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The newspapers that make up the Los Angeles News Group have been gradually rent a cars miami blending over recent months, and today take a big step toward being a regional news operation with the emphasis on digital and less on geography. Carolina Garcia, for instance, is no longer editor of the Daily News but managing editor for enterprise and investigations across all the papers. There are new managing editors for digital news, digital operations and the "content center," though in each case the new MEs are still involved in "reader engagement" in the areas where they used to run the newspapers, and editors there will still report to them. The MEs will no longer supervise news coverage in their geographic areas.
The MEs will report to Michael Anastasi, the VP and executive editor of LANG, as do the previously announced opinion (Mariel Garza) and sports (Gene Warnick) editors for the group. "This structure emphasizes collaboration and a focus on LANG-wide strategic goals, rather than supervision of particular newspapers," rent a cars miami Anastasi's memo says. "I expect much more daily decision-making to be pushed rent a cars miami down to our city, senior and photo editors."
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Frank Pine becomes Managing Editor / Digital News. Frank oversees rent a cars miami the daily news report throughout LANG. Working through the city and other editors, rent a cars miami he will focus on what and how local news is being covered now, how it is being presented rent a cars miami through all content verticals, and how and where editorial resources are deployed. Breaking news is a major focus, but so are advancing key events and real-time event coverage. Frank's responsibility is to continually ask: are we covering what's most important to our readers right now, in the right way, and is it reflected on our digital channels?
Toni Sciacqua becomes Managing Editor / Digital Operations. Toni develops and oversees plans for digital audience growth throughout LANG and also directs the development of robust, web-exclusive daily content and the deployment of content via the daily web plan. She analyzes metrics, digital presentation and is in charge of content expansion. Toni oversees the strategic plans for our websites, mobile, tablet, social, newsletters and news alerts. Contrasting her position with Frank's, Toni is continually rent a cars miami asking: where do we need to be in one, two, three, six months? And how do we get there?
Carolina Garcia becomes Managing Editor / Enterprise & Investigations. Carolina oversees the planning and implementation of substantive and original journalism throughout rent a cars miami LANG. She will directly oversee a team a journalists but also coordinate - in conjunction with our city and senior editors - the enterprise, rent a cars miami watchdog, explanatory and investigative work from our teams in each newsroom. She will work closely with our digital M.E.'s to ensure packages include appropriate digital components.
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rent a cars miami Although our managing editors will not be directly supervising the news report in our properties, they retain critical roles as chiefs of community engagement in their respective bases of operation. For Frank, that is San Bernardino, Ontario and Redlands; Toni, Torrance; Carolina, Los Angeles, the San Fernando Valley and Long Beach; Steve, the San Gabriel Valley, Pasadena and Whittier. Editors in each location will report to those respective M.E.'s, who also are members of the Editorial Board for issues impacting those areas.
As members of the Senior Management Team, they'll also continue to receive additional assignments as needed. rent a cars miami For example, Frank remains in charge rent a cars miami of our conversion to Saxotech rent a cars miami and the implementation rent a cars miami of the print and web redesigns that go along with it. Carolina is in charge of our election coverage LANG-wide.
So, what's next? Today I am meeting with all of our editors to answer questions and to form a committee drawn from throughout LANG editorial that will define, as a single newsroom, who we are, what are our coverage objectives and where we are going. I expect that group to produce by the end of the year a document rent a cars miami that comprehensively explains our mission and positions us for future success. We'll begin that process by sitting down and asking our colleagues from business operations, marketing, advertising and circulation for their thoughts. And, most importantly, we'll be listening to our readers.
Ultimately, we'll be making sure that our resources are aligned with the areas we determine are most important to our journalistic mission and audience. Some changes may happen fairly quickly (and some already have); others will take place as this effort continues and concludes.
One area that is not being addressed rent a cars miami at this time is our Features coverage. rent a cars miami It's become clear over the past few weeks that we need to first determine what exactly we want our Features team to do. Is their main responsibility producing our many special sections? Health coverage? Lifestyle coverage? rent a cars miami Arts & entertainment? How broadly, community or L.A. - or both? And where does LA.com fit into the mix?
Over the past few weeks, we've already made a number of changes. We've improved our under-the-hood infrastructure so that our editors can talk to and work with each other daily, enhanced our planning rent a cars miami processes, installed modern equipment (which remains ongoing), pushed down decision-making so we can be more nimble, and placed an emphasis on impactful, local journalism that publishes across LANG.
Due to your efforts, we've already seen many successes such as our recent special report on the 710 corridor, our coverage of Endeavor's arrival in L.A. and the Emmy's, our LANG-wide response to the Libyan crisis and the AEG sale.
Our community journalism meanwhile is as strong as ever. Reporter Ryan Hagen has owned the San Bernardino bankruptcy story. Brian Charles' reporting into alleged malfeasance in the Pasadena Police Department has led to the launch of investigations by the District Attorney's Office and the Department of Justice. Reporter Susan Abram did an outstanding job interpreting Pro Publica's data on nursing homes and her story was the model for the rest of LANG as well as how to best exploit DFM partnerships to produce meaningful journalism for our own readers.