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People enjoying the 2009 Los Angeles Times Festival of Books at UCLA, a fun event for readers of all ages.

Los Angeles Times

The Los Angeles Times is a big newspaper from Los Angeles, California. It started in 1881 and is one of the largest newspapers in the Western United States. Many people read it online today.

The Los Angeles Times has won many Pulitzer Prizes for its great stories and photos. It covers important news, especially about California and Southern California. The newspaper is owned by Patrick Soon-Shiong and also gets money from ads and special articles.

The Los Angeles Times has been through many changes over the years. It has had different owners and needed to make changes to save money. In 2018, it moved to a new building in El Segundo, near the Los Angeles International Airport.

One fun thing about the Los Angeles Times is its yearly Festival of Books. This event happens in the spring and includes talks, displays, and performances. It started in 1996 and moves between different places each year.

The newspaper also gives out book prizes each year. These prizes are for many kinds of books, like biography, fiction, history, and books for young readers. There is even a special prize for writers connected to the American West.

Images

Portrait of Harry Chandler and Grey Otis, newspaper editors from the Los Angeles Times in 1917.
The Los Angeles Times building in El Segundo, California, shown in 2023.
An old newspaper vending machine left unused in a town in California.
The front page of the very first issue of the Avalon Wireless newspaper from March 25, 1903.
Portrait of Benjamin Franklin on the front of the Pulitzer Prize medal.
Artistic design of the reverse side of the Pulitzer Prize medal, showing a symbolic figure operating a printing press, representing public service in journalism.
A newspaper vending machine from 1984 showing an ad for the Los Angeles Olympics.

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California
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Western United States
Southern California
Los Angeles International Airport

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