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LA Times editor resigns after owner refuses presidential endorsement

LA Times editor resigns after owner refuses presidential endorsement



Mariel Garza said it was her way of ‘standing up’ after billionaire Patrick Soon-Shiong quashed supportPatrick Soon-Shiong, the billionaire owner of the Los Angeles Times, refused to allow the newspaper’s editorial board to endorse Kamala Harris for president, the former editor of paper’s opinion section told a media news outlet on Wednesday.Mariel Garza, a veteran California journalist who has worked for the Times’s editorial board for nearly a decade, resigned from the paper in protest of Soon-Shiong’s decision, she told the Columbia Journalism Review (CJR). Continue reading…



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Author : Lois Beckett in Los Angeles, California

Publish date : 2024-10-24 01:05:20

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