The Los Angeles Times Magazine (also shortened to just LA) was a monthly magazine which supplemented the Sunday edition of the Los Angeles Times newspaper on the first Sunday of the month. The magazine focused on stories and photos of people, places, style, and other cultural affairs occurring in Los Angeles and its surrounding cities and communities.[1] The Los Angeles Times Magazine was the successor to West Magazine, and was published between 2000 and 2012.
Los Angeles Times Magazine was started in 1985.[4][5] As with West, the magazine was a weekly supplemental to the Sunday edition of the Los Angeles Times newspaper.
In 2006, the Los Angeles Times announced it was resurrecting West magazine, edited by Rick Wartzman, with writer Amy Tan as the literary editor. West replaced the Los Angeles Times Magazine.[6]
A little more than a year later, in October 2007, West magazine changed its name and format again, returning to the Los Angeles Times Magazine and becoming a monthly.[7] Because of financial losses, the editorial board of the magazine was restructured in 2008.[8][9]
In 2012, the magazine won a national prize when the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights announced that Times photographer Michael Robinson Chavez won the international photography category for his work "Broken Promise: Gold Mining in Peru's High Andes," published in 2011.[9]
The magazine printed its final issue on June 3, 2012.[9]
^Personal recollection: My book La Frontera was excerpted in the October 26, 1986, edition of the Los Angeles Times Magazine (Weisman, Alan.“For All the Tea in Mexicali”). I became a contributing editor to the magazine in 1987, reporting from Europe, Latin America, Antarctica, and the US; my last article there appeared in 1996.
