“We’ll be losing a lot of very valuable people and that’s just really hard to take. It’s hard for me, too,” Kevin Merida, executive editor of the Los Angeles Times, said Thursday during a Zoom meeting with employees. Facing a raw and angry staff stunned by the announcement of 73 layoffs, Los Angeles Times Executive Editor Kevin Merida on Thursday …
Kevin Merida is the former executive editor of the Los Angeles Times. He experimented with storytelling innovations to nudge the paper beyond its print roots, including forming a team of social media journalists, called the 404 by LA Times, and De Los, an online news vertical providing news and commentary to engage Latinos “through a shared sense of culture and …
