“In dangerous times, honest people need to stand up. This is how I’m standing up.” In a post on the social media platform X that did not directly mention the resignation, LA Times owner Patrick Soon-Shiong said the board was asked to do a...
Nika Soon-Shiong, daughter of billionaire owner of the Los Angeles Times, Patrick Soon-Shiong, says she was involved in decision not to endorse the Democratic candidate due to the war against Hamas, which she called a "genocide." Read more...
Patrick Soon-Shiong told NPR, “We’ll be as competitive vis-à-vis The New York Times and The Washington Post.” In 2024, just before the Presidential election, the owner did not allow the LA Times to endorse Democratic candidate Kamala Harris. Finally, in December of 2024, the owner ...
Veteran journalists Robert Greene and Karin Klein announced their resignations Thursday, a day after the editorial page editor Mariel Garza left in protest over LA Times owner Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong's decision not to endorse a candidate.
L.A. Times to lay off at least 115 people in the newsroom The L.A. Times began laying off 115 newsroom employees on Tuesday. Owner Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong said the cuts were necessary to trim heavy financial losses. Jan. 23, 20245:55 PM PT Share Entertainment & Arts...
York for a meeting with President-elect Donald Trump. It was announced Wednesday, Feb. 7, 2018, that the Los Angeles Times is being sold to Soon-Shiong, a local billionaire, for $500 million, ending its strained tenure under the owner of the Chicago Tribune. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File...
Los Angeles Times owner Patrick Soon-Shiong on his plans to shake up the newspaper and build for the future. Dec. 15, 2024 Politics Some Democrats are disturbed by the Hunter Biden pardon President Biden pardoned his son Hunter Biden on Sunday, sparing him from a possible prison sentence...
The decision follows a move by Los Angeles Times owner Patrick Soon-Shiong to block that newspaper's endorsement of Vice President Kamala Harris, which has sparked the resignation of the editorials editor, Mariel Garza, followed by the resignations oftwo other membersof its editorial board...
The article reports on the decision of billionaire Patrick Soon-Shiong to join fellow billionaire and hedge fund manager Steven Cohen in a bid to acquire the Los Angeles Dodgers baseball team. The participation of Soon-Shiong in the bidding team allowed Cohen to solve a public relations problem....
The editor, Mariel Garza, told the CJR she left because she wanted to “make it clear” she opposed owner Patrick Soon-Shiong’s decision to intervene in the paper’s editorial process. She said the paper’s editorial board was prepared to endorse Vice President...