Los Angeles Times

====Internet presence and free weeklies ====
In December 2006, a team of ''Times'' reporters delivered management with a critique of the paper's online news efforts known as the Spring Street Project.<ref name="Spring Street Transcript">{{cite news |last=Saar |first=Mayrav |title=LAT's Scathing Internal Memo. Read It Here. |url=http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlLA/on/lats_scathing_internal_memo_read_it_here_51895.asp |work=FishbowlLA |publisher=mediabistro.com |date=January 26, 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071030082632/http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlLA/on/lats_scathing_internal_memo_read_it_here_51895.asp |archive-date=October 30, 2007}}</ref> The report, which condemned the ''Times'' as a "web-stupid" organization,<ref name="Spring Street Transcript" /> was followed by a shakeup in management of the paper's website,<ref name="Spring Street Hiller Memo">{{cite news |last=Roderick |first=Kevin |title=Times retools on web — again |url=http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2007/01/times_retools_on_web_agai.php |publisher=LA Observed |date=January 24, 2007}}</ref>and a rebuke of print staffers who were described as treating "change as a threat."<ref name="Spring Street O'Shea Speech">{{cite news |last=Welch |first=Matt |title=Spring Street Project unveiled! |url=http://opinion.latimes.com/opinionla/2007/01/spring_street_p.html |work=Los Angeles Times |date=January 24, 2007}}</ref>

On July 10, 2007, ''Times'' launched a local [[Metromix]] site targeting live entertainment for young adults.<ref>{{cite news |title=Metromix Makes Cool Debut |url=https://latimes.com/services/newspaper/mediacenter/releases/la-mediacenter-2007-0710,0,6705328.story |work=Los Angeles Times |date=July 10, 2007 |access-date=October 3, 2013}}</ref> A free weekly [[tabloid (newspaper format)|tabloid]] print edition of Metromix Los Angeles followed in February 2008; the publication was the newspaper's first stand-alone print weekly.<ref>{{cite news |last=Ives |first=Nate |title=Los Angeles Times Launches Free Weekly |url=http://adage.com/article/media/los-angeles-times-launches-free-weekly/125060/ |publisher=[[Advertising Age]] |date=February 13, 2008 |access-date=October 3, 2013}}</ref> In 2009, the ''Times'' shut down Metromix and replaced it with ''Brand X'', a [[blog site]] and free weekly tabloid targeting young, [[social networking]] readers.<ref>{{cite news |title=Editor announces weekly tabloid aimed at social-networking readers |url=http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/readers/2009/03/editor-announce.html |work=Los Angeles Times |date=March 25, 2009 |access-date=October 3, 2013}}</ref> ''Brand X'' launched in March 2009; the ''Brand X'' tabloid ceased publication in June 2011 and the website was shut down the following month.<ref>{{cite news |last=Roderick |first=Kevin |title=L.A. Times folds Brand X |url=http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2011/06/la_times_folds_brand_x.php |publisher=LA Observed |date=June 29, 2011 |access-date=October 3, 2013}}</ref>

In May 2018, the ''Times'' blocked access to its online edition from most of Europe because of the European Union's [[General Data Protection Regulation]].<ref>{{cite news |url=https://money.cnn.com/2018/05/25/media/gdpr-news-websites-la-times-tronc/index.html |title=LA Times takes down website in Europe as privacy rules bite |first=Alanna |last=Petroff |publisher=CNN}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/chicago-tribune-los-angeles-times-block-european-users-due-gdpr-n877591 |title=Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times block European users due to GDPR |last=Newcomb |first=Alyssa |date=May 25, 2018 |access-date=June 8, 2018 |work=[[CBS News]] |publisher=[[NBC Universal]]}}</ref>