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Hector Becerra named managing editor of The Times
Hector Becerra, a veteran Times journalist and Los Angeles native, has been named managing editor of the paper. Veteran Los Angeles Times journalist Hector Becerra has been named managing editor of the newspaper. Becerra graduated from Theodore Roosevelt High School and Cal State Los Angeles, where he served as editor of the University Times. Earlier this month, then-Executive Editor Kevin Merida announced his departure from The Times after tensions with the paper’s owner, Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong.


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