Ronald Brownstein to Return to Los Angeles Times

Posted on July 9, 1998

Prize-winning national reporter and columnist Ronald Brownstein will return to the Los Angeles Times next month, editor Michael Parks announced Thursday.

"I'm returning to the Los Angeles Times because I believe, without qualification, it is the place where I can do my best work," Brownstein said. "I've enjoyed my opportunity to try weekly journalism at U.S. News & World Report, but I've learned that I belong in daily newspapers."

Brownstein, 40, worked for The Times in Los Angeles and Washington from 1987 through January 1998, when he left to join U.S. News & World Report. Parks and Brownstein said they had discussed his return to the newspaper for several weeks. Brownstein will resume writing his weekly "Washington Outlook" column for The Times as well as significant stories on both national and international issues. He will play a major role in the newspaper's coverage of the presidential campaign in the year 2000.

Brownstein was a Pulitzer Prize finalist for his campaign coverage in 1996 and has won other national reporting awards. He is the author of The Power and the Glitter: the Hollywood-Washington Connection (Pantheon, 1991) and co-author of Storming the Gates: Protest Politics and the Republican Revival (Little, Brown, 1996).

Brownstein serves as a political analyst for the CNN news program "Inside Politics." He also has appeared frequently on other television programs, including "Washington Week in Review" (PBS), "The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer" (PBS), "Meet the Press" (NBC) and "Face the Nation" (CBS).