Robert Hernandez

USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism

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Associate professor of professional practice at USC's Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism 

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The latest buyout of news room veterans at the LA Times has a former editor saying, the "loss of knowledge and wisdom" makes you want to cry."

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