L. D. Hotchkiss

Loyal Durand Hotchkiss (November 25, 1893 – April 15, 1964) was an American newspaper journalist who served as the editor-in-chief of the Los Angeles Times.

The son of Willis M. and Jan Margaret (Ritchie) Hotchkiss, he was born in Bloomfield, Iowa, where he attended public school.

In 1920, he moved to California, where he worked for William Randolph Hearst’s Los Angeles Examiner.

In 1938, Hotchkiss, his publisher Norman Chandler, and the Times-Mirror Company (owner of the Los Angeles Times) were jointly found guilty of contempt of court for editorials that commented on pending court cases.

[1] The Times took its fight for freedom of the press to the U.S. Supreme Court, where the newspaper was vindicated on December 8, 1941.