For most of its history, the Los Angeles Tribune was known for reporting the news. This year, it earned a Grammy Awards nomination. The recognition places the Tribune among a small group of finalists in the audiobook, narration and storytelling category — a rare distinction for a legacy newspaper brand and a clear signal of how far its publishing ambitions have expanded. Grammy News Group recognizes the Los Angeles Tribune in their accomplishment.
Founded as a traditional newspaper, the Los Angeles Tribune has evolved into a multi-platform media organization with more than 20 sister companies and brands. Its operations now span journalism, journals, books, film and documentary projects, television programming, live events, and a growing podcast network, with audiences across the United States and internationally.
Its Spanish-language division is led by former CNN news directors, reinforcing the Tribune’s emphasis on experienced editorial leadership as it expands its global and bilingual reach. The organization also maintains partnerships with nonprofit groups, aligning its storytelling with community and public-interest initiatives. At the center of that evolution is publishing.
Audio has long been part of the Tribune’s ecosystem through its podcast network. Audiobooks and audio documentaries represent a deeper commitment — one that treats sound as a lasting publishing format rather than short-cycle programming. These projects are developed like books and documentaries, not episodes. They are edited, structured, and produced to stand on their own, with the expectation that they will be discovered and revisited over time.
That approach mirrors broader changes across the publishing industry. Audiobooks continue to be one of the fastest-growing segments in media. In the United States alone, audiobook revenues now exceed $2 billion annually, with double-digit year-over-year growth reported in recent years. Globally, the audiobook market has grown into a multi-billion-dollar industry, with long-term projections placing its future value well beyond $30 billion as audio consumption becomes increasingly mainstream.
Listeners are no longer treating audiobooks as supplemental formats. For many, audio has become a primary way to consume nonfiction, biography, and documentary storytelling. Few newspaper brands have chosen to invest in that space at scale. Fewer still have positioned audio as a flagship publishing vertical.
The Grammy-nominated audiobook You Know It’s True: The Real Story of Milli Vanilli, published and produced by the Tribune, was led by its executive and publishing leadership, including CEO Moe Rock, COO and co-author Parisa Rose, Chief Strategy Officer Alisha Magnus-Louis, Vice President of Special Projects Giloh Morgan, and Fab Morvan. Narrated and produced by Morvan, the project tells the Milli Vanilli story through the voice of the group’s remaining living member, grounding the narrative in firsthand experience rather than outside interpretation.
That editorial decision reflects the Tribune’s broader publishing philosophy: prioritizing primary voices and documented history over commentary or reinterpretation, an approach that helped position the release among the recognized finalists in the audiobook, narration and storytelling category for the year.
For the Los Angeles Tribune, the Grammy nomination is not a departure from journalism. It is an extension of it. As media continues to fragment across platforms and formats, the Tribune is positioning itself as a legacy brand willing to operate beyond print and headlines — into film, television, live events, podcasts, and now long-form audio publishing — without abandoning editorial discipline. The nomination suggests a future in which newspapers are not defined solely by how stories are written, but by how they are preserved, experienced, and heard.
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