LA Times hires Darmiento as assistant biz editor

Laurence Darmiento

Laurence Darmiento, who has been editor of the San Fernando Valley Business Journal, has been hired as an assistant business editor of the Los Angeles Times.

Times business editor Kimi Yoshino wrote:

Please join me in welcoming assistant business editor Laurence Darmiento to the staff.
Laurence has deep knowledge of the Los Angeles business scene. Most recently, he was editor of the San Fernando Valley Business Journal. Prior to that, he spent six years as managing editor of the Los Angeles Business Journal, where he edited several stories honored by the Society of American Business Editors and Writers. Laurence, who attended Cornell University, has worked as a reporter at the Business Journal, Los Angeles Daily News and other local newspapers. He is a single dad with a teenage son.
Laurence has already found common ground with several other members of the business staff. For stress relief, he loves to ride his road bike – that is when he’s not peeling himself off the ground.

Darmiento is a Cornell University graduate.

Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.