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Reports that "The Los Angeles Times"--after winning five Pulitzer Prizes this year--has been forced by the newspaper's owners, the Tribune Company, to cut newsroom staff. Claim that Tribune executives Jack Fuller and Dennis J. Fitzsimmons told "Times" editor James S. Carroll and managing editor Dean P. Baquet in a recent meeting that the paper must trim staff due to a shortfall in the paper's advertising revenue; Reasons for the fall in ad revenues at the "Times;" Details of the financial performance of the Tribune Company, compared with competitors such as Gannett and E.W. Scripps.

Mayor Ron Dellums of Oakland said he had asked the state attorney general to investigate accusations about his police department's handling of the August 2007 killing of Chauncey Bailey, a prominent local journalist. Mr. Dellums's actions came after a series of articles by the Chauncey Bailey Project, a collective of investigative journalists, drew connections between an Oakland police detective and Yusef Bey IV, who is accused of running a criminal enterprise out of a Muslim bakery. One member of the bakery, Devaughndre Broussard, has been charged with murder in the death of Mr. Bailey, the editor of The Oakland Post. The paper, a weekly with an emphasis on black politics and culture, had been investigating the finances of the bakery. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]