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Matthew Ballinger is a former deputy editor at the Los Angeles Times. Ballinger joined The Times in 2008 and held roles on several teams — including Climate, Health and Science; the homepage; and copy editing — as well as founding the Utility Journalism Team and working on the rollouts of several newsroom technology platforms.
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Kenan Draughorne is a former reporter at the Los Angeles Times and was a member of the 2021-22 Los Angeles Times Fellowship class.
Sonaiya Kelley is a former staff writer for the Los Angeles Times. The Bronx, N.Y., native has also contributed to the New York Times, Essence and Keyframe Magazine. She is an alumna of Stony Brook University’s School of Journalism and the Bronx High School of Science.
Steve Henson is a breaking news and enterprise reporter at the Los Angeles Times. He previously served as an editor and reporter in the Sports department. Henson was a leader in digital-only newsrooms from 2007-19 as a senior editor and columnist at Yahoo Sports and as senior editor at the USA Today Sports Media Group. This is his second stint at The Times, having covered the Dodgers and UCLA as well as doing enterprise, investigative and features writing from 1985-2007. Henson was awarded first place in sports features in 2023 and in 2021 by the L.A. Press Club. He has been honored several times by APSE — most recently in 2023 and 2021 — and also by the California News Publishers Assn., the Football Writers Assn. of America and U.S. Basketball Writers Assn.
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