The LA Times’ former parent company, Tronc (now Tribune Publishing), gave a $2.5 million secret payout to Davan Maharaj, the former editor-in-chief and publisher of the paper. Apparently, Maharaj taped former Tribune chairman Michael Ferro making an anti-semitic comment about LA billionaire Eli Broad. Maharaj’s huge payout came as Tribune was undergoing mass layoffs and losing revenue.
Former LA Times top editor took a $2.5 million payout and kept silent about his boss’ anti-semitic slur
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- David Folkenflik - NPR media correspondent and author of the book “Murdoch's World: The Last of the Old Media Empires” - @davidfolkenflik
- Carolina Miranda - LA Times columnist - @cmonstah