Los Angeles Times

==Special editions==
===Midwinter and midsummer===
====Midwinter====
For 69 years, from 1885<ref>{{cite web |url=http://socalhistory.org/bios/otis.html |title=Harrison Gray Otis Southern California Historical Society |publisher=Socalhistory.org |date=May 25, 2016 |access-date=August 8, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151002122248/http://www.socalhistory.org/bios/otis.html/ |archive-date=October 2, 2015 |url-status=dead}}</ref> until 1954, the ''Times'' issued on New Year's Day a special annual Midwinter Number or Midwinter Edition that extolled the virtues of Southern California. At first, it was called the "Trade Number", and in 1886 it featured a special press run of "extra scope and proportions"; that is, "a twenty-four-page paper, and we hope to make it the finest exponent of this [Southern California] country that ever existed."<ref>[https://search.proquest.com/docview/163431815 "Our Annual Trade Number", ''Los Angeles Times'', December 18, 1886, page 4] ''Access to this link requires the use of a library card.''</ref> Two years later, the edition had grown to "forty-eight handsome pages (9×15 inches), [which] stitched for convenience and better preservation", was "equivalent to a 150-page book."<ref>[https://search.proquest.com/docview/163487649 "Our Annual Edition", ''Los Angeles Times'', December 21, 1888, page 4] ''Access to this link requires the use of a library card.''</ref> The last use of the phrase ''Trade Number'' was in 1895, when the edition had grown to thirty-six pages split among three separate sections.<ref>[https://search.proquest.com/docview/163679906 "General Contents", ''Los Angeles Times'', January 1, 1895] ''Access to this link requires the use of a library card.''</ref>

The Midwinter Number drew acclamations from other newspapers, including this one from ''[[The Kansas City Star]]'' in 1923:

{{blockquote|It is made up of five magazines with a total of 240 pages – the maximum size possible under the postal regulations. It goes into every detail of information about Los Angeles and Southern California that the heart could desire. It is virtually a cyclopedia on the subject. It drips official statistics. In addition, it verifies the statistics with a profusion of illustration. . . . it is a remarkable combination of guidebook and travel magazine.<ref>[https://search.proquest.com/docview/161410760 Quoted in "Highest Praise Given to 'Times'", ''Los Angeles Times'', January 28, 1923, page II-12] ''Access to this link requires the use of a library card.''</ref>}}

In 1948, the Midwinter Edition, as it was then called, had grown to "7 big picture magazines in beautiful [[rotogravure]] reproduction."<ref>[https://search.proquest.com/docview/165823792 Display advertisement, ''Los Angeles Times'', December 13, 1947] ''Access to this link requires the use of a library card.''</ref> The last mention of the Midwinter Edition was in a ''Times'' advertisement on January 10, 1954.<ref>[https://search.proquest.com/docview/166561544 "Bigger and Better Than Ever", page F-10] ''Access to this link requires the use of a library card.''</ref>

====Midsummer====
Between 1891 and 1895, the ''Times'' also issued a similar Midsummer Number, the first one featuring the theme, "The Land and Its Fruits".<ref>[https://search.proquest.com/docview/163529010 "'The Land and Its Fruits' — Our Harvest Number", ''Los Angeles Times,'' September 5, 1891, page 6] ''Access to this link requires the use of a library card.''</ref> Because of its issue date in September, the edition was in 1891 called the Midsummer Harvest Number.<ref>[https://search.proquest.com/docview/163522458 "Ready Tomorrow", ''Los Angeles Times,'' September 4, 1891, page 4] ''Access to this link requires the use of a library card.''</ref>

