The publisher of the Los Angeles Times since June 16, 2018, has been Patrick Soon-Shiong, who purchased the newspaper from the Tribune Company of Chicago.
Soon-Shiong replaced Ross Levinsohn, who was appointed to the position in August of 2017 following the firing of publisher Davan Maharaj.
The person responsible for operating the newspaper was officially called the president and general manager,[2] but he was casually referred to as the publisher.
[3] The official list of past publishers offered by the Times in both print and electronic versions begins with Harrison Gray Otis in 1882,[4] but Otis never held that title officially.
The list below includes all the people who could be considered the chief executive officer of the newspaper.