LA Times editor resigns after owner blocks presidential endorsement
by Lois Beckett in Los Angeles, California from World news | The Guardian on (#6RPRZ)
Mariel Garza says she is standing up' after billionaire Patrick Soon-Shiong quashes support for Kamala Harris
Patrick 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 the paper's opinion section told a media news outlet on Wednesday.
Mariel Garza, a veteran California journalist who has worked for the Times' editorial board for nearly a decade, resigned from the paper in protest of Soon-Shiong's decision, she told the Columbia Journalism Review (CJR).
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