The ''Los Angeles Record'' was a daily newspaper of the

Greater Los Angeles Greater Los Angeles is the most populous metropolitan area in the U.S. state of California, encompassing five counties in Southern California extending from Ventura County in the west to San Bernardino County and Riverside County in the eas ...

area of California, United States in the first half of the 20th century. Associated with the Scripps chain of newspapers, it was founded on March 4, 1895. The ''Record'' was an evening newspaper, perceived to be politically independent, and its offices were on Wall Street for much of its 20th-century history. In the 1920s, the ''Record'' was one of six dailies competing for readership in the city. The newspaper ultimately developed a fairly populistic, working-class editorial approach that stood out amongst the city's dailies, especially compared to the arch-capitalist ''

Los Angeles Times The ''Los Angeles Times'' is an American Newspaper#Daily, daily newspaper that began publishing in Los Angeles, California, in 1881. Based in the Greater Los Angeles city of El Segundo, California, El Segundo since 2018, it is the List of new ...

''.

History

Circa 1904 it was credited with the removal of LAPD Chief of Police

Charles Elton Charles Elton may refer to: * Charles Isaac Elton (1839–1900), English lawyer, politician, writer and antiquarian * Charles Sutherland Elton (1900–1991), English biologist * Charles Elton (police), Chief of Police in Los Angeles, California (19 ...

after the paper charged him with protecting illegal gambling rings. Among its editorial practices of the early 1900s was baiting Pacific Electric magnate Henry E. Huntington because, argued ''Record'' editorials, "company owners forced employees to operate the trolleys at excessive speed and were interested primarily in profits instead of human lives." The paper also opposed

William Mulholland William Mulholland (September 11, 1855 – July 22, 1935) was an Irish American self-taught civil engineer who was responsible for building the infrastructure to provide a water supply that allowed Los Angeles to grow into the largest city in Cal ...

's planned

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as exploitative of

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. It was the ''Record'' that published the so-called "haybag letters" that mayor Charles E. Sebastian wrote to his longtime mistress, in which he referred to his wife as "the Old Haybag". The paper survived until December 12, 1933, when it became the ''Los Angeles Post-Record''. The ''Post-Record'', or ''Los Angeles Evening Post-Record'', survived another couple years into the mid-1930s, maybe 1936.

Notable personnel

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, called Mac, was the

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from 1903 to ~1934 *

Dana Sleeth Dana may refer to: Businesses and organisations * Dana (company), a Slovenian beverage company * Dana (payment service), in Indonesia * Dana Air, a Nigerian airline * Dana College, formerly in Nebraska, U.S. * Dana Energy, an Iranian oil and g ...

, editor 1916–? *

Burton Knisely Burton, Burtons, or Burton's may refer to: Companies * Burton (retailer), a clothing retailer **Burton's, Abergavenny, a shop built for the company in 1937 **The Montague Burton Building, Dublin a shop built for the company between 1929 and 19 ...

, editor, early 1920s *

Henry B. R. Briggs Henry may refer to: People and fictional characters * Henry (given name), including lists of people and fictional characters * Henry (surname) * Henry, a stage name of François-Louis Henry (1786–1855), French baritone Arts and entertainment ...

was editor and publisher from 1925 to 1933. * Notable reporters included

Mamie Louise Leung Louise Leung Larson (February 16, 1905 – October 1, 1988) was a Chinese American journalist, who was the first Asian American reporter to work on a mainstream daily newspaper, the '' Los Angeles Record''. Early life Larson was born Mamie Lo ...

, considered the first Chinese-American female newspaper reporter, and

Agness Underwood Agness May Underwood ( Wilson; December 17, 1902 – July 3, 1984) was an American journalist and newspaper editor and one of the first women in the United States to hold a city editorship on a major metropolitan daily. She was preceded by Laura ...

, a crackerjack crime reporter, who started her career at the ''Record''.

References

Sources

* {{Cite book , last=Wagner , first=Rob Leicester , title=Red Ink, White Lies: The Rise and Fall of Los Angeles Newspapers, 1920–1962 , date=2000 , publisher=Dragonflyer Press , isbn=978-0-944933-80-0 , lccn=0944933807 , oclc=44654778 , location=Upland, California , language=en-us Daily newspapers published in Greater Los Angeles 1895 establishments in California 1933 disestablishments in California