LA Observed contributors

Kevin Roderick, editor and publisher

Kevin Roderick, an author, journalist and radio commentator, started LA Observed in 2003 and writes the main blog.
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Mark Lacter, LA Biz Observed editor

Mark Lacter is a regular contributor to Los Angeles magazine specializing in Southern California business, and the business analyst for KPCC-FM.
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Bob Baker

Bob Baker runs the writing website newsthinking.com and contributes to Native Intelligence.
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Cari Beauchamp

Cari Beauchamp is an author of several books about Hollywood, a writer for Vanity Fair and the former press secretary to California Governor Jerry Brown.
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Bill Boyarsky

Bill Boyarsky, an author and former city editor, columnist and City Hall bureau chief at the Los Angeles Times, writes a blog column about politics for LA Observed.
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Jenny Burman

Jenny Burman, a journalist with an M.F.A. degree in fiction from the Iowa Writers' Workshop, writes the Chicken Corner blog.
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Sara Catania

Sara Catania, a Los Angeles print journalist and author, writes the Run On blog about her training as a non-runner to compete in the Los Angeles Marathon.
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Adrienne Crew

Adrienne Crew, who runs L.A. Brain Terrain and has written a book about blogging, contributes to Native Intelligence.
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David Davis

David Davis is the author of "Play by Play: Los Angeles Sports Photography 1889-1989" (Angel City Press) and a contributing writer at Los Angeles Magazine.
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Veronique de Turenne

Veronique de Turenne is a journalist, playwright and essayist. She writes the Here in Malibu blog and contributes to Native Intelligence.
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Eric Estrin

Eric Estrin, a television writer with a journalism background, is a columnist for The Wrap.com and produced the LA Observed Script Project.
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Bruce Feirstein

Bruce Feirstein, a contributing editor at Vanity Fair who has also written three James Bond movies, has contributed to Native Intelligence.
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Judy Graeme

Judy Graeme is LA Observed's resident student of art history with an emphasis on photography. She contributes to Native Intelligence.
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Steve Greenberg

Steve Greenberg, the editorial cartoonist for LA Observed, worked for daily newspapers for 30 years and currently freelances for the Ventura County Reporter, Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles and web sites in Europe and locally.
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Denise Hamilton

Denise Hamilton, a former Fulbright Scholar and Los Angeles Times staff writer, is an award-winning mystery author and editor.
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Victor Merina

Victor Merina is a freelance writer and Senior Fellow at the USC Annenberg Institute for Justice and Journalism.
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Jenny Price

Jenny Price is a journalist and the author of "Flight Maps: Adventures with Nature in Modern America."
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David Rensin

David Rensin has written and co-written twelve books, five of them New York Times bestsellers. He contributes to Native Intelligence.
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Sean Roderick

Sean Roderick once saw nine musicals in six days in New York City. She is majoring in ethnomusicology at UCLA.
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Nancy Rommelmann

Nancy Rommelmann is an author and journalist who left Los Angeles for Portland, Oregon. She contributes to Native Intelligence.
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Erika Schickel

Erika Schickel is an author and blogger who contributes to Native Intelligence.
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Iris Schneider

Iris Schneider is a photographer who contributes to Native Intelligence.
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Jacob Soboroff

Jacob Soboroff, executive director of the non-partisan group Why Tuesday?, has contributed videos and blog posts to Native Intelligence.
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Deanne Stillman

Deanne Stillman is an author, playwright and journalist who has written for Rolling Stone, Slate, the New York Times, Los Angeles Magazine, the Boston Globe, the Huffington Post and elsewhere.
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TJ Sullivan

TJ Sullivan is an award-winning independent journalist whose work has appeared in scores of daily publications, including the Los Angeles Times and Chicago Tribune.
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Phil Wallace

Phil Wallace is a former employee of the Tampa Bay Devil Rays who worked as an analyst for NYC2012, New York's bid for the 2012 Olympic Games. He writes about sports.
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8:08 PM Thu | Journo jumps from Daily Journal to Warren Olney

11:50 PM Wed | Protester who smacked LAPD cop sentenced to jail

11:31 PM Wed | Michael J. Ybarra, journalist was 45

10:21 AM Tue | Andy Griffith, actor was 86

Mark Lacter funeral services

2:07 PM Sat | The funeral for Mark Lacter will be held Sunday, Nov. 24 at 12 noon at Hillside Memorial Park, 6001 W. Centinela Avenue, Los Angeles 90045. Reception to follow.