Otis Chandler was the publisher of the Los Angeles Times between 1960 and 1980, leading a large expansion of the newspaper and its ambitions. He was the fourth and final member of the Chandler family to hold the paper's top position.
Chandler in 1972
A bust of Otis Chandler in the lobby of the former Los Angeles Times Building, 2014.
Chandler with Mayor Tom Bradley and Hugh Hefner, 1980.
The Los Angeles Times is a regional American daily newspaper that started publishing in Los Angeles, California in 1881. Based in the Greater Los Angeles area city of El Segundo since 2018, it is the sixth-largest newspaper by circulation in the United States, as well as the largest newspaper in the western United States. Owned by Patrick Soon-Shiong and published by California Times, the paper has won more than 40 Pulitzer Prizes.
Rubble of the Los Angeles Times building following the 1910 bombing
Otis Chandler and Harrison Gray Otis in August 1917
A Times newspaper vending machine featuring news of the 1984 Summer Olympics
The newspaper's current headquarters in El Segundo, California