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LA Weekly company history timeline

1978

Voice Media announced in January that it was putting LA Weekly up for sale. It said at the time that the publication, founded in 1978, was still profitable.

2006

Harold Meyerson, once the Weekly's political editor, charged in a departing email to Weekly staffers in 2006 that the new owners had grafted a cookie-cutter template for editorial content onto the publication.

2007

And in 2007 it became the first newspaper to be awarded the Pulitzer Prize for restaurant criticism.

2008

A native Angeleno, she joined the Los Angeles Times in 2008.

Since 2008, LA Weekly has hosted a food and wine festival, now dubbed The Essentials, that draws sizable crowds.

2009

But in the 2009 LA Press Club Awards, the Weekly won six first-place awards, including three by staff writer Christine Pelisek, who was honored as the city's best reporter in investigative reporting, hard news, and news feature.

In late 2009, the paper hired Dennis Romero, formerly of Ciudad magazine, as a full-time news blogger.

2011

When Heikes left in 2011, he was replaced by Sarah Fenske.

2012

Following the recession, in 2012, the paper added food critic Besha Rodell, a James Beard Foundation Award nominee and former food editor of Atlanta's Creative Loafing.

2013

As part of its selling spree, Voice Media jettisoned San Francisco’s SF Weekly in 2013.

2015

A month ago, New York’s famed Village Voice — which Voice Media sold off in 2015 — published its final print edition, going online only.

2016

In 2016, LA Weekly named multimedia journalist and Emmy-winning producer Drew Tewksbury as managing editor.

2022

Real Estate Christian Slater wants $3.95 million for Miami villa July 12, 2022 World & Nation Gas used to cost less than bottled water in the UAE. Now there’s a reckoning July 12, 2022 Business Brewers need cans.

Five days passed before his body was found July 12, 2022

Preston A Dent reflects the essence of an imperfect empire July 12, 2022

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