LA Times Pulitzer Winners Feared for their Safety in Bell

LA Times Pulitzer winners Jeff Gottlieb and Ruben Vives were in New York this week to speak at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. The Columbia Journalism Review wrote up their talk and shared this story we had never heard before.

After threatening to sue if their information request was not fulfilled, Gottlieb and Vives received a seemingly ominous invitation: come and get the documents, in person, at nearby Little Bear Park, from city manager Robert Rizzo himself.

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