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Marika Gerrard

Co-founder, The Los Angeles News Service

Marika Gerrard co- founded The Los Angeles News Service in 1983 pioneering 24 hour helicopter newsgathering. Her historic video includes live coverage of the 1992 Riots and the iconic video of the beating of Reginald Denny, the Northridge Earthquake and numerous live pursuits including locating O.J. Simpson in the White Bronco.

She started her career writing for the Los Angeles Times covering such stories as The Laurel Canyon Murders and the Signal Hill Police Brutality investigation.

She currently manages and licenses The Los Angeles News Service 10,000-tape videotape archive of historic news footage.

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