Word: chandler
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Despite his place in the family dynasty, Otis Chandler learned the business from the bottom up. After he returned from the Korean War, his hard-driving mother, Buff Chandler, now 78 and still the grande dame of the Los Angeles cultural establishment, gave him one weekend off, then started him on a seven-year grind that took him from the mail room to the city room. Chandler is quick to deny any implication that he is his mother's masterpiece: "Her influence on the paper since I've been publisher has not been significant...
...Chandler has approached both work and play with that same drive to prove himself. A big-game hunter who says his sport has taken him to "all the high mountains of the world," Chandler is also a motorcycle enthusiast, weight lifter and former Stanford University shotputter who made the Olympic team in 1952. Tall, tanned and blond, Chandler describes himself as "the world's oldest surfer" and regales visitors with tales of riding 12-ft. waves. He owns a $4 million fleet of competition cars and antique autos and is, along with Friend Paul Newman, one of the oldest...
Employees sometimes mock his youthful vigor ("Here comes Otis dribbling his shotput through the newsroom"). But they generally respect his hands-off policy. When Chandler asked for an advance look at Times Media Reporter David Shaw's 1976 story on the newspaper business, Shaw questioned the propriety of Chandler's request and the publisher backed down...
Times staffers have good reason to like Chandler; during his years as publisher, the Times has grown from a paper with only one foreign correspondent to one with 19 overseas bureaus and eleven in the U.S. The once tiny Washington office is now staffed by 26 correspondents, one of the largest crews in the capital...
...page before concluding. "You don't read the Los Angeles Times," jokes a subscriber. "You weigh it." Yet the Times has become known as a writers' paper, running well-researched stories averaging 2,000 words daily. "No one else is doing that kind of newspaper journalism," boasts Chandler. "It's analogous to a daily newsmagazine...