Pacific Time - Los Angeles Times
Pacific Time is a weekly podcast that checks in with Los Angeles Times reporters and editors on a selection of the week's stories, coverage, columns and ongoing conversations.
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- Update frequency
- every 4 days
- Average duration
- 11 minutes
- Episodes
- 41
- Years Active
- 2010
Episode 37: America Out of Work (12/17)
L.A. Times reporter Alana Semuels asked a group of UCLA economists visiting the L.A. Times offices
what it's going to take to launch a sustained recovery.
00:04:18 |
Fri 17 Dec 2010
Episode 36: The final countdown to the election (10/29)
The clock is ticking down the final 72 hours of the campaign, and we touch base with California politics reporter and editor Cathleen Decker about the polls, plans and prospects of the candidates for…
00:08:38 |
Fri 29 Oct 2010
Episode 35: As jobs are scarce, scams are plenty (10/22)
As part of the "America Out of Work" series, which chronicles the U.S. unemployment crisis, The Times' Stuart Pfeifer writes in Sunday's paper about scams targeting job seekers.
00:04:01 |
Fri 22 Oct 2010
Episode 34: The story behind Fatima Bhutto's story (10/15)
Fatima Bhutto Times staff writer Lori Kozlowski recently had a chance to speak with author Fatima Bhutto, the niece of Benazir Bhutto, for an upcoming piece in Books.
00:06:12 |
Fri 15 Oct 2010
Episode 33: Quarterly review: Tom Petruno on bond funds (10/8)
Markets columnist Tom Petruno talks about how bond funds performed in the third quarter, which ended Sept. 30. Are they really the safe havens that shelter-seeking investors may think they are? And w…
00:06:53 |
Fri 08 Oct 2010
Episode 32: Voters guide: Race update and endorsements (10/8)
We touch base with California politics editor Cathleen Decker for a status update on the gubernatorial and senate races. We also get some insight on recommendations on the governor's race and on Prop…
00:11:18 |
Fri 08 Oct 2010
Episode 31: Getting inside 'The Social Network' (10/1)
Entertainment reporter Amy Kaufman takes us inside the upcoming movie about the first friends of Facebook, "The Social Network." She spent time with Jesse Eisenberg, who portrays Facebook Chief Execu…
00:07:44 |
Fri 01 Oct 2010
Episode 30: Steve Lopez on Bell wringing and a preview of Crime L.A. (9/24)
Columnist Steve Lopez ponders how likely charges are to stick in the scandal in the city of Bell. And data team editor Megan Garvey gives listeners an audio preview to a feature coming to Latimes.com…
00:10:24 |
Fri 24 Sep 2010
Episode 29: The story behind the story of Laura Bradbury (9/20)
Every so often, the Los Angeles Times revisits stories that have faded like the newsprint that once heralded urgent national headlines. One such story is that of the 1984 disappearance of Laura Bradb…
00:06:56 |
Mon 20 Sep 2010
Episode 28: Update on the California gubernatorial race (9/17)
This edition of the Pacific Time podcast checks in with state politics editor and writer Cathleen Decker for an update on California's gubernatorial race. She gives a round-up and preview of what's t…
00:05:51 |
Fri 17 Sep 2010
Episode 27: Making plans for books and bells (9/10)
As the sunny summer days give way to evenings that stretch ever longer, autumn brings a number of new titles to real and virtual bookshelves to fill them. Times Book Critic David Ulin highlights a fe…
00:11:41 |
Fri 10 Sep 2010
Episode 26: Assessment: Doyle McManus on Obama Speech (9/8)
Shortly after President Obama wrapped up his speech Wednesday assailing GOP leaders and outlining the administration's economic proposals to prop up the ailing economy, Doyle McManus, The Times' Wash…
00:02:48 |
Wed 08 Sep 2010
Episode 25: America Out of Work (9/3)
As the nation prepares to honor its working population on Monday, the unemployment rate continues to edge upward. Reporter Alana Semuels explores in Sunday's paper the who, why and how to make ends m…
00:08:51 |
Fri 03 Sep 2010
Episode 24: 'Grading the Teachers' and the Sacramento dash (8/27)
We hear from reporters Jason Felch and Jason Song on what data from the LAUSD revealed about teaching success and failure in Los Angeles, why they embarked on the project and how parents can use the …
00:11:11 |
Fri 27 Aug 2010
Episode 23: Developments in Bell saga, the story behind Project 50, a look behind the lens (8/6)
Sacramento bureau chief Evan Halper talks about questions being raised about CalPERS in light of its inaction on exorbitant Bell salaries when the pension system found out about them four years ago. …
00:16:18 |
Fri 06 Aug 2010
Episode 22: Perspective on a decade of peril in South L.A. (8/4)
Times staff writer Scott Gold, who spent all of 2009 reporting on the progress, promise and peril in South Los Angeles, talks about the South L.A. of the mid-1980s, an environment so infused with eco…
00:04:48 |
Wed 04 Aug 2010
Episode 21: The story behind our stories (7/23)
We focus on stories behind two of our stories. We chat with Los Angeles Times reporters Jeff Gottlieb and Ruben Vives whose reporting on the pay for city officials in Bell continues to echo throughou…
00:16:03 |
Fri 23 Jul 2010
Episode 20: Hero Complex blogger Geoff Boucher gets animated about Comic-Con 2010 (7/21)
Mild-mannered reporter by day, Geoff Boucher has swooped in to San Diego this week to cover the grand gala of all things pop culture -- Comic-Con International 2010. For the rest of the week, hordes …
00:05:18 |
Wed 21 Jul 2010
Episode 19 - Part 2: What is a book? (7/16)
Beginning Sunday, the Los Angeles Times will explore in an occasional series the future of reading, the technologies and their effect on the culture of reading and writing. In Part 2, we speak with c…
00:09:28 |
Fri 16 Jul 2010
Episode 19 - Part 1: What is a book? (7/16)
Beginning Sunday, the Los Angeles Times will explore in an occasional series the future of reading, the technologies and their effect on the culture of reading and writing. In this episode, we speak …
00:15:08 |
Fri 16 Jul 2010
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