Update
Article in The Guardian by Lois Beckett, 10/25/24
Subhead: “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.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/oct/25/los-angeles-times-owner-blocks-harris-endorsement
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Article in The Guardian by Lois Beckett, 10/23/24 Wed 23 Oct 2024 21.05 EDT
Headline: “LA Times editor resigns after owner blocks presidential endorsement”
Subhead: “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).
“ ‘In dangerous times, honest people need to stand up. This is how I’m standing up,’ ” Garza told CJR.
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2024/oct/23/la-times-editor-resigns-presidential-endorsement