Los Angeles Times

==Competition and rivalries==
In the 19th century, the chief competition to the ''Times'' was the ''[[Los Angeles Herald Examiner|Los Angeles Examiner]]'' followed by the smaller ''[[Los Angeles Tribune (1886–1890)|Los Angeles Tribune]].'' In December 1903, newspaper magnate [[William Randolph Hearst]] began publishing the ''Los Angeles Examiner'' as a direct morning competitor to the ''Times.''<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ulwaf.com/LA-1900s/03.12.html |title=December 1903: Hearst's Examiner comes to L.A |publisher=Ulwaf.com |access-date=October 21, 2012}}</ref> In the 20th century, the ''[[Los Angeles Herald-Examiner|Los Angeles Express]]'', [[Manchester Boddy]]'s [[Illustrated Daily News|Los Angeles ''Daily News'']], a Democratic newspaper, were both afternoon competitors.<ref name=RedInk>[https://openlibrary.org/b/OL11566287M/Red_Ink_White_Lies Red Ink, White Lies: The Rise and Fall of Los Angeles Newspapers, 1920–1962] by Rob Leicester Wagner, Dragonflyer Press, 2000.</ref>

By the mid-1940s, the ''Times'' was the leading newspaper in terms of circulation in the [[Greater Los Angeles]]. In 1948, it launched the ''Los Angeles Mirror'', an afternoon tabloid, to compete with both the ''Daily News'' and the merged ''Herald-Express''. In 1954, the ''Mirror'' absorbed the ''Daily News''. The combined paper, the ''Mirror-News'', ceased publication in 1962, when the Hearst afternoon ''[[Los Angeles Herald Examiner|Herald-Express]]'' and the morning ''[[Los Angeles Examiner]]'' merged to become the ''[[Los Angeles Herald-Examiner|Herald-Examiner]]''.<ref name="Pitt">Leonard Pitt and Dale Pitt, ''Los Angeles: A to Z,'' University of California Press, {{ISBN|0-520-20274-0}}.</ref> The ''Herald-Examiner'' published its last number in 1989. 

In 2014, the ''Los Angeles Register'', published by Freedom Communications, then-parent company of the ''[[Orange County Register]]'', was launched as a daily newspaper to compete with the ''Times''. By late September of that year, however, the ''Los Angeles Register'' closed.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-newspaper-losangeles-idUSKCN0HI25220140923 |title=Los Angeles Register newspaper ends publication, five months after launch |date=September 23, 2014 |work=Reuters |access-date=November 8, 2019 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.ocregister.com/2013/12/13/los-angeles-register-to-launch-as-new-daily-newspaper/ |title=Los Angeles Register to launch as new daily newspaper |date=December 13, 2013 |website=Orange County Register |language=en-US |access-date=November 8, 2019}}</ref>