Sign of the (L.A.) Times

Thursday's Los Angeles Times story on the indictment of a L.A. Unified official for allegedly funneling district business to his company rightly credits an earlier Times investigation that exposed the conflict of interest. What isn't mentioned is that the reporter, Evelyn Larrubia, was laid off last year and is now associate editor of the Los Angeles Daily Journal.

Noted: The Times' Doug Smith and Francine Orr shared in an Investigative Reporters & Editors award for a joint ProPublica, LAT and ABC News report on civilian contractors injured in Iraq and Afghanistan. KPCC's Molly Peterson and Neon Tommy were finalists for IRE awards.