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…
Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/media/2024/oct/23/la-times-editor-resigns-presidential-endorsement
Author : Lois Beckett in Los Angeles, California
Publish date : 2024-10-24 01:05:20
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LA Times editor resigns after owner refuses presidential endorsement
