Liam Dillon joining L.A. Times Sacramento bureau

Liam Dillon (@dillonliam) an accomplished investigative journalist, is joining our State Capitol bureau in Sacramento.

In six years at the nonprofit Voice of San Diego news site, Dillon has won awards for his stories about San Diego’s crumbling infrastructure, racial profiling by its police department and cross-border corruption involving a Mexican businessman who made illegal campaign contributions to U.S. politicians.

In our Sacramento bureau, he will cover politics and policy in state government as part of an expansion of our coverage of the executive branch.

Dillon joined Voice of San Diego in 2009 and is now its senior reporter and assistant editor. Previously, he was a staff writer for the Naples Daily News in southwest Florida and a part-time sports reporter for the Washington Post. He has freelanced on San Diego subjects for the Post and the New York Times.

Dillon grew up outside Philadelphia and has a bachelor’s degree in government from Georgetown University. He speaks advanced Spanish.

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