Tom Hamburger, Former Los Angeles Times Reporter, Joins The Washington Post

Former Los Angeles Times reporter Tom Hamburger has joined the Washington Post's National staff.

Post editors sent staffers a memo announcing the news on Thursday. Hamburger, who joins the Post from the LA Times' Washington bureau, has also worked for the Wall Street Journal, McClatchy Newspapers, and the Minneapolis Star Tribune.

Post editors described Hamburger's upcoming assignments regarding campaign finance. "He will find an enthusiastic home at The Post, where we look forward to him exploring the growing role of outside money in presidential politics and many other aspects of the campaign and power in Washington," the memo stated.

The Post newsroom has experienced a few staff changes in recent months. Managing editor Raju Narisetti left the paper to join the Wall Street Journal just last week. Four Post staffers left the National desk in late December. The Times has also undergone newsroom changes. Last month, executive editor Russ Stanton left the paper.

Comments

[InfinteShibumi]

12:08 PM on 01/30/2012

That's a change. WaPo has been hemorrhaging journos over the past year or so. I guess things are looking up...

[Alwayspissedoffatsomeone]

01:29 AM on 01/30/2012

The LA Times has journalists?

[HeevenSteven]

02:27 PM on 01/29/2012

They've both become right wing rags, so what's the diff..

[InfinteShibumi]

12:09 PM on 01/30/2012

The "times" they are a changin'". And not always for the good.

[Jeffrey Bryson]

01:19 PM on 01/29/2012

About ten years ago, the Los Angeles Times cost fifty cents and had a decent amount of national and international coverage, with several Pulitzer Prizes to its name in those areas. Now the paper costs one dollar, and gets all of its news from wire services. The owners seem to have decided that the best way to compete with the comprehensive and inexpensive to free news coverage found online is to provide less content for more money.

By now, the bankruptcy and dissolution of the newspaper would be nothing more than a mercy killing.

[jalowe1957]

01:21 AM on 01/29/2012

The only value the Los Angeles Times has these days is as replacements for paper towels to be used by transients cleaning car windshields for pocket change.

Meanwhile, Otis Chandler is barfing in his grave over all this.

[IllinoisLoafer]

01:39 PM on 01/28/2012

Wasn't he also the prosecutor in the old Perry Mason series ???

[fishinwithtom]

12:45 PM on 01/28/2012

I'd like to blame Chicago and the Tribune corporation, but the fact of the matter is the LA Times was on it's way down even before that unfortunate occurrence. Couple that with the Sam Zell fiasco and I guess we should count our lucky stars that we even HAVE a paper in LA. But as a daily reader since 1968 it is to weep when you remember this used to be the place Paul Conrad won Pullitzers and the paper Richard Nixon hated the most. Anymore, the LAT has both the physical weight, and the journalistic weight of People Magazine.

[lecloche]

09:04 PM on 01/28/2012

What? The LA Times still publishes?

[1logicalthinker]

11:30 PM on 01/26/2012

I lost all respect for the L.A. Times when they let Robert Scheer go. In recent years, the quality of the once respectable newspaper has declined so much that even my birds are ashamed to have it lining their cages ;)

[plaidsportcoat]

12:47 PM on 01/27/2012

Did they "let him go" or did they fire him?
I like him.

[1logicalthinker]

02:29 PM on 01/27/2012

They fired him.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-scheer/on-leaving-the-la-times_b_10509.html

[surfandshop]

05:16 PM on 01/26/2012

Dear L.A.Times: You were correct about arnold, I thought you were just being too democratic party..but it was the truth. Sorry I cancelled my subscription.