Mariel Garza, editorials editor at The Los Angeles Times, has resigned. The announcement comes after the paper's billionaire owner killed an endorsement of Kamala Harris for president.
Garza confirmed her departure in a text message to The Standard. In an interview with Columbia Journalism Review, she said she resigned “to make it clear that I am not okay with us being silent.”
In her resignation letter, Garza wrote of the non-endorsement, “It makes us look craven and hypocritical, maybe even a bit sexist and racist. How could we spend eight years railing against Trump and the danger his leadership poses to the country and then fail to endorse the perfectly decent Democrat challenger — who we previously endorsed for the US Senate?”
Good for her.