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The publisher of the Los Angeles Times since June 16, 2018, has been Patrick Soon-Shiong, who purchased the newspaper from the Tribune Company of Chicago. Soon-Shiong replaced Ross Levinsohn , who was appointed to the position in August of 2017 following the firing of publisher Davan Maharaj . [ 1 ]
The Los Angeles Times is a daily newspaper that began publishing in Los Angeles, California, in 1881. [3] Based in the Greater Los Angeles city of El Segundo since 2018, [ 4 ] it is the sixth-largest newspaper in the nation and the largest in the Western United States with a print circulation of 118,760.
In 2019, The New York Times issued an apology after Shortz chose to publish the racial slur "BEANER" in the crossword, cluing it as "Pitch to the head, informally". [25] Shortz admitted that he saw the derogatory definition when he researched the word, but claimed he had never personally heard it, and explained that as long as a word also has a ...
KTU was established by the Government of Kerala through an Ordinance on 21 May 2014. [7] Kuncheria P. Isaac, a former Member Secretary of the All India Council for Technical Education, was appointed as the first Vice-Chancellor of the university on 1 September 2014, and M. Abdul Rahman, former All India Council for Technical Education Director, was appointed as the first Pro-Vice-Chancellor. [8]
Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction winners and finalists Year Author Title Result Ref. 1980 Walker Percy: The Second Coming: Winner [1] Joyce Carol Oates: Bellefleur: Finalist [1] John Kennedy Toole: A Confederacy of Dunces: William Golding: Darkness Visible: John le Carré: Smiley's People: 1981 D. M. Thomas: The White Hotel: Winner [2 ...
David Eggers, double winner of the Book Prize in 2009. Since 1980, the Los Angeles Times has awarded a set of annual book prizes. The Los Angeles Times Book Prize currently has nine categories: biography, current interest, fiction, first fiction (the Art Seidenbaum Award added in 1991), history, mystery/thriller (category added in 2000), poetry, science and technology (category added in 1989 ...
Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Mystery/Thriller winners and finalists Year Author Title Result Ref. 2000 Val McDermid: A Place of Execution: Winner [1] Michael Dibdin: Blood Rain: An Aurelio Zen Mystery: Finalist [1] Peter Robinson: Cold Is the Grave: James Lee Burke: Purple Cane Road: George P. Pelecanos: Shame the Devil: 2001 T. Jefferson ...
The lowest word count in a published weekday-size 15x15 puzzle is the June 29, 2013 The New York Times crossword by Joe Krozel, with just 50 words. [57] The fewest shaded squares in a 15x15 American crossword is 17 (leaving 208 white spaces), set by the July 27, 2012 Times crossword by Joe Krozel. [58]