Kevin Roderick, an author, journalist and radio commentator, started LA Observed in 2003 and writes the main blog.
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Mark Lacter is a regular contributor to Los Angeles magazine specializing in Southern California business, and the business analyst for KPCC-FM.
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Judy Graeme is a photographer with a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design.
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Bill Boyarsky, an author and former city editor, columnist and City Hall bureau chief at the Los Angeles Times, writes about politics for LA Observed.
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Jenny Burman, a journalist with an MFA in fiction from the Iowa Writers' Workshop, writes the Chicken Corner blog.
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Veronique de Turenne is a journalist, playwright and essayist. She writes Here in (the) Malibu and contributes to Native Intelligence.
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Steve Greenberg, an editorial cartoonist, worked for daily newspapers for 30 years and now freelances for the Ventura County Reporter, Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles and web sites in Europe and locally.
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Adrienne Crew writes the LA Crone blog and contributes to Native Intelligence.
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Gary Leonard, a photographer of Los Angeles for more than 40 years, contributes the weekly feature Take My Picture Gary Leonard.
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Ellen Alperstein is an independent writer and editor whose commentaries and essays have appeared in the Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, Newsday and other metropolitan newspapers.
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Cari Beauchamp is an author of several books about Hollywood, a writer for Vanity Fair and the former press secretary to California Governor Jerry Brown.
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Eric Estrin, a television writer and journalist, has been a columnist for The Wrap and produced the LA Observed Script Project.
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Denise Hamilton, a former Fulbright Scholar and Los Angeles Times staff writer, is an award-winning mystery author and editor.
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Jenny Price is a journalist and the author of "Flight Maps: Adventures with Nature in Modern America."
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David Rensin has written and co-written twelve books, five of them New York Times bestsellers. He contributes to Native Intelligence.
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Sean Roderick once saw nine musicals in six days in New York City. She contributes to Native Intelligence.
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Nancy Rommelmann is an author and journalist who left Los Angeles for Portland, Oregon. She contributes to Native Intelligence.
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Erika Schickel is an author and blogger who contributes to Native Intelligence.
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Iris Schneider is a photographer who contributes to Native Intelligence.
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John Schwada is a former reporter for Fox 11 television, the Los Angeles Times and the Herald Examiner.
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Deanne Stillman is an author, playwright and journalist who has written for Rolling Stone, Slate, the New York Times, Los Angeles Magazine, the Boston Globe, the Huffington Post and elsewhere.
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Bob Timmermann used to blog about baseball at The Griddle. He has contributed pieces to Dodger Thoughts and Baseball Analysts, and is a vice president of the Allan Roth Chapter of the Society of American Baseball Research.
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Phil Wallace is a former employee of the Tampa Bay Rays who worked as an analyst for NYC2012, New York's bid for the 2012 Olympic Games. He writes about sports.
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