By Mondo Times editors
Boulder, Colorado USA
Posted on October 19, 2009 at 3:24pm

Some background about the editorial leaders at Los Angeles magazine

-- Editor-in-Chief Mary Melton started at Los Angeles magazine as a senior editor in 2000, became executive editor in 2002, and editor in 2009. She has overseen the magazine’s theme issues, edited features and service stories, written personality profiles and popular culture pieces, and directed the launch of the magazine’s website. Prior to her position at Los Angeles, Melton was an editor and writer from 1995 until 2000 at the Los Angeles Times Magazine. She began her journalism career as an intern at — and later Managing Editor of — LA Weekly. A fourth-generation Angeleno and a graduate of Hollywood HIgh School, Melton holds a degree in history from UCLA.

Executive Editor Matthew Segal was formerly managing editor of Buzz Weekly and senior editor of Men’s Fitness magazine. He has written for Outside, GQ, and Details, among other publications.

Managing Editor Ann Herold worked for the Los Angeles Times from 1983 to 2007, and was managing editor of the Times’ Sunday magazine for 16 years. The Santa Barbara native has written extensively on her hometown and on homes and gardens, food, travel, and sports, and won a James Beard Foundation Award for a piece that appeared in Saveur magazine. She is also a senior lecturer in journalism at the University of Southern California.

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