Catching Up With a Very Special L.A. Times Intern

Nika Soon-Shiong is headed back to the African continent.

As L.A. Weekly writer Hillel Aron makes mention of in his tronc deep-dive “Desperate Times, Desperate Measures,” the daughter of Patrick Soon-Shiong was for two summers an intern at the Los Angeles Times. A fact that has gained new prominence now that her father, routinely ranked as one of L.A.’s two richest individuals (alongside Elon Musk), owns a large stake in parent company tronc.

This bit of history begs the question – what has daughter Nika been up to since her stints at the paper’s science desk in 2012 and 2013, during which time she wrote nearly three dozen articles? The answer is massively impressive.

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