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Category Archives: Journalism
Terry Tang and the Custody of the Los Angeles Times
Terry Tang (b. circa 1959) is an American journalist, editor, and former lawyer who has served as executive editor of the Los Angeles Times since April 2024. She is the first woman to lead the newspaper’s newsroom in its history, … Continue reading
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Hector Becerra
Hector Becerra (b. 1974) is an American journalist and the managing editor of the Los Angeles Times, the second-ranking post in the newsroom and the highest a Latino journalist has held in the paper’s history. He reached that office in … Continue reading
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From Jerusalem to the Backlot: The Two Careers of Sharon Waxman
Sharon Waxman (b. 1963) is an American journalist, author, and media entrepreneur. She founded TheWrap in 2009 and serves as its chief executive and editor in chief. The site covers the business of entertainment and media, and it remains the … Continue reading
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Jim Romenesko and the Invention of Daily Blogging on the Press
Jim Romenesko (b. 1953) built a form of journalism that had no settled name when he started it: daily, link-driven coverage of the press by a man who treated newsrooms as a beat. For more than a decade his site … Continue reading
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Nikki Finke: A Life in Deadline Hollywood
Nikki Finke (1953-2022) reshaped American entertainment journalism. She founded Deadline Hollywood, a digital publication that changed how studio executives, agents, producers, and reporters followed industry news. Combative and independent, she challenged the long dominance of the established trade papers, Variety … Continue reading
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Lowell Cohn: ‘Shame on the New York Times’ (May 16, 2026)
Lowell Cohn wrote on Substack: Then there’s the issue of dogs penetrating prisoners in the anus. Kristof’s sources say this routinely happens, but according to testimony from experts I read this is highly unlikely when you account for the physiology … Continue reading
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Mr. Burge Draws The Line
In the summer of 1981 a boy runs across the floor of an auditorium toward a folding table. He is fifteen and he has come to this public school for one reason. Behind the table sits a man with a … Continue reading
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The Sportswriter
Scott Hamelin and I go to Placer High School together 1982-1984. We are friendly. The friend I make is his father. Joe Hamelin is the Sports Editor of the Sacramento Bee (he used to be a beat writer assigned to … Continue reading
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Live
The teletype runs all night. It is July 6, 1985, and I am nineteen, an intern at KAHI News in Auburn, and I sit in the booth from eight to five on the weekends and read the news two and … Continue reading
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