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Justin Chang, Leading Film Critic, Leaves Los Angeles Times For The New Yorker


One of the nation’s top film critics, Justin Chang, is leaving the beleaguered Los Angeles Times, taking his fluid prose and winning personality to The New Yorker. Chang previously worked for years…

He ticked off key points of Chang’s impressive bio — “named film critic of the year at the Los Angeles Press Club’s National Arts and Entertainment Awards. Chang’s arrival will free up longtime New Yorker critic Anthony Lane to broaden his coverage to essays and reported features. The Los Angeles Times has been through a nasty month as the editor resigned and journalists waged the first labor walkout in the paper’s 142-year history to protest looming widespread layoffs.

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