Mike Kessler
Former Senior Editor of Investigations and Projects
(he/him)
Mike Kessler was Senior Editor of Investigations and Projects at LAist.com before leaving in 2021. He is currently Investigations Editor for The California Newsoom, based at KQED.
Kessler was also the host, co-reporter, and co-writer of the investigative podcast The Running Man, on ESPN; his work for ESPN.com is featured in the book Best American Sports Writing 2020; and a 30-minute documentary he reported with ESPN won a 2020 Sports Emmy. Kessler’s work has twice been a finalist for the National Magazine Award, and included in several anthologies. An L.A. native and former writer-at-large for Los Angeles magazine, he has been working in journalism since 1996.
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This week, we’ll be looking back at our coverage of 2020. -
Our reporter Adolfo Guzman-Lopez said he had just finished interviewing a kneeling protester when he felt something strike his throat. 'It just doesn't square up with, you know, what is the policy towards using rubber bullets.'
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It often starts with a question. We listen closely, so we can uncover the truth about issues you care about.
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2018 was truly horrible: the state's deadliest and most destructive fires, a mass shooting in Thousand Oaks, the death of our favorite food critic Jonathan Gold, another sex abuse scandal (this time at USC) and a World Series loss we can't wait to forget.
