late February 2011 LA Weekly EIC Drex Heikes named Zachary Pincus-Roth the alt-weekly’s new arts and culture editor — filling the role opened by Tom Christie’s November 2010 exit. Pincus-Roth came from Variety with substantial freelance bylines at the LA Times, NYT, Slate, and Los Angeles Magazine.

Then

The opening had been created by Tom Christie’s 15-year departure. The Pincus-Roth hire was the Weekly’s attempt to find a new arts editor in a thinner editorial environment, under a Voice Media Group ownership that was already reducing staffing across its alt-weekly portfolio.

Now

Pincus-Roth ran the LA Weekly arts coverage for a stretch before moving on. The broader trajectory of the publication — VMG restructuring, eventual 2017 sale to Semanal Media, mass editorial departures — meant the role was substantially gone by the late 2010s. The LA Weekly arts coverage Christie had run and Pincus-Roth inherited was, structurally, never reproduced after the Voice-Media-to-Semanal transition.

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