Article 6RQX9 Los Angeles Times sees resignations and loss of subscriptions after owner blocks Harris endorsement

Los Angeles Times sees resignations and loss of subscriptions after owner blocks Harris endorsement

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Lois Beckett
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Biotech billionaire Patrick Soon-Shiong, who bought the newspaper in 2018, wouldn't let board endorse Harris

Nearly 2,000 Los Angeles Times subscribers cancelled their subscriptions to the paper, citing editorial content" reasons, after Patrick Soon-Shiong, the paper's billionaire owner, refused to let its editorial board endorse Kamala Harris for president. And that was just on Tuesday and Wednesday.

After the paper's editorials editor, Mariel Garza, resigned in protest on Wednesday, two more members of the Los Angeles Times editorial board resigned on Thursday.

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