Russ Stanton

Russ Stanton, a 12-year veteran of the Los Angeles Times, is the newsroom's 14th editor.

He oversees the largest daily newsgathering organization in the West. It includes the Los Angeles Times, the nation's fourth-largest newspaper, which reaches an estimated 2.5 million readers each day; and latimes.com, the fastest-growing newspaper website in the U.S., which attracts more than 10 million unique
visitors a month.

Stanton joined The Times in 1997 as a business reporter in the Orange County edition. He was named the edition's business editor in 1998 and moved downtown in 2000 to become assistant technology editor.

He became deputy business editor in 2002 and was named business editor in 2005, overseeing a staff of 65 reporters and editors who worked in Los Angeles and in seven bureaus around the world: Beijing, Mexico City, Washington, D.C., New York, San Francisco, Sacramento and Orange County. Times business reporters were twice named finalists in the annual Gerald Loeb Awards for excellence in financial journalism during Stanton's tenure.

In 2007, Stanton was named to the newly created masthead post of innovation editor, where he oversaw the rapid expansion of the online news report and the restructuring and integration of The Times' Web operation with its print newsroom.

Before joining The Times, he worked at the Orange County Register, the Riverside Press-Enterprise and the San Bernardino County Sun. He began his career as a business reporter at the Visalia Times-Delta, in California's San Joaquin Valley.

Stanton, a California native, is a 1984 fellow of the Herbert J. Davenport Economics Program at the University of Missouri and a 1981 graduate of the California State University, Sacramento.

He is a member of the American Society of Newspaper Editors, the Online News Association and the Society of American Business Editors and Writers, and is a judge of the Loeb Awards.