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Long published by the Chandler family and Times Mirror Co., which was acquired by Tribune Co. in 2000. In 2007, as part of Samuel Zell's $8B acquisition of Tribune Co., the Chandlers agreed to be bought out, ending a hundred years of family proprietorship.

Circulation peaked at 1.2M in 1990, and was down to 700,000 in 2008.

Official Website:
http://www.latimes.com/

Location:
Los Angeles, CA

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Max Boot	Columnist	1969		Conservative pundit
Tom Braden	Columnist	22-Feb-1917	3-Apr-2009	Crossfire, Eight Is Enough
Barbara Taylor Bradford	Novelist	5-May-1933		Emma Harte saga
Ron Brownstein	Columnist	6-Apr-1958		The Los Angeles Times
Edgar Rice Burroughs	Novelist	1-Sep-1875	19-Mar-1950	Tarzan
Albert V. Casey	Business	28-Feb-1920	10-Jul-2004	CEO of American Airlines, 1974-85
Jonathan Chait	Journalist	1972		Senior Editor, The New Republic
Otis Chandler	Publisher	23-Nov-1927	27-Feb-2006	Publisher of the L.A. Times, 1960-80
Eleanor Clift	Journalist	7-Jul-1940		Madam President
Alexander Cockburn	Columnist	6-Jun-1941	20-Jul-2012	The Nation, CounterPunch
Paul Conrad	Cartoonist	27-Jun-1924	4-Sep-2010	Political cartoonist
Borzou Daragahi	Journalist	c. 1966		Los Angeles Times reporter
S. S. Van Dine	Novelist	15-Oct-1888	11-Apr-1939	The Canary Murder Case
Susan Estrich	Pundit	16-Dec-1952		Fox News liberal
Georgie Anne Geyer	Journalist	2-Apr-1935		Foreign correspondent turned columnist
Jonah Goldberg	Columnist	21-Mar-1969		National Review Online
Ed Guthman	Journalist	11-Aug-1919	31-Aug-2008	Nixon enemy, Pulitzer Prize winner
Jane Hall	Journalist	?		Fox News Watch commentator
Jacob Heilbrunn	Journalist	c. 1965		They Knew They Were Right
David D. Hiller	Publisher	12-Jun-1953		LA Times publisher, 2006-08
Michael Hiltzik	Columnist	9-Nov-1952		Los Angeles Times columnist
David Cay Johnston	Journalist	24-Dec-1948		Perfectly Legal
Paul Kennedy	Historian	17-Jun-1945		The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers
Michael Kinsley	Pundit	9-Mar-1951		Founding editor of Slate
David Laventhol	Publisher	15-Jul-1933	8-Apr-2015	President of Times Mirror, 1987-93
Eric Lichtblau	Journalist	c. 1965		NY Times reporter
Andrew H. Malcolm	Columnist	22-Jun-1943		Los Angeles Times editorial board
James Mann	Author	18-Sep-1946		Rise of the Vulcans
Doyle McManus	Journalist	c. 1952		LA Times Washington bureau chief
Walter Russell Mead	Author	12-Jun-1952		Special Providence
Jack Nelson	Journalist	11-Oct-1929	21-Oct-2009	The Los Angeles Times
Michele Norris	Radio Personality	7-Sep-1961		NPR host, All Things Considered
James O'Shea	Journalist	?		LA Times Editor, 2006-08
Kevin P. Phillips	Pundit	30-Nov-1940		Political commentator
Danielle Pletka	Pundit	12-Jun-1963		American Enterprise Institute
Jody Powell	Government	30-Sep-1943	14-Sep-2009	Jimmy Carter's Press Secretary
Ruth Reichl	Critic	16-Jan-1948		Editor-in-Chief, Gourmet magazine
Andrew Revkin	Journalist	c. 1956		New York Times science reporter
James Risen	Journalist	c. 1955		NY Times national security reporter
Tim Rutten	Columnist	?		Los Angeles Times columnist
Ruben Salazar	Journalist	3-Mar-1928	29-Aug-1970	L.A. Times reporter killed on the job
Robert Scheer	Columnist	4-Apr-1936		Former L.A. Times columnist
Richard T. Schlosberg III	Publisher	c. 1943		Publisher of LA Times, 1994-97
Bill Schneider	Pundit	8-Oct-1944		CNN senior political analyst
Joel Siegel	Critic	7-Jul-1943	29-Jun-2007	Film critic
Joel Stein	Columnist	23-Jul-1971		LA Times columnist
Karen Tumulty	Journalist	1-Dec-1955		Time political correspondent
Laura D. Tyson	Economist	28-Jun-1947		Dean of London Business School
Murray Waas	Journalist	c. 1960		Washington reporter
Lally Weymouth	Journalist	3-Jul-1943		The Washington Post
Mark H. Willes	Business	16-Jul-1941		CEO of Times Mirror, 1995-2000
Jules Witcover	Columnist	16-Jul-1927		Longtime Baltimore Sun columnist

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