Michael Parks, a Pulitzer-Prize-winning foreign correspondent for The Los Angeles Times who went on to become the top editor at the paper, one of the nation’s largest metropolitan dailies, died on Jan. 8 at a hospital in Pasadena, Calif. Parks reported from around the world from 1970 to 1995, first for The Baltimore Sun and then for The Los Angeles Times. Parks was the fifth correspondent that year to receive an expulsion order. The Times decided to appeal; the story of the Black majority’s rebellion against white rule was too important not to cover. Parks and editors from Los Angeles met in Cape Town with three government ministers to plead their case.

Source: Los Angeles Times January 15, 2022 03:49 UTC