In the 19th century, the paper developed a reputation forcivic boosterism and opposition tolabor unions, the latter of which led to thebombing of its headquarters in 1910. The paper's profile grew substantially in the 1960s under publisherOtis Chandler, who adopted a more national focus. As with other regional newspapers in California[10] and the United States, the paper's readership has declined since 2010. It has also been beset by a series of ownership changes, staff reductions, and other controversies.
In January 2024, the paper underwent its largest percentage reduction in headcount—a layoff exceeding 20 percent, including senior staff editorial positions—in an effort to stem the tide of financial losses and maintain enough cash to be viably operational through the end of the year in a struggle for survival and relevance as a regional newspaper of diminished status.[12][13][14]Patrick Soon-Shiong, who has owned the paper since 2018, announced in July 2025 that he would be taking the paper public within a year.[15]
TheTimes was first published on December 4, 1881, as theLos Angeles Daily Times, under the direction ofNathan Cole Jr. andThomas Gardiner.[16][17][18] It was first printed at theMirror printing plant, owned byJesse Yarnell andT. J. Caystile. Unable to pay the printing bill, Cole and Gardiner turned the paper over to the Mirror Company. In the meantime,S. J. Mathes had joined the firm, and it was at his insistence that theTimes continued publication. In July 1882,Harrison Gray Otis moved fromSanta Barbara, California to become the paper's editor.[19] At the same time he also purchased a 1/4 stake in the paper for $6,000 mostly secured on a bank loan.[20]
Otis fastened a bronze eagle on top of a highfrieze of the newTimes headquarters building designed byGordon Kaufmann, proclaiming anew the credo written by his wife, Eliza: "Stand Fast, Stand Firm, Stand Sure, Stand True".[23][24]
After Otis' death in 1917, his son-in-law and the paper's business manager, Harry Chandler, took control as publisher of theTimes. Chandler was succeeded in 1944 by his son, Norman Chandler, who ran the paper during the rapid growth in Los Angeles following the end ofWorld War II. Norman's wife,Dorothy Buffum Chandler, became active in civic affairs and led the effort to build theLos Angeles Music Center, whose main concert hall was named theDorothy Chandler Pavilion in her honor. Family members are buried at theHollywood Forever Cemetery nearParamount Studios. The site also includes a memorial to the Times Building bombing victims.
In 1935, the newspaper moved to a new, landmark Art Deco building, theLos Angeles Times Building, to which the newspaper would add other facilities until taking up the entire city block between Spring, Broadway, First and Second streets, which came to be known asTimes Mirror Square and would house the paper until 2018. Harry Chandler, then the president and general manager ofTimes-Mirror Co., declared the Los Angeles Times Building a "monument to the progress of our city and Southern California".[25]
The fourth generation of family publishers, Otis Chandler, held that position from 1960 till 1980. Otis Chandler sought legitimacy and recognition for his family's paper, often forgotten in the power centers of theNortheastern United States due to its geographic and cultural distance. He sought to remake the paper in the model of the nation's most respected newspapers, such asThe New York Times andThe Washington Post. Believing that the newsroom was "the heartbeat of the business",[26] Otis Chandler increased the size and pay of the reporting staff and expanded its national and international reporting. In 1962, the paper joined withThe Washington Post to form theLos Angeles Times–Washington Post News Service to syndicate articles from both papers for other news organizations. He also toned down the unyieldingconservatism that had characterized the paper over the years, adopting a much more centrist editorial stance.
During the 1960s, the paper won fourPulitzer Prizes, more than its previous nine decades combined.
