A letter from Patrick Soon-Shiong, MD, MD, executive chairman of the Los Angeles Times, to readers
Dear readers,
I am proud to announce the next evolution of the Los Angeles Times to better interact with the audience. Today, we are releasing new features to enhance and improve our digital offerings, integrating live videos, podcasts and AI-generated capabilities into a seamless experience.
La Times Studios now produces news, features and other interesting shows for our community every day. This content is available directly on the Los Angeles Times homepage, including continuous live camera feeds from Hollywood to iconic Los Angeles locations in Malibu.
Today, we are starting new efforts to ensure readers can easily distinguish opinion-oriented content from our news coverage. Anything written from a certain angle can be marked as sound, which helps strengthen the separation between news and no news. Voice is not strictly limited to the comments. It also includes news comments, criticisms, comments, etc. If the work takes a stand or is written from a personal perspective, it may be marked as a sound.
We will also release Insights, an AI-powered feature that will appear on certain sound content. The purpose of insight is to provide readers with an immediate access to view a variety of different AI-ai-supported perspectives next to the locations presented in the article. I believe that providing more diverse perspectives to support our news mission and will help readers solve the problems facing this country.
We have added these new features to encourage audience engagement and interaction with the times and content. I believe that the media is constantly evolving, and the times are in a good position and can guide the road.
We will be faithful to our mission statement, which states:
“We strive to consider different perspectives, especially if they are not aligned with ourselves, to inform our perspective. Our hope is to propose arguments and analysis that can help our readers introduce complex issues, or at least provide them with a way to think about the problem of the day.”
We invite you to your ideas and hope you find these innovations helpful and inspiring.
Patrick Singer Shienger, Maryland
Executive Chairman
Los Angeles Times
Insights about the Los Angeles era
La Times Insights provides AI-generated analysis of sound articles that provide perspectives on issues. This may include comment columns, editorials, comments, etc.
Insights analyzes the content of voice to determine that the expressed views may fall within political scope. It also provides an annotated summary of ideas expressed in the article and different opinions of the topic from various sources.
The Insights analysis was not created by editors at the Los Angeles Times and did not make judgments about the quality of any journalism or the views it advocates. Insights are designed to provide readers with more perspectives about voice articles that provide opinions. AI is an experimental, developing technology. If you see an error, report it on the Insights page.
It’s probably the voice of the Los Angeles era
La Times Voices provides a clear way to identify content that is far from our daily news reports. Anything written from a certain angle can be marked as sound,,,,, Helps strengthen the difference between news and news that doesn’t.
Voice is not strictly limited to the comments. It also includes news comments, criticisms, comments, etc. If the article takes a stand or is written from a personal perspective, it may be marked as a sound.
