Patrick Soon-Shiong: the billionaire LA Times owner who blocked Harris endorsement
Biotech tycoon’s decision to refuse to allow presidential endorsement led to resignations and subscribers’ revolt
In 2020, Patrick Soon-Shiong wrote an article for the Los Angeles Times, the newspaper he owns, reflecting on the murder of George Floyd and what it said about “centuries of racism in America”.
Announcing the Times’s reckoning with itself, in the form of an overview by the paper’s editorial board of the newspaper’s history in covering and employing people of colour, Soon-Shiong told readers: “We invite you along on our journey”.
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