Award-winning author and Los Angeles Times columnist to speak to Seniors for Peace on Jan. 16

Seniors For Peace will hold the first meeting of the new year on Thursday, Jan. 16, at 2 p.m. in Clubhouse 4. Due to the renown of the featured speaker, the general meeting is being held at a larger venue and on a different day than usual.

The club is pleased to host Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author Michael Hiltzik, who will present a speech on the future of journalism. Hiltzik will talk about how he sees journalism being affected in the foreseeable future and how he and fellow journalists plan to deal with it.

Hiltzik has written for the Los Angeles Times for more than four decades, serving as a financial and political writer, investigative reporter, technology writer and editor, and foreign correspondent in Africa and Russia. He is the author of seven books, of which the most recent, “Iron Empires: Robber Barons, Railroads, and the Making of Modern America” (2020), covers the nation’s history during the Gilded Age of the late 19th century. His next book, “A History of California,” will be published in February. With his colleague Chuck Philips, Hiltzik received the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for breaking news for articles exposing corruption in the entertainment industry. His other awards for excellence in reporting include the 2004 Gerald Loeb Award for outstanding business commentary and the Silver Gavel from the American Bar Association for outstanding legal reporting. A graduate of Colgate University and Columbia University, he lives in Southern California.

All LW residents and their guests are welcome. Call Pat Kruger at 562-357-4040 for more information.

Michael Hiltzik

Amy Myers