Michael Parks, Reporter Who Rose to Lead The Los Angeles Times, Dies at 78

A Pulitzer winner, he covered the Vietnam War, the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of apartheid in South Africa before running The Times’s newsroom.

Michael Parks, Reporter Who Rose To Lead The Los Angeles Times, Dies At 78

The New York Times – by Katharine Q. Seelye

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. He was 78.

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