In 2013,Times reporter Michael Hiltzik wrote that:
The first generations bought or founded their local paper for profits and also social and political influence (which often brought more profits). Their children enjoyed both profits and influence, but as the families grew larger, the later generations found that only one or two branches got the power, and everyone else got a share of the money. Eventually the coupon-clipping branches realized that they could make more money investing in something other than newspapers. Under their pressure the companies went public, or split apart, or disappeared. That's the pattern followed over more than a century by theLos Angeles Times under the Chandler family.[27]
The paper's early history and subsequent transformation were chronicled in an unauthorized history,Thinking Big (1977,ISBN0-399-11766-0), and were one of four organizations profiled byDavid Halberstam inThe Powers That Be (1979,ISBN0-394-50381-3; 2000 reprintISBN0-252-06941-2). Between the 1960s and the mid-2000s it was also the whole or partial subject of nearly thirty dissertations in communications and social science.[28]
TheLos Angeles Times was beset in the first decade of the 21st century by changes in ownership, abankruptcy, a rapid succession of editors, reductions in staff, decreases in paid circulation, the need to increase its Web presence, and a series of controversies.[29] In January 2024, the newsroom announced a roughly 20 percent reduction in staff, due to anemic subscription growth and other financial struggles.[29]
In 2000,Times Mirror Company, publisher of theLos Angeles Times, was purchased by theTribune Company ofChicago, Illinois, placing the paper in co-ownership with the then WB-affiliated (nowCW-affiliated)KTLA, which Tribune acquired in 1985.[32]
On April 2, 2007, the Tribune Company announced its acceptance of real estate entrepreneurSam Zell's offer to buy theChicago Tribune, theLos Angeles Times, and all other company assets. Zell announced that he would sell theChicago Cubs baseball club. He put up for sale the company's 25 percent interest inComcast SportsNet Chicago. Until shareholder approval was received, Los Angeles billionairesRon Burkle andEli Broad had the right to submit a higher bid, in which case Zell would have received a $25 million buyout fee.[33]
In December 2008, the Tribune Company filed forbankruptcy protection. The bankruptcy was a result of decliningadvertising revenue and a debt load of $12.9 billion, much of it incurred when the paper was taken private by Zell.[34]
In 2000,John Carroll, former editor of theBaltimore Sun, was brought in to restore the luster of the newspaper.[40] During his reign at theTimes, he eliminated more than 200 jobs, but despite an operating profit margin of 20 percent, the Tribune executives were unsatisfied with returns, and by 2005 Carroll had left the newspaper. His successor,Dean Baquet, refused to impose the additional cutbacks mandated by the Tribune Company.
Baquet was the first African-American to hold this type of editorial position at a top-tier daily. During Baquet and Carroll's time at the paper, it won 13Pulitzer Prizes, more than any other paper exceptThe New York Times.[41] However, Baquet was removed from the editorship for not meeting the demands of the Tribune Group—as was publisher Jeffrey Johnson—and was replaced by James O'Shea of theChicago Tribune. O'Shea himself left in January 2008 after a budget dispute with publisherDavid Hiller.[42][43]
The paper reported on July 3, 2008, that it planned to cut 250 jobs byLabor Day and reduce the number of published pages by 15 percent.[44][45] That included about 17 percent of the news staff, as part of the newly private media company's mandate to reduce costs.[46] Hiller himself resigned on July 14.[47] In January 2009, theTimes eliminated the separate California/Metro section, folding it into the front section of the newspaper, and also announced seventy job cuts in news and editorial or a 10 percent cut in payroll.[48]
In September 2015,Austin Beutner, the publisher and chief executive, was replaced byTimothy E. Ryan.[49] On October 5, 2015, thePoynter Institute reported that "'At least 50' editorial positions will be culled from theLos Angeles Times" through a buyout.[50] Nancy Cleeland,[51] who took O'Shea's buyout offer, did so because of "frustration with the paper's coverage of working people and organized labor"[52] (the beat that earned her Pulitzer).[51] She speculated that the paper's revenue shortfall could be reversed by expanding coverage ofeconomic justice topics, which she believed were increasingly relevant to Southern California; she cited the paper's attempted hiring of a "celebrity justice reporter" as an example of the wrong approach.[52]
On August 21, 2017,Ross Levinsohn, then aged 54, was named publisher and CEO, replacingDavan Maharaj, who had been both publisher and editor.[53] On June 16, 2018, the same day the sale to Patrick Soon-Shiong closed,Norman Pearlstine was named executive editor.[39]
On May 3, 2021, the newspaper announced that it had selectedKevin Merida to be the new executive editor. Merida was then a senior vice president atESPN and headedThe Undefeated, a site focused on sports, race, and culture; he had previously been the first Black managing editor atThe Washington Post.[54]
