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Michael Hiltzik

Michael Hiltzik
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Michael Hiltzik

Michael Hiltzik is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author who has covered business, technology, and public policy for the Los Angeles Times for twenty years. In that time he has served as a financial and political writer, an investigative reporter, and as a foreign correspondent in Africa and Russia. He currently serves as the Times business columnist. His other books include The Plot Against Social Security (2005), Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age (1999), and A Death in Kenya (1995). Mr. Hiltzik received the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for articles exposing corruption in the entertainment industry. Among his other awards for... Read full bio

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BOMB Magazine, April 18, 2013
...springy beginning, the book moves smoothly into a discussion of precedents: other protest movements in America’s history. Michael Hiltzik’s “The 5 Percent” describes how a group of senior citizens protested the “the concentration of wealth in...
Idaho Statesman, March 24, 2013
...Submit Your Photos Deals! View All Search for Deals Search local inventory, coupons and more Powered by By MICHAEL HILTZIK — LOS ANGELES TIMES Americans just love feeling philanthropic. In any debate over cutting tax breaks in the income...
Tacoma News Tribune, March 20, 2013
...makes an effective charity, and how to figure out that the one getting your money meets that standard. Michael Hiltzik, a Los Angeles Times business columnist, is the author of "The New Deal: A Modern History" and "Colossus: The Turbulent, Thrilling...
Pantagraph.com, February 10, 2013
...type of legislating that has to change to avoid more cases like Swartz's. --- ABOUT THE WRITER Michael Hiltzik is a columnist for the Los Angeles Times. Readers may send him email at mhiltzik@latimes.com. --- Distributed by MCT Information...
Idaho Statesman, December 26, 2012
...bought. Leave the rules as vague as they are, and the victims will be authors, consumers and publishers. Michael Hiltzik: mhiltzik@latimes.com...
Los Angeles Times, December 24, 2012
...bought. Leave the rules as vague as they are, and the victims will be authors, consumers and publishers. Michael Hiltzik's column appears Sundays and Wednesdays. Reach him at mhiltzik@latimes.com, read past columns at latimes.com/hiltzik, check out...
Los Angeles Times, December 24, 2012
...bought. Leave the rules as vague as they are, and the victims will be authors, consumers and publishers. Michael Hiltzik's column appears Sundays and Wednesdays. Reach him at mhiltzik@latimes.com, read past columns at latimes.com/hiltzik, check out...
Los Angeles Times, January 19, 2013
...gone tomorrow. "So I say, don't buy a bomb shelter. Buy an underground cabin, and enjoy it." Michael Hiltzik's column appears Sundays and Wednesdays. Reach him at mhiltzik@latimes.com, read past columns at latimes.com/hiltzik, check out...
Fresno Bee, January 19, 2013
..._ You know all those warnings about how America's addiction to deficit spending is going to make us look like Greece? Stop worrying. The bigger concern should be that America will look like Argentina. That could happen, theoretically, if the...
Los Angeles Times, January 19, 2013
...gone tomorrow. "So I say, don't buy a bomb shelter. Buy an underground cabin, and enjoy it." Michael Hiltzik's column appears Sundays and Wednesdays. Reach him at mhiltzik@latimes.com, read past columns at latimes.com/hiltzik, check out...
Yahoo! Canada, January 18, 2013
...plane. (Just 5% of the famous 747  was made in countries outside the US.) That fact comes from Michael Hiltzik’s investigation of how an unprecedented outsourcing push contributed to the Dreamliner being years late and billions of dollars over...
Pacific Palisades Patch, January 18, 2013
...In recent years, the PPDC hosted Rep. Henry Waxman, state controller John Chiang and L.A. Times columnist Michael Hiltzik. They also recently had a candidates forum featuring Richard Bloom, Besty Butler and Torie Osborn vying for the clubs endorsement...
Atlantic Monthly, January 17, 2013
...the Dreamliner has been whether Boeing erred in outsourcing so much of the plane's manufacturing and design. Michael Hiltzik of the Los Angeles Times went into this in depth in a celebrated article two years ago; I also address it in China Airborne. Even...
Chatsworth Patch, January 17, 2013
...Levinson will be the keynotespeaker at the January 17 session and Pulitzer Prize-winning Los Angeles Times journalist and Michael Hiltzik will be the keynote speaker at the January 19 meeting. LINK lwvlosangeles.org… 34.169537 -118.527262 ...