Russ Stanton, a 10-year veteran of the Los Angeles Times, is the newspaper's 14th editor.

Most of Stanton's 27 years in the newspaper industry have been spent in business sections. He left the business editor job at the Orange County Register in 1997 to join The Times as a reporter in Orange County. He was the edition's Business editor, then moved on to be technology editor and deputy Business editor in Los Angeles. He was appointed Business editor in 2005, heading a staff of 65 reporters and editors who work in L.A. and in eight bureaus around the world.

In 2007, he was named to the newly created post of innovation editor. In that position, he oversaw the online news report and started to integrate The Times' print newsroom with its Web operation.

The son of a homemaker and an accountant, Stanton grew up in Tulare in the San Joaquin Valley, working on student newspapers from junior high school through college. Before joining The Times, he worked at the Orange County Register for nine years, the Riverside Press-Enterprise and the San Bernardino County Sun. He began his career as a business reporter at the Visalia Times-Delta. He is a fervent Dodgers fan.

Stanton 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.