city editor

When they learned that I had once been a city editor at a daily newspaper near their home in northern Wisconsin, everyone started excitedly telling me their own story.

Tang promoted longtime editor Hector Becerra to managing editor and he tapped city editor Maria L. La Ganga to deputy managing editor for California and Metro.

He was city editor for the California section until 2022, when he was promoted to deputy managing editor, leading the Metro and California sections, the paper’s largest staff.

Times city editor Bill Boyarsky, 88, tackled the age issue in a recent episode of their trenchant and always entertaining podcast — Inside Golden State Politics.

Hoge’s meteoric rise began at the Chicago Sun-Times in 1958, first as a Washington correspondent, then, at age 29, as city editor, followed three years later by his appointment as managing editor.