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Three California community newspapers to close amid coronavirus

By
Keith J. Kelly
Published April 17, 2020, 6:47 p.m. ET

California Times, the parent company of the Los Angeles Times, will close down three of its five community newspapers in the LA metropolitan area, affecting about 14 people.

The move will shutter the 105-year-old Glendale News-Press, the Burbank Leader, which traces its roots to 1908, and the La Canada Valley Sun, founded in 1945.

The three papers were distributed free and supported through ads at a time when advertising has largely evaporated due to the coronavirus pandemic.

News-Press and Leader will publish their final editions on April 18, and Valley Sun will publish its last edition on April 23.

Two surviving weeklies, the Daily Pilot and TimesOC, will continue publishing in Orange County.

“A challenging business environment, including a decline in advertising revenue and the increasing cost of printing, has made it difficult to continue to support these publications,” California Times President Chris Argentieri and LA Times executive editor Norm Pearlstine said in a memo to staffers Thursday. “While the business environment has been challenging for some time, it has become extremely so due to the unexpected effects of COVID-19, which have led to the closure.”

Of the 14 people affected, 10 will be covered by severance deals hammered out between the company and the LA Times News Guild.

The LA Times earlier this week said it would furlough an undetermined number of people on the business side at the LA Times and San Diego Union Tribune.

It also said it will cut pay for its executives. The 600 people in the LA Times newsroom, who are unionized, have not been affected so far.

The News Guild said it would be meeting with management to discuss potential furloughs on the editorial side.

The five community papers were part of the $500 million deal in June 2018 to sell the Tribune Publishing dailies to health care billionaire Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong.