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Category Archives: Los Angeles Times
Patrick Soon-Shiong
Patrick Soon-Shiong (b. 1952) is a surgeon, medical inventor, biotechnology executive, investor, philanthropist, and newspaper proprietor whose career joins academic medicine to pharmaceutical commerce on a scale few physicians have matched. He built a large private fortunes through the development … Continue reading
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Scott Kraft: Foreign Correspondent and Newsroom Editor
Scott Kraft belongs to a narrow class of American journalists who reached the front rank twice over, first as a foreign correspondent and then as a newsroom executive. His career at the Los Angeles Times spans more than four decades … Continue reading
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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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The Hero System of Los Angeles Times Columnist Steve Lopez
Steve Lopez (b. 1953) keeps a private appointment with the obituary page. He has described the moment a newspaperman dreads, when the names there stop belonging to strangers and start belonging to men he knew, men he stood beside at … Continue reading
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The Paper Trail: David Zahniser and the Government of Los Angeles
David Zahniser (b. 1965) is an American journalist whose career has centered on the government of Los Angeles. As a City Hall correspondent for the Los Angeles Times since 2007, he has become an authority on municipal power in Southern … Continue reading
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The Settlement Is Also an Institution: Rebecca Ellis Covers Los Angeles County
Rebecca Ellis is an American investigative journalist whose career traces a path through public media into metropolitan accountability reporting. She covers Los Angeles County government for the Los Angeles Times, where her work on child welfare, juvenile justice, and the … Continue reading
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What It Would Mean for the Los Angeles Times to Put the Reader First?
Every newspaper claims to serve its readers. The claim costs nothing. A publisher invokes public trust at the annual gala. An editor cites the public interest in a memo to the staff. The phrase carries the weight of a creed … Continue reading
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Paul Pringle and the Sociology of Institutional Self-Protection
Paul Pringle (b. 1956) investigates the hidden administrative logic of powerful institutions. Across decades he studied how universities, municipal governments, unions, police agencies, child welfare bureaucracies, and media organizations shield themselves from scrutiny while presenting an image of civic legitimacy. … Continue reading
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Dennis McDougal: Dynasties, Monopolies, and Murder
Dennis McDougal (1947-2025) belonged to a generation of Southern California reporters who treated Los Angeles as a machinery of power rather than a fantasy capital. He read the city through its newspapers, studios, police departments, political dynasties, organized crime, labor … Continue reading
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