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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Dan Milmo and Lois Beckett

Patrick Soon-Shiong: the billionaire LA Times owner who blocked Harris endorsement

Dr Patrick Soon-Shiong new owner of the LA Times outside their new office in El Segundo, Los Angeles wearing a suit with his arms crossed and smiling
Soon-Shiong has sometimes struggled to bring staff with him since he bought the LA Times in 2018. Photograph: Dan Tuffs/The Guardian

In 2020, Patrick Soon-Shiong wrote an article for the Los Angeles Times, the newspaper he owns, reflecting on the murder of George Floyd and what it said about “centuries of racism in America”.

Announcing the Times’s reckoning with itself, in the form of an overview by the paper’s editorial board of the newspaper’s history in covering and employing people of colour, Soon-Shiong told readers: “We invite you along on our journey”.

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