Read today’s press release, below. One funny thing about this … when the release shifts to “about Roski” … and the first item mentioned is that he was named “one of the 10 most intriguing sports figures” by the L.A. Daily News … I was the one who wrote that, for L.A. News Group, last […]
Roski/L.A. Football Stadium Press Release
April 17th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Sports Journalism, Uncategorized
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Ed Roski’s ‘NFL’ Stadium in City of Industry
April 17th, 2008 · 3 Comments · Uncategorized
Have to give the guy credit for a vivid imagination.Ed Roski, the force behind the attempt to build an NFL-worthy stadium on a Carson landfill, a few years back (that point in time when the NFL blew off L.A. and awarded an expansion franchise to Houston), is still at it. He held a press conference […]
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Ousted LADN Editor Ron Kaye Launches Blog
April 17th, 2008 · No Comments · LANG, The Sun
Ron Kaye, the respected editor of the L.A. Daily News, recently put to pasture by MediaNews, has launched a blog. The url: ronkayela.com … It appears as if he will talk about newspapers, and as an insider with the L.A. News Group over the past few years, he could provide a lot of the background […]
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And Speaking of (Phantom) Job Opportunities …
April 17th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Sports Journalism, The Sun
In the post below I note that the “Employment Development Department” (actually the unemployment office) wants people receiving benefits to check with “at least” three prospective employers per week. And this isn’t news to anyone in the greater Los Angeles print journalism market … but the nation’s No. 2 media market doesn’t have enough serious […]
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My Visit to the Unemployment Office
April 17th, 2008 · 29 Comments · Sports Journalism, The Sun
They handle most of this unemployment stuff over the internet now. The signing up, the form-filling, the fact-checking. Which is convenient, because as someone who never has been unemployed, I really didn’t want to make lots of trips to DMV-type settings and hang out with other jobless folk eager to get themselves on the dole. […]
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