journalism

Dr. Battinto Batts Leads ASU School of Journalism in DTLA

Dr. Battinto L. Batts Jr. is bringing his expertise as a veteran journalist to minority students attending the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism & Mass Communication in Downtown Los Angeles. The ASU California Center in Los Angeles is designed to meet the needs of students and lifelong learners. 

Councilmember’s Curren Price and Marqueece Harris-Dawson, Supervisor Holly Mitchell, and California Highway Patrol sponsor reward for information about the 16-year-old’s shooting death

The Los Angeles City Council and Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors have posted a combined $60,000 in reward money and the California Highway Patrol and State of California have added $50,000, for a total of $110,000, for information leading to the person or people responsible for the shooting death of a 16-year-old girl whose body was found dumped alongside the Harbor (110) Freeway.  

Tioni Theus Deserves Better 

When 24-year-old, UCLA grad student Brianna Kupfer was murdered at a furniture store in Los Angeles, I was quite shocked at how quickly the police and news media worked together to put the suspect’s description and photo out to the public.