David Haldane
Haldane started as an underground reporter for the countercultural Berkeley BARB in the 1970s. After working at the San Gabriel Valley Tribune and Riverside Press Enterprise, he joined the Los Angeles Times in 1985. He worked there for years as a staff writer. He wrote about many subjects and helped with two Pulitzer Prize-winning stories. These were stories about the LA riots in 1993 and the California wildfires in 2004. Haldane is also a former reporter and weekend news anchor at Z107.7 FM radio in Joshua Tree, California.