TheLos Angeles Times Olympic Boulevard printing press was not purchased by Soon-Shiong and was kept by Tribune; in 2016 it was sold to developers who planned to build sound stages on the site.[55] It had opened in 1990 and could print 70,000 96-page newspapers an hour.[56][57] The last issue of theTimes printed at Olympic Boulevard was the March 11, 2024, edition.[57][58] Printing moved toRiverside, at theSouthern California News Group'sPress-Enterprise printer, which also prints Southern California editions of theNew York Times andWall Street Journal.[59]
In preparation for the printing plant closure and with a refocusing of sports coverage for editorial reasons, daily game coverage and box scores were eliminated on July 9, 2023. The sports section now features less time-sensitive articles, billed as similar to a magazine.[60] The change caused some consternation in theLos Angeles Jewish community, for many of whom reading box scores was a morningShabbat ritual.[61]
On January 23, 2024, the newspaper announced a layoff that would affect at least 115 employees.[62] It named Terry Tang its next executive editor on April 8, 2024.[63]
An abandonedLos Angeles Times vending machine inCovina, California, in 2011
TheTimes has suffered continued decline in distribution. Reasons offered for the circulation drop included a price increase[64] and a rise in the proportion of readers preferring to read the online version instead of the print version.[65] Editor Jim O'Shea, in an internal memo announcing a May 2007, mostly voluntary,reduction in force, characterized the decrease in circulation as an "industry-wide problem" which the paper had to counter by "growing rapidly on-line", "break[ing] news on the Web and explain[ing] and analyz[ing] it in our newspaper."[66]
TheTimes closed itsSan Fernando Valley printing plant in early 2006, leaving press operations to the Olympic plant and toOrange County. Also that year the paper announced its circulation had fallen to 851,532, down 5.4 percent from 2005. TheTimes's loss of circulation was the largest of the top ten newspapers in the U.S.[67] Some observers believed that the drop was due to the retirement of circulation director Bert Tiffany. Others thought the decline was a side effect of a succession of short-lived editors who were appointed by publisher Mark Willes after publisherOtis Chandler relinquished day-to-day control in 1995.[26] Willes, the former president ofGeneral Mills, was criticized for his lack of understanding of the newspaper business, and was derisively referred to by reporters and editors asThe Cereal Killer.[68] Subsequently, the Orange County plant closed in 2010.[69]
TheTimes's reported daily circulation in October 2010 was 600,449,[70] down from a peak of 1,225,189 daily and 1,514,096 Sunday in April 1990.[71][72] By 2024, print circulation was 79,000.[73]
In December 2006, a team ofTimes reporters delivered management with a critique of the paper's online news efforts known as the Spring Street Project.[74] The report, which condemned theTimes as a "web-stupid" organization,[74] was followed by a shakeup in management of the paper's website,[75] and a rebuke of print staffers who were described as treating "change as a threat."[76]
On July 10, 2007, theTimes launched a localMetromix site targeting live entertainment for young adults.[77] A free weeklytabloid print edition of Metromix Los Angeles followed in February 2008; the publication was the newspaper's first stand-alone print weekly.[78] In 2009, theTimes shut down Metromix and replaced it withBrand X, ablog site and free weekly tabloid targeting young,social networking readers.[79]Brand X launched in March 2009; theBrand X tabloid ceased publication in June 2011 and the website was shut down the following month.[80]
An analysis byThe Intercept found that theLos Angeles Times exhibited a consistent bias againstPalestinians in their coverage of the war in Gaza. The outlet disproportionately emphasized Israeli deaths, used emotive language to describe Israeli casualties but not Palestinian ones, and focused more on antisemitism in the U.S. than on anti-Muslim discrimination. The study, which examined over 1,000 articles from the first six weeks of the war, found that Israeli narratives were overwhelmingly favored. Despite the high Palestinian death toll, their suffering was underreported and dehumanized compared to coverage of similar events in other conflicts, such as the war in Ukraine. Thebias in media representation influences public perception and U.S. political support for Israel, even as younger audiences increasingly turn to social media for alternative narratives.[83][84][85]
