LA Times is Getting Into the Online Retail Business with District West
The Los Angeles Times is facing a murky future, as fears mount that the Tribune Company, its corporate parent dogged until recently by years bankruptcy, will further gut the paper’s editorial staff. Or, perhaps worse, sell it to billionaires with nefarious political agendas.
But the executives at the Los Angeles Times Media Group see ecommerce as a possible revenue stream to buoy the paper.
Hence Monday’s launch of District West, a boutique retail site featuring clothes, kitsch, food and home goods from a variety of local vendors.
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