Jill Stewart is a well-known Los Angeles print, digital, radio and television journalist and is the managing editor of LA Weekly and laweekly.com, the nation's largest alternative weekly newspaper. At LA Weekly, she oversees a team of print and digital journalists who pursue the newspaper's brand of digital hyper-localism and analytical, tough-minded print journalism.
Before joining LA Weekly in 2006, she was West Coast editor of Pajamas Media, where she oversaw a team dedicated to bringing more than 200 national and international political bloggers representing views from left, right and center under a common umbrella at a single web site. Her key role at pajamasmedia.com involved one of the earliest large-scale efforts to assure that bloggers got paid for their content.
Before that, as an analyst of politics and government, she wrote a self-syndicated column for four years that probed and often skewered the California legislature, governor and Sacramento power players. Dubbed “Capitol Punishment,” her column appeared regularly in the San Francisco Chronicle, Orange County Register, LA Daily News, Long Beach Press-Telegram and many other papers, reaching an audience of about 1 million.
She is a longtime, occasional op-ed contributor to The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal.
Jill Stewart is an experienced television broadcaster, providing regular live political analysis for KCET Public TV during the 2013 L.A. mayoral race; KTTV Fox 11 during the 2010 California gubernatorial race, and KCAL 9 during the 2005 L.A. mayoral race. She has appeared live extensively on national TV, analyzing national and California issues for FOX, CNN, MSNBC, The Dennis Miller Show and Politically Incorrect with Bill Maher.
Her ongoing radio work includes hundreds of appearances as guest or host on BBC Radio, KNX Newsradio, TalkRadio KABC, KFI AM 640, KPCC Public Radio, KCRW and KGO Newstalk.
In the 1990s, Jill wrote a national award-winning column for New Times Los Angeles that dissected, often with glee, the civic, business and educational institutions that shape California, and she penned the Power Brokers column for Buzz magazine. She also worked for more than six years as a Metro reporter for the Los Angeles Times, where she covered local government, poverty, affordable housing and urban issues.
From 1991 to 1992, she lived in Prague and wrote about Czechoslovakia's transition to democracy for Editor & Publisher and others.
Jill Stewart has twice been named top columnist in Los Angeles at the Southern California Journalism Awards, and has been honored with its Journalist of the Year nod. Her national honors include the American Society of Newspaper Columnists' award for best column in the U.S., and the Benjamin Fine Award for top education writing in the nation.
Jill Stewart holds a master’s degree in journalism from Stanford University.
