After a lifetime at the Los Angeles Times, Deputy Business Editor Nancy Rivera Brooks is retiring from the paper.
Her last day is Friday, March 15.
Rivera Brooks has worked at the L.A. Times for 42 years in a variety of roles of increasing importance and responsibilities, starting as a business reporter in 1982. After a 16-year run, she went on to cover the energy sector.
She made the jump to editorial management in 2004, becoming the paper’s assistant business editor. She was promoted to her current role in 2022.
Rivera Brooks was part of a team of reporters, editors and photographers who won a Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for a 1983 multi-part series about Latinos in Southern California.
She was inducted into the NAHJ Hall of Fame in 2017.