Comings and goings

Pasadena Star-News reporter Emma Gallegos is leaving the paper for a job at the Los Angeles Daily Journal. Her final day is Monday.

Comings and goings

Los Angeles Times reporter Phil Willon is leaving the City Hall beat and will become a "roving" state reporter for the newspaper based in the Inland Empire, where he currently lives (imagine his commute).

Taking his place on the City Hall beat will be Patrick McDonnell, a veteran Times reporter with a good deal of experience overseas. Most recently, he's covered labor issues for the paper - which seems quite appropriate for someone covering L.A. politics.

Read the memo at fishbowlLA.

Comings and Goings (and Scares)

The Los Angeles Daily News has hired sports writer Jon Gold to takeover the UCLA beat at the newspaper. He replaces Brian Dohn, who left the paper in August for New Jersey. Word is that the Daily News put off hiring a replacement for Dodgers writer Tony Jackson, who was laid off in May.

Speaking of the Daily News, the paper's offices were evacuated today because of a bomb scare. An inmate at the Metropolitan Detention Center said claimed he'd hidden explosive around the building.

The Pasadena Star-News newsroom is down a reporter. Robert Hong, who covered cities and cops for the paper, resigned last week to travel in Europe. The paper has yet to hire a replacement.

Both the Star-News and Daily News are part of Dean Singleton's Los Angeles Newspaper Group.

Comings and goings

Los Angeles Daily News reporter Jason Kandel is moving to KPCC to become online managing editor. His departure leaves an opening for an online breaking news reporter at the DN. LAO

Someone's hiring...

Posted on Talking Points Memo:

We'll do more formal job announcements next week. But for our regular readers and for those who might be interested in joining our team, I wanted to let you know that we're going to be adding eight new editorial positions to our staff. Most of those slots will be new reporter-bloggers in New York and Washington. But there will also be new junior editorial positions.

We plan to hire for six of those positions this summer. And then two more in early fall. Together, that will more than double the size of our editorial staff.

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Four in the morning

1. Forget about anti-trust and collusion and unworkable online subscription models - the Associated Press could be the Google News for newspapers. Temple Talk (via Romenesko)

2. The geography of job losses - and gains. Tipstrategies

3. A really first draft of history: Wikipedia updates of current events make Google News. Nieman Lab

4. Chinese rescue workers have recovered the bodies of two American climbers killed in an avalanche while trying to scale Mt. Edgar in Sichuan Province. The search continues for Lancaster native Micah Dash. Watershed News