Los Angeles Downtown News

Type	Weekly newspaper
Format	Long tabloid
Owner	Sue Laris
Publisher	Sue Laris
Editor	Sue Laris
Founded	1972
Headquarters	1264 W. First Street Los Angeles, California 90026  United States
Circulation	49,000 printed weekly; 150,000 readers; web: 126,000 unique visitors/mo., 1.3 million hits
Official website	downtownnews.com http://searchdowntownla.com http://downtownladining.com http://downtownlaguide.com http://downtownlascene.com http://suelaris.com http://rosesandlemon.com http://downtownbreakfastclub.com

The Los Angeles Downtown News is a free weekly newspaper in Los Angeles, California, serving the Downtown Los Angeles area.

The newspaper focuses on general news with an emphasis on real estate and business. The paper also devotes significant space to the arts scene in the area.

Coverage area is roughly bounded by the Los Angeles River to the north and east (excluding Echo Park), the University of Southern California and Exposition Park to the south and Alvarado Street to the west.

While considered by some as breezy and sometimes boosterish in tone, it provides invaluable coverage of the ongoing changes the downtown area is experiencing and often has insightful interviews with newsmakers.

Its news stories frequently scoop the Los Angeles Times and other media. The paper has also won dozens of journalism and industry awards.

The paper's masthead in 2001 briefly included entertainment blogger and former Associated Press correspondent Nikki Finke, who was hired as executive editor.[1]

[edit] Coverage area and history

From a 2001 Los Angeles Times story about the paper:[2]

(Founder and editor Sue) Laris was a public school teacher and her then-husband Jim Laris worked for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in 1972 when they decided to start their own community newspaper. They targeted downtown because there weren't any other weeklies there at the time. When the couple divorced in 1979, Laris bought her husband's share of the business. Over the years, the newspaper's folksy approach and loyal advertisers sustained it while others succumbed to diminishing readership and the high cost of newsprint. Today, the Downtown News operates on a $1.7 million annual budget.

It publishes 49,000 copies every Monday. It is audited by VAC. Distributed Downtown Los Angeles, Wilshire Center, Pasadena, Glendale, Hollywood, Los Feliz, Silver Lake and Larchmont Village. [3]

[edit] External links

• Official site
• Downtown Marketplace
• Downtown LA Scene

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