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Scott Glover

Glover has been at the Los Angeles Times for 10 years, covering the LAPD, working on the paper’s investigative team and most recently, serving as an investigative reporter in the city-county bureau. Before joining the Times, Glover worked at daily newspapers in Oregon, New Jersey and Florida. He has won numerous local, state and national awards for investigative reporting, including the prestigious Livingston Award for Young Journalists. He received the Heywood Broun Award in Washington, D.C., for stories undermining the 20-year-old murder case against a San Fernando Valley man imprisoned for killing his mother. Glover was also a key contributor to the Times’ coverage of the 2003 California wildfires, which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for breaking news.

Matt Lait

Lait has been a reporter with the Los Angeles Times for 17 years. Prior to joining the Times, he worked as an editorial assistant and reporter for two years at the Washington Post. He has won more than a dozen local and state awards for his reporting. Lait played roles in two staff efforts that resulted in Pulitzer Prizes for the Times, one for coverage of the 1997 North Hollywood shootout, the other for coverage of the 2003 California wildfires. He received the Heywood Broun Award in Washington, D.C. for stories undermining the 20-year-old murder case against a San Fernando Valley man imprisoned for killing his mother. Lait was recently promoted and is now a legal affairs editor overseeing coverage of courts and police.