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Article: Changing times.(MEDIA & ENTERTAINMENT)(Los Angeles Times Magazine)
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- Los Angeles Business Journal
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- June 16, 2008
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In a move that blurs the line between editorial and advertorial, the monthly Los Angeles Times Magazine is being stripped from the newspaper's editorial department and handed over to the newspaper's business side.
The magazine will publish its last issue in July, but it may be reincarnated in another format as early as August, Times executives said last week.
"It is a terribly sad day," said Rick Wartzman, a previous editor of the magazine, when it was called West. "As a former editor and as an Angeleno, I feel that we have lost an important journalistic voice in our community."
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