Welcome to the new LAist.com. We've made improvements with you in mind

You might notice that LAist.com has gotten a facelift. We know site redesigns can be jarring, but the fact of the matter is, we've grown a lot in the 4+ years since we last updated our news website.

Why now? We're publishing more original LAist work than ever before. We're covering daily and breaking news in real-time. We're delivering watchdog and enterprise stories each week that uncover issues you hear here first.

About our ambitious coverage

• We're reporting and publishing more stories each day, from less than a handful a day in 2021 to an average of more than 16 each weekday now. The site redesign makes it easier to surface the latest stories and help you discover other important work.
• While we merged our old radio site, KPCC.org, into LAist about two years ago, this update fully integrates our audio and broadcast programming and products.
• We want to make breaking news coverage — which we've increased — more accessible.

For these reasons and many more, we've built a site that we hope you still find familiar, but easier to navigate, less cluttered, and with a richer audio experience.

About our reporters

We're also highlighting our reporters who bring you the news more prominently on each story.

Why? To reinforce the fact that most of our published content is produced by local reporters working hard in your communities to help you navigate and discover all that makes L.A. and Orange County great (and to better understand what doesn't). You'll notice both headshots and micro-bios on stories by LAist staff. From there, you can easily jump to their full bio pages to learn more about their coverage areas, background and goals, as well as ways to reach them.

Most of our funding comes directly from our readers and listeners, so we count on you not just for making sure we're covering the stories that matter to you, but also to keep the doors open. You'll hear more from our Editor-in-Chief Megan Garvey at the end of this story about how you can help.

For fans of LAist 89.3 FM (and audio in general)

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Our broadcast programs and podcasts now exist in a streamlined area of the site and we are expanding our daily audio products. Some things to watch for:

• The L.A. Report, our daily on-demand news show, is now available three times a day. In the morning (6 a.m.), afternoons (1 p.m.) and evenings (6 p.m.).
• Imperfect Paradise, with new podcast episodes every Friday, now features our reporters on the most notable stories each week.
• We're expanding our audio box on the homepage. Frequent LAist readers may be used to seeing AirTalk and FilmWeek on the homepage from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. Our new site allows us to feature more live shows and on-demand audio throughout the week.
• For fans of our live radio programs, you'll also see an expanded audio player that drops down from the top of the page, with details about each show and a stream for you to play.

For fans of video

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You will also now see more video on the site, as our journalists step out from behind the microphone and in front of the camera to take you deeper into the reporting and let you hear directly from the people we cover and interview.

What's next for the LAist newsroom

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While local news has been in a steady decline for the past few years, LAist has been growing. We provide essential context and coverage where others don't, like with our Voter Game Plan voting guides, our wildfire coverage earlier this year, and our investigative coverage. Since last year, our site visitors have grown over 70%, and thousands of you follow us on social media or subscribe to our newsletters.

In the last year alone we've:

• Expanded our watchdog reporting team
• Expanded the Explore L.A. team that brings you food, culture, history and events coverage
• Added resources to covering the housing affordability crisis and homelessness, a topic you've told us time and time again is top of mind
• And invested more reporting power in Orange County, where readers are hungry for original local news

We've also continued to refine our distinct LAist style of coverage, which tries to put our audiences first in the stories we assign, report and edit.

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While we have you

We’re proud to center our stories around the people and communities of L.A. and Orange counties. Our work is often supported by tips and supporting evidence from readers like you. Have a story tip for us? We’d love to hear from you.