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The L.A. Times has hired a new Metro desk editor to oversee City Hall coverage. It's John Hoeffel, who ran the San Jose Mercury's coverage of the Gray Davis recall and state government. Most recently he was the Mercury's national and foreign editor. In Los Angeles he is reunited with Noam Levey, a recently hired Times City Hall reporter who used to cover state government for the Mercury.
Also, the Los Angeles Business Journal has lost real estate writer Danny King. He's going to Bloomberg News in the Bay Area; Andy Fixmer moves over to cover real estate. In recent months, veterans Darrell Satzman and RiShawn Biddle also departed the Business Journal. And Rick Henderson, the former Washington editor and managing editor of Reason magazine, is headed to the Riverside Press-Enterprise as editorial writer. He had been writing editorials for Las Vegas Review-Journal. Because his new employer required him to, Henderson has shut down his blog, the Deregulator. His final post is here.
of LA Observed
Because his new employer required him to...
Every time I read something like that--opinions being stifled for the sake of pleasing an employer--I thank God that somehow I ended up beholden to nobody. And then, two seconds later, I recall--no, it wasn't luck, it was courage; what a disgrace to the sell-out who buckled. It's excusable, I think, up to about age 40--much after that, it's pathetic.
Posted by: joseph at April 26, 2004 04:41 PM