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 Bill Boyarsky, Contributor
Bill Boyarsky is a lecturer in journalism at the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School for Communication and is vice president of the Los Angeles City Ethics Commission. Boyarsky was city editor of the Los Angeles Times when he retired in 2001. Before that, he was a columnist, city-county bureau chief and political writer. He was a member of reporting teams that won three Pulitzer prizes and he has won awards from the Society of Professional Journalists and the Greater Los Angeles Press Club. He has also taught at the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern, California State University at Northridge and the University of California at Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism. He was given a fellowship at Berkeley for research on his biography of the late California political leader, Jesse M. Unruh. The book, Big Daddy: Jesse Unruh and the Art of Power Politics, was published by the University of California Press in November of 2007. Boyarsky is the author of four other books: The Rise of Ronald Reagan; Ronald Reagan, His Life and Rise to the Presidency; Los Angeles: City of Dreams; and Backroom Politics. His wife, Nancy, was co-author of Backroom Politics. He is a columnist for the Jewish Journal and blogs for LA Observed. Truthdig Articles200806/23 Notes on a California Sea Change 06/05 Exposing the GOP’s Voter Suppression Campaign 05/22 Citizen Journalism: In With the New 05/13 Campaign ’08: Giving U.S. Health Care a Checkup 05/01 Church, State and Campaign ’08 04/24 Courting the ‘White Vote’ 04/19 ABC’s Philadelphia Story: Punditry Over Politics 04/10 Sinking Into the Quagmire 04/03 Nobody Votes for a Quitter 03/31 Bill Boyarsky on the Inimitable Willie Brown 03/17 Looking Beyond the ‘Racial Divide’ 03/06 Dems Dropping the Ball on Iraq Debate 02/28 Obama and the Jews 02/19 Unconventional Wisdom 02/07 The Common Enemy 01/28 Looking Beyond Race 01/11 A Vagueness in Obama’s Message 01/07 The Battleground of New Hampshire 01/04 Off the Beaten Campaign Trail 01/01 God and John McCain 200712/26 The Iowa Caucus Con 12/23 Banking on Grass Roots in Iowa 12/20 Iowa ’08: Barack Obama Live 12/16 Looking Beyond the Haircut 11/29 Making a Case for the Long View 11/18 Obama Campaigners Work the Switchboards 11/10 Deconstructing Rudy 10/28 Such Fickle Political Lovers 10/18 Could Gore Be a Contender? 10/11 Listening to America’s Black Middle Class 10/02 Beating the Odds 09/23 Hillary Clinton Takes On Healthcare (Again) 09/11 Candidates for Sale 08/24 Bridging the Democratic Divide 08/14 War in Iraq, Poverty in America 08/03 ACORN Stays the Course 07/24 CNN/YouTube Debates: Democrats in Sharper Focus 07/17 McCain Campaign: Not Dead Yet 06/19 Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell: Immigration and Ignorance 06/05 The Biggest Loser 05/19 Democrats’ Faustian Bargain 05/09 Republicans in Disneyland 04/30 Airing Gonzales’ Dirty Laundry 04/12 Welcome to the Boys’ Club
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