Leovy, LA Times cybersecurity reporter, among those let go

Jill Leovy

Award-winning Los Angeles Times cybersecurity reporter Jill Leovy was fired on Monday along with four of the paper’s top editors, reports Kevin Roderick of LA Observed.

Roderick reports, “Leovy is the author of the bestselling book on South Los Angeles, ‘Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America,’ and first made a big splash at the Times as the writer of the online Homicide Report blog, which under her watch endeavored to post a news item about every single murder in Los Angeles for more than a year. Her firing is disclosed without explanation in the night update of the earlier Times story announcing the firing of editor-publisher Davan Maharaj, managing editor Marc Duvoisin, deputy managing editor Megan Garvey and investigations editor Matt Doig.

Leovy is married to Duvoisin. She has been listed most recently as a cybersecurity reporter in the Business section.

“Also out is Ana Mata, the administrative assistant to Davan Maharaj, according to the updated Times story on itself. Another managing editor, Lawrence Ingrassia, posted over the weekend his intention to retire from the Times and his name has curiously not been mentioned in any of the paper’s coverage today.”

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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.