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• American sportswriter embarks on gender incarnation

  - 2007-04-27

  LOS ANGELES AFP — After years of agonizing over his gender identity, a senior Los Angeles Times journalist announced in a column Thursday that he is a transsexual. Mike Penner, who has worked in the Times sports department for 23 years, said he is taking on a new identity...

  Tags: Agence France-Presse, identity, journalist, Los Angeles Times

• Global migration and immigration about the journey.

  - 2006-09-22

  "The border was mysterious, lawless and magical. It was the frontier where cultures collide and blend. And the global future in the making," writes Sebastian Rotella, as he recalled his reporting from the U.S.-Mexico border during the 1990's. Still with the Los Angeles Times, now as...

  Tags: Europe, immigrant, immigration, journalist, Los Angeles Times, migration, worker

• Assessing the risks reporters in Iraq confront: 'I don't believe in the journalist as a hero.'.(Courage: War Coverage)

  - 2006-06-22

  John Burns, who is Baghdad bureau chief for The New York Times, delivered the 25th Joe Alex Morris, Jr. Memorial Lecture, held at the Nieman Foundation on March 9, 2006. This annual lecture honors Morris, a foreign correspondent with the Los Angeles Times who was killed while...

  Tags: Baghdad, heroe, Iraq, journalist, Los Angeles Times, New York Times Co.

• US newspapers protest expulsion from Guantanamo

  - 2006-06-15

  WASHINGTON AFP — Three US newspapers -- the Los Angeles Times, the Miami Herald and the Charlotte Observer -- protested the expulsion of their reporters from the US "war on terror" detention facility in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. "Expelling Carol Williams and her colleagues represents a Stone Age attitude that...

  Tags: E-mail, journalist, Los Angeles Times

• Dana Rohrabacher, auteur.(Devil in the Details)

  - 2005-12-01

  ON NOVEMBER 4, THE Los Angeles Times reported that Orange County Representative Dana Rohrabacher had opened Capitol Hill doors to a movie producer, Joseph Medawar, interested in ginning up political support for a proposed TV series about the Department of Homeland Security. The news that Medawar...

  Tags: FINANCE, journalist, Los Angeles Times, Republican, TVs

• Russia: Missing American Journalist - found.(Brief Article)

  - 2004-02-12

  According to Gazeta-Ru, US journalist Rebecca Santana, from the Los Angeles Times newspaper, who had been missing since February 8, had been found alive and well. It is a major concern of all foreign delegations to make sure their people are fine during any project that takes...

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• Contemplating the relevancy of age and race: 'my youth and race have been assets to my journalism during my budding career.'.(Race and Reporting)

  - 2003-09-22

  There's nothing wrong with small newsrooms; I just knew I didn't want to work in one. So last year, when I was accepted into the Tribune Company's two-year Minority Editorial Training Program METPRO, beginning at the Los Angeles Times, it was a dream come true. Not...

  Tags: asset, CAREER, journalism, journalist, Los Angeles Times

• IRAQ: U.S. PAPER LAUDS WORK OF EMBEDDED REPORTS.(report on fighting in war in Iraq)(Brief Article)

  - 2003-05-20

  The last day of full-scale fighting in the Iraq war, 3 April, was vividly portrayed in more than 800 page of dispatches from 85 journalists embedded with the key U.S. 3rd Infantry Division, the "Los Angeles Times" reported on 11 May. Reports from these journalists also...

  Tags: Iraq, journalist, Los Angeles Times, MARKETING

• Los Angeles Times Statement Regarding the Release of Journalists Ruth Morris and Scott Dalton

  - 2003-02-01

  News Editors LOS ANGELES--BUSINESS WIRE--Feb. 1, 2003 The following is a statement from the Los Angeles Times: We are delighted that journalists Ruth Morris and Scott Dalton have returned safely and soon will be reunited with their families and friends. We are extremely grateful for the many...

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• The Religion Newswriters Association

  - 2001-10-10

  The Religion Newswriters Association, the professional organization for journalists covering religion news for the secular media, has given its top reporting prize to Douglas Todd of the Vancouver Sun. The annual contest winners were announced September 23 following the group's meeting in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Todd won $3,500 as the Templeton...

  Tags: Cambridge, journalist, Los Angeles Times, MARKETING, Massachusetts, Vancouver