===Zoned editions and subsidiaries===
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[[File:Avalon Wireless front page - 25MAR1903.jpg|thumb|Front page of the March 25, 1903, debut issue of the short-lived ''The Wireless'', published in [[Avalon, California|Avalon]]<ref>The four pages of the debut March 25, 1903, issue of ''The Wireless'' were reproduced on page 11 of the March 27, 1903, ''Times''.</ref>]]
In 1903, Pacific Wireless Telegraph Company established a radiotelegraph link between the California mainland and [[Santa Catalina Island, California|Santa Catalina Island]]. In the summer of that year, the ''Times'' made use of this link to establish a local daily paper, based in [[Avalon, California|Avalon]], ''The Wireless'', which featured local news plus excerpts which had been transmitted via Morse code from the parent paper.<ref>[https://archive.org/stream/p2independen55newy#page/2436/mode/1up "The Wireless Daily Achieved"] by C. E. Howell, ''The Independent'', October 15, 1903, pages 2436–2440.</ref> However, this effort apparently survived for only a little more than one year.<ref>[http://www.islapedia.com/index.php?title=Wireless_Newspaper,_Avalon,_Santa_Catalina_Island "Wireless Newspaper, Avalon, Santa Catalina Island"] (islapedia.com)</ref>

In the 1990s, the ''Times'' published various editions catering to far-flung areas. Editions included those from the San Fernando Valley, [[Ventura County, California|Ventura County]], [[Inland Empire, California|Inland Empire]], [[Orange County, California|Orange County]], [[San Diego County, California|San Diego County]] & a "National Edition" that was distributed to [[Washington, D.C.]], and the [[San Francisco Bay Area]]. The National Edition was closed in December 2004.

Some of these editions{{quantify|date=September 2017}} were succeeded by ''Our Times'', a group of community supplements included in editions of the regular Los Angeles Metro newspaper.{{citation needed|date=September 2017}}

A subsidiary, Times Community Newspapers, publishes the ''[[Daily Pilot]]'' of [[Newport Beach, California|Newport Beach]] and [[Costa Mesa, California|Costa Mesa]].<ref>{{cite news |url=https://latimes.com/services/newspaper/mediacenter/la-mediacenter-factsheet-tcn2,0,1436442.story |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090826154450/http://www.latimes.com/services/newspaper/mediacenter/la-mediacenter-factsheet-tcn2,0,1436442.story |url-status=dead |archive-date=August 26, 2009 |title=''Los Angeles Times'' website |date=April 17, 2014 |work=Los Angeles Times |access-date=October 6, 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://latimes.com/la-mediagroup-2011-0112-htmlstory.html |title=Los Angeles Times Community Newspapers Add New Title, Increase Coverage and Circulation with Sunday News-Press & Leader |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |date=January 12, 2011 |quote=''Los Angeles Times Community Newspapers'' (TCN) include the ''Huntington Beach Independent'', ''Daily Pilot'' (Costa Mesa, Newport and Irvine) and ''Laguna Beach Coastline Pilot''. TCN newspapers maintain separate editorial and business staffs from that of The Times, and focus exclusively on in-depth local coverage of their respective communities.}}</ref> From 2011 to 2013, the ''Times'' had published the ''Pasadena Sun''.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.editorandpublisher.com/news/the-pasadena-sun-publishes-last-issue/ |title=The Pasadena Sun Publishes Last Issue |magazine=[[Editor & Publisher]] |date=July 1, 2013 |access-date=July 16, 2017 |archive-date=September 26, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170926103010/http://www.editorandpublisher.com/news/the-pasadena-sun-publishes-last-issue/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> It also had published the ''[[Glendale News-Press]]'' and ''[[Burbank Leader]]'' from 1993 to 2020, and the ''La Cañada Valley Sun'' from 2005 to 2020.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.latimes.com/socal/la-canada-valley-sun/news/story/2020-04-16/a-note-to-our-readers-tcn-north |title=A Note to Our Readers |date=April 17, 2020 |access-date=April 17, 2020}}</ref>

On April 30, 2020, Charlie Plowman, publisher of Outlook Newspapers, announced he would acquire the ''Glendale News-Press'',
''Burbank Leader'' and ''La Cañada Valley Sun'' from Times Community Newspapers. Plowman acquired the ''South Pasadena Review'' and ''San Marino Tribune'' in late January 2020 from the Salter family, who owned and operated these two community weeklies.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/2020-04-30/charlie-plowman-outlook-acquires-burbank-leader-la-canada-valley-sun |title=Publisher of La Cañada Outlook to revive Burbank Leader, Glendale News-Press and Valley Sun |date=April 30, 2020 |access-date=July 1, 2023}}</ref>