In 1999, it was revealed that a revenue-sharing arrangement was in place between theTimes andStaples Center in the preparation of a 168-page magazine about the opening of the sports arena. The magazine's editors and writers were not informed of the agreement, which breached theChinese wall that traditionally has separated advertising from journalistic functions at American newspapers. Publisher Mark Willes also had not prevented advertisers from pressuring reporters in other sections of the newspaper to write stories favorable to their point of view.[86]Michael Kinsley was hired as the Opinion and Editorial (op-ed) Editor in April 2004 to help improve the quality of the opinion pieces. His role was controversial, for he forced writers to take a more decisive stance on issues. In 2005, he created aWikitorial, the firstWiki by a major news organization. Although it failed, readers could combine forces to produce their own editorial pieces. It was shut down after being besieged with inappropriate material. He resigned later that year.[87]
In 2003, theTimes drew fire for a last-minute story before theCalifornia recall election alleging thatgubernatorial candidateArnold Schwarzenegger groped scores of women during his movie career. ColumnistJill Stewart wrote on theAmerican Reporter website that theTimes did not do a story on allegations that former GovernorGray Davis had verbally and physically abused women in his office, and that the Schwarzenegger story relied on a number of anonymous sources. Further, she said, four of the six alleged victims were not named. She also said that in the case of the Davis allegations, theTimes decided against printing the Davis story because of its reliance on anonymous sources.[88][89] TheAmerican Society of Newspaper Editors said that theTimes lost more than 10,000 subscribers because of the negative publicity surrounding the Schwarzenegger article.[90]
On November 12, 2005, new op-ed editorAndrés Martinez announced the dismissal of liberal op-ed columnistRobert Scheer and conservative editorial cartoonistMichael Ramirez.[91] TheTimes also came under controversy for its decision to drop the weekday edition of theGarfield comic strip in 2005, in favor of a hipper comic stripBrevity, while retaining it in the Sunday edition.Garfield was dropped altogether shortly thereafter.[92]
On March 22, 2007, editorial page editor Andrés Martinez resigned following an alleged scandal centering on his girlfriend's professional relationship with a Hollywood producer who had been asked to guest-edit a section in the newspaper.[94] In an open letter written upon leaving the paper, Martinez criticized the publication for allowing the Chinese wall between the news and editorial departments to be weakened, accusing news staffers of lobbying the opinion desk.[95]
In November 2017,Walt Disney Studios blacklisted theTimes from attending press screenings of its films, in retaliation for September 2017 reportage by the paper onDisney's political influence in the Anaheim area. The company considered the coverage to be "biased and inaccurate". As a sign of condemnation and solidarity, a number of major publications and writers, includingThe New York Times,Boston Globe criticTy Burr,Washington Post blogger Alyssa Rosenberg, and the websitesThe A.V. Club andFlavorwire, announced that they would boycott press screenings of future Disney films. TheNational Society of Film Critics,Los Angeles Film Critics Association,New York Film Critics Circle, andBoston Society of Film Critics jointly announced that Disney's films would be ineligible for their respective year-end awards unless the decision was reversed, condemning the decision as being "antithetical to the principles of a free press and [setting] a dangerous precedent in a time of already heightened hostility towards journalists". On November 7, 2017, Disney reversed its decision, stating that the company "had productive discussions with the newly installed leadership at theLos Angeles Times regarding our specific concerns".[96][97][98]
In October 2024, Soon-Shiong, the owner of theTimes, told executive editor Terry Tang that the newspaper must not endorse a candidate in the2024 United States presidential election, but should instead print "a factual analysis of all the POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE policies by EACH candidate during their tenures at the White House, and how these policies affected the nation". TheTimes editorial board, which had been preparing to endorseKamala Harris, theDemocratic presidential candidate, rejected this alternative to endorsement, and afterDonald Trump, the Republican candidate, alluded to the newspaper not having endorsed Harris, Mariel Garza, the editor of the opinion section, resigned in protest, as did two other members of the editorial board, Robert Greene and Karin Klein.[99][100][101] Two hundredTimes staff signed a letter condemning the way in which the non-endorsement was handled, and thousands of subscribers cancelled their subscriptions.[102] Soon-Shiong had previously blocked an endorsement by the editorial board in 2020, when he overruled their decision to endorseElizabeth Warren in the2020 Democratic Party presidential primaries.[103]
Following the election, Soon-Shiong stated that he plans to add an AI-powered "bias meter" to all of the paper's articles allowing readers to access "both sides" of stories.[104] Amidst Soon-Shiong's public display of support forRobert F. Kennedy Jr., Trump's pick for leader of theUS Department of Health and Human Services, opinion columnist Eric Reinhart alleged the paper cut a critical piece he wrote about Kennedy.[105]
Times sportswriterJim Murray won a Pulitzer in 1990.
