About Jason Kandel

Jason Kandel, formerly online news reporter, is the online news editor at the Los Angeles Daily News. His responsibilities include reporting breaking news, taking feeds from reporters in the field, writing enterprise stories for online and print, posting blog entries to the paper's crime blog, Mean Streets, and shooting and editing video for online. Kandel is a native of Southern California and graduated with a degree in communications from Cal State Fullerton. His first newspaper job was in Long Beach, CA, where he worked as a clerk and staff writer at the Long Beach Press-Telegram before becoming a correspondent at the Los Angeles Times in Orange County and then taking a job at the Daily News where he has specialized in crime and the Los Angeles Police Department. His work covering Eastern European organized crime caught the attention of the U.S. State Department who recruited him as part of a U.S. Speakers and Specialists grant program to talk to journalists in Albania and Colombia about how he covers crime in the United States. He became the paper's first online reporter last year. He enjoys hiking, mountain biking, traveling, and reading. Contact: 818-713-3635, jason.kandel@dailynews.com.

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