Friday, August 03, 2001 10:44 PM
LOS ANGELES, May 22, 2001 – Virginia Ellis, an award-winning reporter who has worked for the Los Angeles Times since 1988, has been named Sacramento Bureau chief.
Ellis most recently won national recognition for a series of stories that ultimately led to the resignation of California’s Insurance Commissioner Chuck Quackenbush. She was awarded the 2001 George Polk and Selden Ring awards and was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in beat reporting for that coverage.
“Virginia Ellis is the quintessential statehouse reporter,” said Dean Baquet, managing editor, Los Angeles Times. “She’s covered the biggest of them – Texas, Florida, and California. And she broke the best investigative story in the state last year. She’ll be a strong, edgy bureau chief.”
Ellis succeeds Rone Tempest, who is becoming senior California correspondent after serving as bureau chief since 1999.
Prior to joining the Los Angeles Times, Ellis served as the Austin bureau chief for the Dallas Times Herald from 1980 to 1988. Before that she was the Tallahassee bureau chief from 1975 to 1980 for the St. Petersburg Times.
Ellis holds a degree in journalism from the University of Florida, Gainesville.
The Los Angeles Times, a Tribune Publishing company, is the largest metropolitan daily newspaper in the country and winner of 25 Pulitzer Prizes. The Times publishes four daily regional editions covering the Los Angeles metropolitan area, Orange and Ventura Counties and the San Fernando Valley, as well as an Inland Valley section and a National Edition.
