Special Projects Editor Alice Short
To Speak to OFS on May 27
By Bob Rawitch
Alice Short, who started her more-than-three-decade career at The Los Angeles Times in the Valley Edition and rose to become daily Calendar editor and editor of the Times Magazine, among other positions, will speak by Zoom to the OFS from noon to 1:30 p.m. on May 27.
Alice Short
If you wish to participate in the Zoom call, email bob@rawitchconsulting.com; you will receive a link a day or two prior to the call.
Currently special projects editor, Short assists in editing Column One features. It is her second stint in Metro. Most of her career was spent on the paper’s “soft” side; in 2008 she was named as assistant managing editor overseeing travel, books, fashion, food, home and health content.
She left The Times in January 2016 to work as a freelance editor and writer, but returned to the paper three years later, saying that for her, working with Times journalists “is something akin to breathing—necessary and, upon occasion, life affirming.”
In the last three years, layoffs and voluntary departures through buyouts or otherwise has dramatically affected staffing in both the California Section and features sections. With the recently announced planned layoffs of 14 additional editorial staffers, total staffing is now likely below 300.
Executive Editor Terry Tang had been scheduled to talk to the OFS in May, but her office called and said she had to cancel. Two days later the recent layoffs were announced.