The Los Angeles Times has hired Jack Herrera as a national correspondent focused on expanding coverage of the changing American West. He begins May 30.
Recently, Herrera was a senior editor at Texas Monthly, where he covered Latino issues, immigration and elections.
Before that, he reported, wrote and hosted Texas Monthly’s “White Hats” podcast, a six-episode narrative series on the Texas Rangers.
He was a contributing editor at Politico and has freelanced for The New Republic, CJR, The Nation, Popular Science, Prism and SF Weekly. He worked as an editorial fellow and contributing writer at Pacific Standard Magazine.
The American Society for Magazine Editors recently recognized Herrera with a Next Award for journalists under 30.
Herrera graduated from Stanford University.
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