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Reports the corporate reorganization of the Los Angeles Times in California. Takeover of the Tribune Co.; Termination of the services of chief executive officer Mark H. Willes and publisher Kathryn M. Downing; Information on the scandals surrounding the company; Recruitment of Miriam Pawel as editor; Potentials in the multimedia industry.

Reports on the changes in the management structure at `Los Angeles Times' newspaper after control of the paper's parent company passes to Tribune Co. Controversy over a revenue-sharing deal that hurt publisher Kathryn M. Downing and editor Michael Parks; Appointment of executives John Puerner and John Carroll as publisher and editor, respectively; Career highlights.

Reports that managing editor Leo Wolinsky was promoted to handle the day-to-day operations of the `Los Angeles Times' newspaper in Los Angeles, California. Recognition of employees' sentiments that authority was too centralized; Other management changes.

Reports on former `Los Angeles Times' periodical publisher Otis Chandler's rebuke of the paper's leadership for its ill-fated decision to share profits from a Sunday magazine with the Staples Center sports arena, the magazine's subject. Credibility-damaging potential of the deal; Chandler's emergence from self-imposed silence.

Reports on the recruitment of Mike Ramirez as staff editorial cartoonist for the `Los Angeles Times,' to replace Paul Conrad. Reason for Ramirez's appointment; Background on Ramirez; Ramirez's comment about his appointment.

Reports that some of the strongest statements yet by `Los Angeles Times' editors over the controversial Staples Center deal came out in a `San Francisco Examiner' story. Reaction to the the paper's deal to share revenues; Proof that corporate people have taken an operative role in the newspaper; Comments from Times' sports editor Bill Dwyre.

Reports on the marketwide advertising campaign launched by DDB Needham Worldwide for the `Los Angeles Times.' Description of the advertisements; Comments of advertising and marketing heads Janis Heaphy and Jeffrey S. Klein about the advertisements; Emphasis of the advertisements around the paper's editorial content.

Reports the increase in the daily newsstand price of Los Angeles Times. Cause of the price increase; List of other metropolitan dailies; Reflection of the journalism of Times.

Reports on Times Mirror chief executive officer Mark Willes' defense of `Los Angeles Times' publisher Kathryn Downing over her newspaper's revenue-sharing deal with the Staples Center arena in Los Angeles, California.

Reports that California's `Los Angeles Times' will eliminate 500 business division positions in a second phase of its cost-cutting program. Announcement of three expense-reduction phases; Elimination of door-to-door operations; Job cuts in the advertising department.

Discusses the controversy surrounding the `Los Angeles Times' newspaper's deal to split profits with the Staples Center arena in Los Angeles, California, from a Sunday magazine issue devoted to the arena itself. Confirmation of fears that the closeness of the news and advertising sides of the newspaper threatens its editorial integrity; Failure of the newspaper's editors to react promptly to the issue.

Talks about the fiasco surrounding the `Los Angeles Times' revenue sharing scheme with Staples Center. Reason behind the wall dividing editorial and business operations; Why the industrywide debate about the wall is necessary and urgent; Certain practices that editors and publishers disagree on.

Editorial. Pays tribute to the late Afro-American journalist Robert Richardson of the 'Los Angeles Times' newspaper who died on December 22, 2000. Coverage of race riots in 1965; Problem with alcoholism; Pioneering of diversity in the newspaper industry.

Focuses on the personal display advertisement placed by Santa Monica, California resident and self-syndicated columnist Amy Alkon in the February 13, 2000 issue of `Los Angeles Times.' Responses elicited by the advertisement; Value of the advertisement.

Comments on the controversy surrounding the `Los Angeles Times' newspaper's profit-sharing deal with the Staples Center arena in Los Angeles, California. Questions on the journalistic integrity embodied by the newspaper; Concerns on the growing closeness between advertising and journalism.

Reports on `The Los Angeles Times' newspaper of Los Angeles California's launching of `Reading by 9,' a new column in the publication that will focus on children that have not learned to read competently at the age of nine. Features of the column; Newspaper's news and feature coverage's direction of public attention to the merits of early literacy and identification of current problems in such area.

Report that the `Los Angeles Times' newspaper will cut 250 jobs, or about four percent of its staff. Consolidation of its daily Valley and Ventura editions into its B section; Comments by Kathryn M. Downing, chief executive officer.

Reports on the joint venture of the `Los Angeles Times' and the Los Angeles Convention & Visitors Bureau (LACVB) to produce a series of official guides to the city through Times on Demand. Coverage of the guides; Number of copies to be distributed; Features for the guides.

Profiles `Los Angeles Times' newspaper publisher Otis Chandler. Contributions to `Los Angeles Times'; Character and personality which was the opposite of his public image.