Los Angeles Times
The Los Angeles Times is a major daily newspaper based in California and one of the largest metropolitan newspapers in the United States. It covers national and international news, politics, entertainment, and California affairs, and has earned numerous Pulitzer Prizes. Widely cited media-bias assessments rate it lean-left in orientation.
Los Angeles Times at a glance
- Country
- United States
- Region
- North America · Americas
- Kind of outlet
- Daily newspaper
- Editorial leaning
- Left-leaning
- Founded
- 1881
- Owner
- Patrick Soon-Shiong
- Published from
- El Segundo, California
- Website
- latimes.com ↗
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How Crosswire groups Los Angeles Times
Crosswire groups Los Angeles Times as Left-leaning for comparisons within the United States' directory. This is an approximate Crosswire label, not a verified rating of its individual articles or a claim that every journalist shares one position. In the United States, USA Today and NBC News are listed as Centrist, while Fox News is listed as Right-leaning — so you can open Los Angeles Times beside a title of a different orientation and compare the same day's front pages directly.
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Where Los Angeles Times sits in the United States' press
Los Angeles Times was founded in 1881, is published from El Segundo, California and is owned by Patrick Soon-Shiong. It is one of 14 outlets tracked in the United States, and one of 4 daily newspapers among them — the others being The New York Times, USA Today and The Washington Post. By outlets tracked, the United States ranks first of the 35 countries on Crosswire's Americas hub, which lists 165 outlets in all.
Across the Americas, Crosswire tracks 85 of the 396 daily newspapers in the directory. The nearest counterparts to Los Angeles Times outside the United States, starting with North America, are El Salvador (El Salvador), La Prensa (Honduras), La Prensa (Nicaragua) and La Nación (CR) (Costa Rica). Opening one of them beside Los Angeles Times is the quickest way to see what is a house style and what is a national one.
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