With 1.4 million readers daily and 2.4 million readers on Sunday, over 39 million visitors on latimes.com monthly, and a combined print and online local weekly audience of 4.3 million, the Los Angeles Times is the largest metropolitan daily newspaper in the United States. The Pulitzer Prize-winning Los Angeles Times publishes articles through print and digitally, while also doing custom publishing. But publishing writing isn't the only thing the Los Angeles Times does. Hosting local events in the Los Angeles area is something LA Times does regularly, creating over 90 events a year.
History
For more than 135 years, the Los Angeles Times has been providing Southern California with news coverage and is still continuing to provide Southern California with news coverage. The Los Angeles Times' first publication was on December 4, 1881. The Los Angeles Times was originally created as the Los Angeles Daily Times. It wasn't until October 1886 that the word "Daily" was removed from the title, making it became the Los Angeles Times.
A year after the Los Angeles Times was created, the original founders ran into financial problems. As a result, the newspaper was inherited by the Mirror Printing Office and Book Bindery, its printer. The company hired Harrison Gray Otis as editor, who was a former military officer. The paper later turned into a financial success because of Otis. In 1884, Otis and a partner purchased all the Times and Mirror properties and made them into the Times-Mirror Company. Otis purchased his partner's interest in the company two years later.
Because of fierce competition between other local newspapers in the city, it wasn't until the mid-1940s that The Times became the leading newspaper in Los Angeles.
In June 2000, The Times became a Tribune Publishing newspaper when Tribune Company acquired Times Mirror, former parent of the Los Angeles Times. Today, The Times is the largest metropolitan newspaper in the country.