The editor for the Los Angeles Times editorial section resigned on Wednesday after the newspaper’s owner reportedly stopped its editorial board from endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris for president.
Editorials editor Mariel Garza told the Columbia Journalism Review’s Sewell Chan in an interview that she quit because the newspaper was remaining silent on the presidential race.
“I am resigning because I want to make it clear that I am not OK with us being silent,” Garza told Chan. “In dangerous times, honest people need to stand up. This is how I’m standing up.”
On X, Garza reposted the Columbia Journalism Review article along with a message from Chan, the paper’s executive director: “My friend Mariel Garza just resigned as editorials editor of @latimes after the newspaper’s owner blocked the editorial board’s plan to endorse Kamala Harris for president.”…
