Ex-mayor Richard Riordan has shelved hisLos Angeles Examiner project, semi-officially, while he prepares to assume the advisory post of state education secretary. Riordan himself doesn't comment, nor does Tim DeRoche -- listed as president on the Examiner website -- but art director Eric Almendraltells the L.A. Business Journal the paper is on indefinite hold. (Previous post.)

The Business Journal also has acover piece on the coming battle for Spanish language readers between the venerableLa Opini�n and the Tribune Company'sHoy.La Opini�n is the largest Spanish-language daily in the U.S., with a circulation of 124,692. Anotherstory says daily circulation at the L.A. Times was down 1% to 955,211 and up a tick on Sundays to about 1.4 million. The Daily News was flat at 178,360 daily and 201,020 on Sundays.

There's also a Q-and-Ainterview with documentary filmmaker Sarah Pillsbury, co-founder of theLiberty Hill Foundation in Santa Monica, and apiece on the future of Elie Samaha and Franchise Pictures.