Los Angeles Times

===Chandler era===
{{Further|Harry Chandler|Norman Chandler|Otis Chandler}}
After Otis' death in 1917, his son-in-law, [[Harry Chandler]], took control as publisher of the ''Times''. Chandler was succeeded in 1944 by his son, [[Norman Chandler]], who ran the paper during the rapid growth in Los Angeles following the end of [[World War I]]. Norman's wife, [[Dorothy Buffum Chandler]], became active in civic affairs and led the effort to build the [[Los Angeles Music Center]], whose main concert hall was named the [[Dorothy Chandler Pavilion]] in her honor. Family members are buried at the [[Hollywood Forever Cemetery]] near [[Paramount Studios]]. The site also includes a memorial to the Times Building bombing victims.

In 1935, the newspaper moved to a new, landmark Art Deco building, the [[Times Mirror Square|Los Angeles Times Building]], to which the newspaper would add other facilities until taking up the entire city block between Spring, Broadway, First and Second streets, which came to be known as [[Times Mirror Square]] and would house the paper until 2018. [[Harry Chandler]], then the president and general manager of [[Times Mirror Co.|Times-Mirror Co.]], declared the Los Angeles Times Building a "monument to the progress of our city and Southern California".<ref name="dimassa">{{cite news|url=http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-times27-2008jun27,0,3304303.story|title=Much has changed around the Los Angeles Times Building|last=DiMassa |first=Cara Mia |date=June 26, 2008|access-date=June 26, 2008|work=Los Angeles Times}}</ref>

The fourth generation of family publishers, [[Otis Chandler]], held that position from 1960 to 1980. Otis Chandler sought legitimacy and recognition for his family's paper, often forgotten in the power centers of the [[Northeastern United States]] due to its geographic and cultural distance. He sought to remake the paper in the model of the nation's most respected newspapers, such as ''[[The New York Times]]'' and ''[[The Washington Post]]''. Believing that the newsroom was "the heartbeat of the business",<ref name="mcdougal">{{cite book |last=McDougal |first=Dennis |author-link=Dennis McDougal |title=Privileged Son: Otis Chandler and the Rise and Fall of the L.A. Times Dynasty |year=2002 |publisher=Da Capo |location=Cambridge, MA |isbn=0-306-81161-8 |oclc=49594139}}</ref> Otis Chandler increased the size and pay of the reporting staff and expanded its national and international reporting. In 1962, the paper joined with ''The Washington Post'' to form the [[Los Angeles Times–Washington Post News Service]] to syndicate articles from both papers for other news organizations. He also toned down the unyielding [[conservatism]] that had characterized the paper over the years, adopting a much more centrist editorial stance.

During the 1960s, the paper won four [[Pulitzer Prize]]s, more than its previous nine decades combined.

In 2013, ''Times'' reporter Michael Hiltzik wrote that:

<blockquote>The first generations bought or founded their local paper for profits and also social and political influence (which often brought more profits). Their children enjoyed both profits and influence, but as the families grew larger, the later generations found that only one or two branches got the power, and everyone else got a share of the money. Eventually the coupon-clipping branches realized that they could make more money investing in something other than newspapers. Under their pressure the companies went public, or split apart, or disappeared. That's the pattern followed over more than a century by the ''Los Angeles Times'' under the Chandler family.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://latimes.com/business/la-fi-hiltzik-20130807,0,2277462.column |title=Washington Post Buy: Can Jeff Bezos Fix Newspapers' Business Model? |work=Los Angeles Times |access-date=October 6, 2014 |first=Michael |last=Hiltzik |date=August 6, 2013}}</ref>
</blockquote>

The paper's early history and subsequent transformation was chronicled in an unauthorized history, ''Thinking Big'' (1977, {{ISBN|0-399-11766-0}}), and was one of four organizations profiled by [[David Halberstam]] in ''[[The Powers That Be (book)|The Powers That Be]]'' (1979, {{ISBN|0-394-50381-3}}; 2000 reprint {{ISBN|0-252-06941-2}}). It has also been the whole or partial subject of nearly thirty dissertations in communications or social science in the past four decades.<ref>''ProQuest Dissertation Abstracts''. Retrieved June 8, 2007.</ref>