LOS ANGELES - Key Persons


Curtis B. Smith

Job Titles:
  • Co - Director of the Fund
  • Web Master

Doug Smith

Job Titles:
  • Co - Director of the Fund

Harry B. Chandler

Job Titles:
  • Media Executive
Harry B. Chandler has been a media executive in film, TV, the Internet and at The Times.

Jack Smith

Job Titles:
  • Columnist

Ken Weiss

Ken Weiss works near me, a local native who, along with Usha McFarling and Rick Loomis, spent long days and nights - more than a year - reporting a groundbreaking series on the decline of the world's oceans. I'm a few feet away from Charlie Ornstein and Tracy Weber, who barely took a breath after their expose of King/Drew Medical Center before moving on to an alarming series on organ transplants. And they share a work area with Cara Mia DiMassa, who has owned the story of downtown L.A.'s changing face. I feel like a laggard when I see Joel Rubin and Howard Blume rush in from interviews and call out to each other as they coordinate daily stories on the revolutionary changes in the Los Angeles Unified School District.