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The paper was first published as the Los Angeles Daily Times on December 4, 1881, but soon went bankrupt. The paper's printer, the Mirror Company, took over the newspaper and installed former Union Army lieutenant colonel Harrison Gray Otis as editor. Otis made the paper a financial success and in 1884 bought out the newspaper and printing company, forming the Times-Mirror Company.
Historian Andrew Rolle called Otis "the single most important force in Los Angeles aside from government itself." Otis's editorial policy was based on civic boosterism, extolling the virtues of Los Angeles and promoting its growth. Towards those ends, the paper supported efforts to expand the city's water supply by acquiring the watershed of the Owens Valley, an effort (slightly) fictionalized in the Roman Polanski movie Chinatown which is also covered in California Water WarsThe California Water Wars was a struggle between Los Angeles, California and people living elsewhere (including the Owens Valley) over water rights. Los Angeles Aqueduct The wars started with Fred Eaton, who was mayor of Los Angeles in 1898. He created th. Otis was also staunchly Republican and conservative, which was reflected in the paper's editorial and news content.
The efforts of the Times to fight local unions led to the October 1October 1 is the 274th day of the year (275th in Leap years). There are 91 days remaining. Events 331 BC Alexander the Great defeats Darius III of Persia in the Battle of Arbela 959 Edgar the Peaceable becomes king of all England 965 John XIII becomes Pop, 1910Events January events January 13 The first live musical radio program. Lee De Forest broadcasts a live performance of Enrico Caruso from the Metropolitan Opera. January 26 ? Seine floods in Paris. February events February 8 The Boy Scouts of America is in bombing of its headquarters and the home of Otis, killing 21 people. Two union leaders, James and Joseph McNamara, were charged with the murders. The American Federation of LaborThe American Federation of Labor (AFL) was one of the first federations of labor unions in the United States. It was founded in 1886, as an association of various trade unions, by Samuel Gompers. Gompers was the president of the AFL until 1924, when he di hired noted trial attorney Clarence DarrowClarence Darrow ( April 18, 1857 March 13, 1938) was the lawyer who defended Leopold and Loeb in their trial for murder and defended John T. Scopes in the so-called "Monkey Trial", opposing Fundamentalist prosecutor William Jennings Bryan. He remains famo to represent the brothers, who eventually pleaded guilty, although supporters then (and since) believed the two men were framed. The paper soon relocated to the Times Building , a Los Angeles landmark.
On Otis's death in 1917, his son-in-law Harry Chandler took over the reins as publisher of the Times. Harry Chandler was succeeded in 1944 by his son, Norman Chandler , who ran the paper during the rapid growth of post-warwiktionary The term post-war is generally used for the period after the end of World War II, i. after 1945. See also: pre-war. Los Angeles. Norman's wife, heiress and fellow Stanford alum 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.
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 because of its geographic and cultural distance. He sought to remake the paper in the model of the nation's most respected newspapers, notably the New York Times and Washington Post. Believing that the newsroom was "the heartbeat of the business" (according to McDougal's biography), 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 to other news organizations around the world.
At the same time, the search for approval also changed the paper's political tone. Under Otis Chandler, the paper shifted from its historic Republican political slant to the more customary liberal perspective of the New York-Washington media power center. During the 1960s, the paper won 4 Pulitzer Prizes, more than its previous nine decades combined.
The paper's early history and subsequent transformation was chronicled in a (decidedly) unauthorized history Thinking Big (1977), and was one of four organizations profiled in The Powers That Be. It has also been the subject of at least eight dissertations by social science Ph.D. students in the University of California system.
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