LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A former top editor at Bloomberg, Time magazine and the Wall Street Journal, who has steered some of the most influential U.S. publications over five decades, has been hired as executive editor of the Los Angeles Times, the paper's new owner said on Monday.
Norman Pearlstine, 75, will become the first person to lead the Times under the ownership of Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong, a South African billionaire whose purchase of the paper closed earlier in the day.
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