L.A. Times Promotes Joy Press to Books and Culture Editor
Sixteen years after co-authoring The Sex Revolt: Gender, Rebellion, and Rock’N’Roll, cool LA journo couple Simon Reynolds and Joy Press are still going strong. He just had a piece in The Guardian about the explosive expansion of the U.S. electronic dance music scene, while she was promoted Wednesday to a choice new LA Times position.
Per the memo from editor Davan Maharaj and assistant managing editor Alice Short, Press has been tapped to replace Jon Thurber as the paper’s books and culture editor:
Joy has been Calendar’s pop culture and deputy television editor for two and a half years.
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