As pressure mounted amid revelations that The Los Angeles Times’ billionaire owner Patrick Soon-Shiong blocked an editorial board endorsement for Kamala Harris this week, the newspaper’s guild pled with readers to not cancel their subscriptions.
“Before you hit the ‘cancel’ button: That subscription underwrites the salaries of hundreds of journalists in our newsroom,” the Los Angeles Times Guild Unit Council shared in a statement Thursday. “Our member-journalists work every day to keep readers informed during these tumultuous times. A healthy democracy is an informed democracy.”
The statement came Thursday after TheWrap exclusively reported on the paper’s inner newsroom turmoil over the decision to skip an endorsement ahead of November’s presidential election, which led to the resignation of one of its top editors on Wednesday.
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