Julie Cart – Kit Stolz

A great reporter tells her father’s story on the front page

Julie Cart is a terrific, award-winning environmental reporter, whose work I have been reading and admiring for many years in the Los Angeles Times. Today she tells, on the front page, the story of her father's secret life as a project manager in a top secret surveillance satellite system. But there's more, and it's mostlyContinue reading “A great reporter tells her father’s story on the front page”

Economic Stimulus Package: Good News for Yosemite?

At The Los Angeles Times, reporters specializing in science and the environment are becoming something of an endangered species. Before being purchased by real estate tycoon Sam Zell, the newspaper employed over a thousand editors and reporters; now it's about half that, according to the numbers meticulously compiled by the LA Observer. But it's stillContinue reading “Economic Stimulus Package: Good News for Yosemite?”