Richard Verrier named L.A. Times Business editor
Richard Verrier, who has led Company Town since 2016, will oversee a newly combined department that will deepen the newsroom’s California-focused coverage of business and the entertainment industry. The following announcement is sent on behalf of Interim Executive Editor Terry Tang and Managing Editor Hector Becerra: We’re very happy to announce that Richard Verrier will become Business editor, effective today. This new structure will allow us to deepen Business coverage, with a focus on California, and provide more support for our award-winning entertainment industry coverage by Company Town reporters. Verrier has run the Company Town team since 2016, overseeing a number of groundbreaking investigations, including stories about sexual misconduct at CBS TV stations, corruption inside the Golden Globes and the “Rust” shooting tragedy that was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize.
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