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Matt Lait is the city editor at the Los Angles Times and an adjunct instructor at the University of Southern California. Lait helped receive the 2016
Harriet Ryan is a Bronze Award Winner of the Barlett & Steele Award for Investigative Journalism. Ryan is an investigative reporter for the Los Angeles
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