L.A. Times City Columnist Moonlights as an Uber Driver
Steve Lopez had a fun and semi-financially rewarding time.
Two weeks after Los Angeles Times publisher Austin Beutner first learned via his car radio that he had been relieved of his Spring Street duties, one of the newspaper’s other bonafides, Steve Lopez, has written about the experience of working briefly as an UberX driver.
For many Angelenos, the day Lopez exits the paper will mark the true end of (L.A.) Times. So in a sense, this weekend’s feature about the city columnist’s ride-share driver stint is like a glimpse into the nightmare:
If I’m ever short on column material, I think I might turn on my driver’s app and go fishing for fares.
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