Thread. The @ladailynews, part of @southerncanewsgroup, said in June that they would fill my position with a BIPOC journalist to begin rectifying its lack of Black and other staffers of color. I left the paper a couple weeks ago.

Stellar LA based reporters are interviewing for the job and it’s exciting. But the company, owned by @medianewsgroup, is offering candidates **$39k** a year. I was paid $45k but this is criminally low.

Our hedge fund owner Alden Global Capital made $160 million in 2017 by slashing newsrooms to the bone. Furloughs, layoffs and exits have only continued. Cutting a reporter’s wage by $6,000 should anger readers who depend on quality local news, especially now.

The president and publisher of SoCal News Group is Ron Hasse [email protected]