Surviving as a free downtown print weekly since Richard Nixon was President is no mean feat. So kudos to Los Angeles Downtown News editor and publisher Sue Laris for making it to a 40th anniversary year.
For this week’s celebratory issue, Laris has penned a long and very amusing essay titled “How To Start Your Own Newspaper.” The piece starts out as a checklist for prospective media barons, before eventually detouring to a golden anecdote:
The total we needed to start the company was $1,400, which was a lot of money to us at the time. I had no idea of the right way to get a business loan, so I walked into our bank, then a United California Branch in Inglewood, and asked for the loan officer.
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