Publishing & Printing
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L.A. County Publishing & Printing
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Closely aligned with entertainment industries, Publishing and Printing employment is more highly concentrated in Los Angeles County than in the nation.
Publishing and printing, including book and directory publishing, music publishing, internet publishing and broadcasting and web search portals, had 28,900 employees in Los Angeles County in 2010.
L.A. County is home to a wide array of newspapers, both large metros (Los Angeles Times) and smaller regional papers such as the Los Angeles Daily News and community papers like the Antelope Valley Press and those targeting specific demographic groups (La Opinion, Korea Times). Headquartered in Downtown L.A., the Los Angeles Times is one of the largest metropolitan daily newspapers in the country, with a daily readership of 1.9 million and 2.9 million on Sunday, more than 8 million unique latimes.com visitors monthly and a combined print and online local weekly audience of 4.5 million.
While the magazine publishing business is not a huge industry in Los Angeles County, neither is it insignificant. The industry runs the gamut from large media firms that publish several titles to smaller single-title publishers. Media Corp. (health & fitness magazines) and Cannon Communications (publications for the bio-med manufacturing industry) are both headquartered in Los Angeles while several other groups maintain branch offices in the area: American Express Publications, Crain Communication, Hachette Filipacchi (Newport Beach), Meredith Corp., Sports Illustrated and Sunset to name a just a few. Although most of the big magazine publishers are based in New York, almost all of them have a presence here in L.A. County.
As the world’s largest music publisher, Universal Music Publishing Group boasts some of the most important contemporary songwriters and artists on its global roster, including 50 Cent, Christina Aguilera, Bon Jovi, Mariah Carey, Chemical Brothers, Coldplay, Elton John, The Killers, Linkin Park, Maroon 5, Paul Simon, Justin Timberlake, U2, among other music superstars.