This blank space is in memory of the 13 fellow Press-Telegram employees who were laid off yesterday - including friend and fellow photographer Scott Smeltzer. GOOD LUCK!
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This blog is a journal of Southern California, through the lens of Jeff Gritchen. It's updated frequently with pictures, photo tips and musings from the various assignments he covers as a staff photographer for the Press-Telegram and Torrance Daily Breeze.
Gritchen has been documenting the diverse city of Long Beach since 1998. He covers everything from the Cambodian community to prep sports to gang ridden neighborhoods to the annual running of the Long Beach Grand Prix. He covered destruction Hurricane Katrina brought to Long Beach, Mississippi and traveled to Southeast Asia to document a rural Cambodian girl's as she traveled to the U.S. for life-altering heart surgery. He has won numerous state and national awards, including an international NPPA Best of Photojournalism award in 2003 and Best News Photo from the Los Angeles Press Club in 2010. In 2011, the photo staffs of the Long Beach Press-Telegram and Torrance Daily Breeze merged. Now he covers all of Southern Los Angeles County. He can be contacted at
jeff.gritchen@presstelegram.com
Gritchen has been documenting the diverse city of Long Beach since 1998. He covers everything from the Cambodian community to prep sports to gang ridden neighborhoods to the annual running of the Long Beach Grand Prix. He covered destruction Hurricane Katrina brought to Long Beach, Mississippi and traveled to Southeast Asia to document a rural Cambodian girl's as she traveled to the U.S. for life-altering heart surgery. He has won numerous state and national awards, including an international NPPA Best of Photojournalism award in 2003 and Best News Photo from the Los Angeles Press Club in 2010. In 2011, the photo staffs of the Long Beach Press-Telegram and Torrance Daily Breeze merged. Now he covers all of Southern Los Angeles County. He can be contacted at
jeff.gritchen@presstelegram.com
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The Press-Telegram is such an amazing paper and had (unfortunately, not has) a great staff. The community that was created amongst the staff made the paper a great service to Long Beach and it's surrounding areas. I am incredibly sad that it has come to this for the Media News Group. A democracy needs strong journalists; our society will not be the same if true journalism dies.
Mainstream newspapers are struggling because of the advertising crisis but also, before that, because the quality of the analysis and writing has gone down. When I read some LA Times Op-Ed, I feel like highschoolers have written them. The degree of shallowness in most articles, and now on TV (MSNBC) is unbelievable. People don't buy that, even though the elite media think most people are dumb and ignorant.