Otis Chandler

ABOUT OTIS CHANDLER

The scion of the wealthy Chandler family who took over the Los Angeles Times and transformed it into a nationally respected publication.

He grew up indulging his hobbies from weightlifting to big game hunting, and narrowly missing the 1952 Helsinki Olympics due to a wrist injury.

Under his watch, the L.A. Times opened international bureaus and hired on Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists, at the same time buying several television station and the Newsday newspaper.

His parents, Norman Chandler and Dorothy Chandler , were both major financiers for Los Angeles cultural institutions.

Like Adolph Ochs , the founder of the New York Times, he was the publisher one of the major newspapers of the United States.