Los Angeles Times Stopped The Presses for Wooden Death

The death Saturday night of legendary UCLA basketbal coach John Wooden prompted the Los Angeles Times to stop the presses and remake the front page, according to LAObserved.com.

“The news of John Wooden's passing was announced [Saturday] evening just after 7 p.m. By then, [Sunday's] front section of the Los Angeles Times was already on the presses -- a byproduct of the already much-discussed early deadline switch to save money," writes LAObserved. “Admirably, the decision was made at the highest levels to stop the presses, tear up the front page to cover the news, and take the hit in late delivery. The damage: 175,849 papers did not have the Wooden obituary package on the front page. (Operators standing by to take angry calls.) An internal email this morning says 400,416 papers did get the obituary.”

“The presses were down 3 hours and 15 minutes,” the email says. “They were able to make up some time, but the papers were delivered to distributors as late as 1 hour and 42 minutes.”