Times investigative reportersChuck Philips andMichael Hiltzik won the Pulitzer in 1999[109] for a year-long series that exposed corruption in the music business.[110]
Times reporters Bettina Boxall and Julie Cart won a Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting in 2009 "for their fresh and painstaking exploration into the cost and effectiveness of attempts to combat the growing menace of wildfires across the western United States."[112]
In 2011,Barbara Davidson was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography "for her intimate story of innocent victims trapped in the city's crossfire of deadly gang violence."[113]
In 2020,Christopher Knight won the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism, "For work demonstrating extraordinary community service by a critic, applying his expertise and enterprise to critique a proposed overhaul of the L.A. County Museum of Art and its effect on the institution’s mission."[116]
By the mid-1940s, theTimes was the leading newspaper in terms of circulation in theGreater Los Angeles. In 1948, it launched theLos Angeles Mirror, an afternoon tabloid, to compete with both theDaily News and the mergedHerald-Express. In 1954, theMirror absorbed theDaily News. The combined paper, theMirror-News, ceased publication in 1962, when the Hearst afternoonHerald-Express and the morningLos Angeles Examiner merged to become theHerald-Examiner.[119] TheHerald-Examiner published its last number in 1989.
In 2014, theLos Angeles Register, published by Freedom Communications, then-parent company of theOrange County Register, was launched as a daily newspaper to compete with theTimes. By late September of that year, however, theLos Angeles Register closed.[120][121]
For 69 years, from 1885[122] until 1954, theTimes issued on New Year's Day a special annual Midwinter Number or Midwinter Edition that extolled the virtues of Southern California. At first, it was called the "Trade Number", and in 1886 it featured a special press run of "extra scope and proportions"; that is, "a twenty-four-page paper, and we hope to make it the finest exponent of this [Southern California] country that ever existed."[123] Two years later, the edition had grown to "forty-eight handsome pages (9×15 inches), [which] stitched for convenience and better preservation", was "equivalent to a 150-page book."[124] The last use of the phraseTrade Number was in 1895, when the edition had grown to thirty-six pages split among three separate sections.[125]
The Midwinter Number drew acclamations from other newspapers, including this one fromThe Kansas City Star in 1923:
It is made up of five magazines with a total of 240 pages – the maximum size possible under the postal regulations. It goes into every detail of information about Los Angeles and Southern California that the heart could desire. It is virtually a cyclopedia on the subject. It drips official statistics. In addition, it verifies the statistics with a profusion of illustration. . . . it is a remarkable combination of guidebook and travel magazine.[126]
In 1948, the Midwinter Edition, as it was then called, had grown to "7 big picture magazines in beautifulrotogravure reproduction."[127] The last mention of the Midwinter Edition was in aTimes advertisement on January 10, 1954.[128]
Between 1891 and 1895, theTimes also issued a similar Midsummer Number, the first one featuring the theme, "The Land and Its Fruits".[129] Because of its issue date in September, the edition was in 1891 called the Midsummer Harvest Number.[130]
Front page of the March 25, 1903, debut issue of the short-livedThe Wireless, published inAvalon[131]
In 1903, Pacific Wireless Telegraph Company established a radiotelegraph link between the California mainland andSanta Catalina Island. In the summer of that year, theTimes made use of this link to establish a local daily paper, based inAvalon,The Wireless, which featured local news plus excerpts which had been transmitted via Morse code from the parent paper.[132] However, this effort apparently survived for only a little more than one year.[133]
In the 1990s, theTimes published various editions catering to far-flung areas. Editions included those from the San Fernando Valley,Ventura County,Inland Empire,Orange County,San Diego County & a "National Edition" that was distributed toWashington, D.C., and theSan Francisco Bay Area. Overall, there were 14 editions succeeded byOur Times, a group of community supplements included in editions of the regularLos Angeles Metro newspaper, with theOur Times editions ceasing publication in 2000.[134]
On April 30, 2020, Charlie Plowman, publisher of Outlook Newspapers, announced he would acquire theGlendale News-Press,Burbank Leader andLa Cañada Valley Sun from Times Community Newspapers. Plowman acquired theSouth Pasadena Review andSan Marino Tribune in late January 2020 from the Salter family, who owned and operated these two community weeklies.[139]
One of theTimes' features was "Column One", a feature that appeared daily on the front page to the left-hand side. Established in September 1968, it was a place for the weird and the interesting; in theHow Far Can a Piano Fly? (a compilation of Column One stories) introduction,Patt Morrison wrote that the column's purpose was to elicit a "Gee, that's interesting, I didn't know that" type of reaction.
