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Laurie Ochoa exits LA Weekly in 2009 — and the trajectory she landed on instead
By Maya Trent · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Kate Coe on FishbowlLA, June 2009 In early June 2009, LA Weekly editor-in-chief Laurie Ochoa announced she was leaving the paper. The FishbowlLA framing was characteristically blunt — “no idea if she was fired or finally just lost patience with the tomfoolery of the paper’s…
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Luke Thompson on Jim Rainey covering the LA Times — the recursive-reporting era
By Maya Trent · Originally reported by Kate Coe (2007) · Wayback archive → In mid-February 2007 LA Weekly freelancer Luke Thompson took a hard look at the LA Times’ Jim Rainey, the paper’s media reporter who had drawn the unenviable assignment of covering Tribune Company’s ongoing woes — including, awkwardly, its impact on his…
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Greg Stacy’s December 2006 OC Weekly farewell — the freelance-cut and the alt-weekly contraction’s early signal
By Maya Trent · Republished 2026-05-16 · Originally reported by Kate Coe on FishbowlLA, December 2006 In late December 2006, OC Weekly film writer Greg Stacy was informed — days before Christmas — that he was being let go as part of the Village Voice chain’s plan to stop using freelancers altogether. Stacy had been…