A Los Angeles Times opinion writer who was one of the latest casualties in the mass layoffs taking place at the Southern California newspaper says that the timing of the reorganization could disproportionately affect the Latino community during a critical election year.
Los Angeles Times opinion writer Jean Guerrero, known widely in Southern California as the newspaper’s only Latina opinion columnist, was laid off last week as one of 115 other editorial staff members who lost their job.
She is now speaking out about the consequences of the Times layoff, which comes in the wake of other reorganizations that occurred at other major Hispanic American news outlets such as CNN, NBC News, NPR, Telemundo, and Univision.