Los Angeles Journal Sells To Attorneys Mark Geragos And Ben Meiselas Who Shaped Engine Imaginative and prescient Media – Deadline

Los Angeles-based prison protection lawyer Mark Geragos and civil rights lawyer Ben Meiselas have acquired Los Angeles Journal from Detroit-based Hour Media, the publication confirmed on Monday. The duo fashioned a brand new firm referred to as Engine Imaginative and prescient Media which would be the father or mother firm below which the flagship publication will run, together with the Pasadena and Orange Coast glossies.

“As somebody who was born in downtown Los Angeles and raised within the Pasadena space, it’s a dream to assist steward the legacy of those three unimaginable magazines and supply the assets wanted to take them to the subsequent degree with a constructive imaginative and prescient that celebrates the communities that these magazines serve,” Geragos, co-founder of Engine Imaginative and prescient, mentioned in an announcement posted within the Los Angeles Journal weblog.

The publications will hold the prevailing employees, together with the writer and editors, and can function in Downtown L.A., the place it’s headquartered. Based on the weblog put up, the brand new house owners “deliberate to speculate considerably within the journal’s journalism and increase its digital and social media presence” and concentrate on stay occasions.

“Los Angeles, Pasadena, and Orange Coast are a few of the most vibrant and unimaginable communities not simply in California however on this nation—from tradition, to leisure, to meals, to enterprise, to politics, I’m wanting ahead to pursuing a brand new imaginative and prescient for these magazines to change into trusted sources of data and unifying forces locally,” Meiselas mentioned.