Leans left
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Founded in 1881 and bought in 2018 by the biotechnology billionaire Patrick Soon-Shiong, ending its ownership by a chain. It is the largest newspaper on the West Coast and covers immigration, entertainment and California politics with unusual depth.
Its regional reporting is widely respected and it has won major awards since the change of ownership. Critics point to repeated rounds of newsroom cuts, and to a proprietor who has publicly intervened in editorial decisions, including on presidential endorsement, which raises for the left the same question conservatives have long asked about billionaire owners.