“That lawsuit was settled and we both went our separate ways,” Mr. “It was not the same quality publication after he purchased it as it was before.” “I think my opinion is shared by the community of readers in Los Angeles,” she said. Shalhoup, who next week will start as ProPublica’s South editor, said she felt LA Weekly was not as focused on serious journalism after the acquisition by Mr. Calle bought it, said that nearly the entire newsroom staff was fired. Mara Shalhoup, the editor in chief of LA Weekly when Mr.
LA Weekly’s newsroom was quickly gutted after the sale, and former writers organized a boycott of the paper, pressing advertisers and other journalists to cut ties. (From 2012 to 2017, the Voice Media Group owned LA Weekly in addition to its flagship paper in New York.) Calle bought LA Weekly with a group of investors in 2017 from the Voice Media Group. Formerly an opinion editor for The Orange County Register in California and other newspapers, Mr. Calle has experience running an alt-weekly, but his time as publisher and chief executive at LA Weekly has not been without incident. In a news release, Street Media said the acquisition did not include the Obie Awards, the Off Broadway honors that will continue to be presented by the American Theater Wing. The terms of the deal were not disclosed.
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