TheTimes also embarked on a number ofinvestigative journalism pieces. A series in December 2004 on theKing/Drew Medical Center in Los Angeles led to a Pulitzer Prize and a more thorough coverage of the hospital's troubled history. Lopez wrote a five-part series on the civic and humanitarian disgrace of Los Angeles'Skid Row, which became the focus of a 2009 motion picture,The Soloist. The paper also won 75 awards at the 2020Society for News Design (SND) awards for work completed in 2019.[140]
From 1967 to 1972, theTimes produced a Sundaysupplement calledWest magazine.West was recognized for its art design, which was directed by Mike Salisbury (who later became art director ofRolling Stone magazine).[141] From 2000 to 2012, theTimes published theLos Angeles Times Magazine, which started as a weekly and then became a monthly supplement. The magazine focused on stories and photos of people, places, style, and other cultural affairs occurring inLos Angeles and its surrounding cities and communities. In 2014,The California Sunday Magazine was included in the SundayL.A. Times edition, but stopped publishing in 2020.[142]
In 2024, theTimes published an "L.A. Influential" series, featuring the city's most prominent moguls, artists, community leaders, and others.[143][144] The feature is arranged in six categories, based on industry and other details.[145]
Since 1980, theTimes has awarded annual book prizes. The categories are now biography, current interest, fiction, first fiction, history, mystery/thriller, poetry, science and technology, and young adult fiction. In addition, theRobert Kirsch Award is presented annually to a living author with a substantial connection to the American West whose contribution to American letters deserves special recognition".[148]
In 1960, Times Mirror of Los Angeles bought the book publisher New American Library, known for publishing affordable paperback reprints of classics and other scholarly works.[150] The NAL continued to operate autonomously from New York and within the Mirror Company. In 1983, Odyssey Partners and Ira J. Hechler bought NAL from the Times Mirror Company for over $50 million.[149]
In 1967, Times Mirror acquired C.V. Mosby, a professional publisher and merged it over the years with several other professional publishers including Resource Application, Inc., Year Book Medical Publishers, Wolfe Publishing Ltd., PSG Publishing Company, B.C. Decker, Inc., among others. Eventually in 1998 Mosby was sold to Harcourt Brace & Company to form the Elsevier Health Sciences group.[151]
The Times-Mirror Company (1947–1963, 1970–1993) Silent (1963–1970)
The Times-Mirror Company was a founding owner of television stationKTTV inLos Angeles, which opened in January 1949. It became that station's sole owner in 1951, after re-acquiring the minority shares it had sold toCBS in 1948. Times-Mirror also purchased a former motion picture studio,Nassour Studios, inHollywood in 1950, which was then used to consolidate KTTV's operations. Later to be known asMetromedia Square, the studio was sold along with KTTV toMetromedia in 1963.
After a seven-year hiatus from the medium, the firm reactivatedTimes-Mirror Broadcasting Company with its 1970 purchase of theDallas Times Herald and its radio and television stations,KRLD-AM-FM-TV inDallas.[152] TheFederal Communications Commission granted an exemption of itscross-ownership policy and allowed Times-Mirror to retain the newspaper and the television outlet, which was renamedKDFW-TV.
1 Co-owned withCBS until 1951 in ajoint venture (51 percent owned by Times-Mirror, 49 percent owned by CBS);
2 Purchased along withKRLD-AM-FM as part of Times-Mirror's acquisition of theDallas Times Herald. Times-Mirror sold the radio stations to comply with FCC cross-ownership restrictions.
On January 19, 2018, employees of the news department voted 248–44 in a National Labor Relations Board election to be represented by the NewsGuild-CWA.[157] The vote came despite aggressive opposition from the paper's management team, reversing more than a century of anti-union sentiment at one of the largest newspapers in the country.[158]
Cecil Smith (1917–2009), features writer and reporter 1947–1958; television critic and entertainment editor 1958–1964; drama critic 1964–1969; television critic and columnist 1969–1982[162]
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