Sent on behalf of executive sports editor Chris Stone:I am thrilled to announce that Iliana Limón Romero is joining the Los Angeles Times as deputy sports editor. “I loved everything about it, especially watching the presses run.”The family subscribed to both El Paso daily newspapers. Her mother, Lily, a high school principal, told her the story of a reporter from El Paso who had worked at the city’s Herald-Post before moving on to the Los Angeles Times. Though Romero grew up in a state that reveres the Dallas Cowboys and Texas Longhorns, the Limón family living room was Dodgers and Lakers country, as El Paso was served by Los Angeles network TV affiliates. Advertisement“I could not be more excited about joining the exceptional Los Angeles Times sports department,” she said.

Source: Los Angeles Times February 18, 2021 20:48 UTC