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When the LA Times invented an ‘Innovation Editor’ role — and what happened next
By Jordan Vega · Originally reported by Kate Coe (2007) · Wayback archive → In late January 2007 the Los Angeles Times announced that Joel Sappell was out as Assistant Managing Editor for Interactive and that Business Editor Russ Stanton was moving into a newly created post called Innovation Editor. The title sounded like a…
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The LA Times hires a Sassy and Entertainment Weekly veteran to relaunch Calendar Weekend
By Sasha Park · Republished 2026-05-21 · Originally reported by Kate on FishbowlLA, 2006 In late 2006, the Los Angeles Times was still investing in its weekend arts coverage — and went looking for an editor with magazine pedigree. Then FishbowlLA reported that LA Times editor John Montorio had told the newsroom that Mary Kaye…
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The 2006 LA Times Spring Street Project memo — read it now and weep, or read it now and learn
By Maya Trent · Originally reported by Mayrav Saar (2006) · Wayback archive → The single most clarifying document about what happened to the Los Angeles Times across the 2000s, 2010s, and 2020s is the seven-page internal memo a committee of Times journalists handed to incoming editor James O’Shea on December 1, 2006. FishbowlLA published…