Forty Years In, Downtown News Publisher Sue Laris Retraces Her Lucky Steps
Surviving as a free downtown print weekly since Richard Nixon was President is no mean feat. So kudos to Los Angeles Downtown News editor and publisher Sue Laris for making it to a 40th anniversary year.
For this week’s celebratory issue, Laris has updated her long and very amusing essay “How To Start Your Own Newspaper,” originally written to mark her paper’s 30th anniversary. The piece starts out as a checklist for prospective media barons and eventually detours to a golden anecdote:
The total we needed to start the company was $1,400, which was a lot of money to us at the time.
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