FishbowlLA and LA Weekly React to Patch Pitch

Thursday, October 21, 2010 1:29 PM Fishbowl/LA Journos, Startup Patch Hits South Pasadena, Press Club In these times of journalistic layoffs and media conglomerate belt-tightening, the rapid, ongoing Southern California expansion of community news hub venture Patch.com seems almost surreal. Yesterday, after some last-minute technical hiccups, the AOL seed-funded enterprise turned on the newest of its area websites, South Pasadena Patch, the same day the L.A. Press Club announced that San Francisco-based Patch west coast editorial director Marcia Parker (pictured) will be flying down to address the organization’s annual meeting…

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Talk Radio and Its Impact

Thursday, October 21, 2010 1:22 PM KFI’s John Kobylt, half of the John and Ken show, Talkers magazine publisher Michael Harrison and KPCC/LA Times journalist and radio host Patt Morrison will be among the participants of a high-powered panel discussing the state of talk radio in L.A. and the nation, presented by the Los Angeles Press Club, Thurs., Oct. 28, at the Steve Allen Theater—a week before the mid-term elections. R.S.V.P. According to Talkers magazine publisher Michael Harrison, who coined the term “talk media” and defined it years ago in…

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