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Lauren Gold

Santa Monica
As seen in: Cornell Chronicle, The Mercury News, Los Angeles Daily News, Asheville Citizen Times, Pasadena Star-News, Daily Breeze, San Gabriel Valley Tribune, Nanowerk LLC, The News-Herald (Willoughby, OH)
Covers:  pasadena, police, human interest, san gabriel, community events
Communications Manager @santamonicacity. Previous: @LBUtilities, @City_of_Anaheim, @SanGabrielCity; reporter @PasStarNews. @Willamette_U grad. Opinions=mine

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I am a multi-media journalist working for the Los Angeles News Group, a Digital First news organization in Southern California. I am skilled in and passionate about breaking news, in-depth investigative journalism, using my reporting to hold elected officials and public organizations accountable and social media and digitally driven journalism.

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Mission Impossible: Native San Gabriel Valley tribes seek U.S. recognition

Mission Impossible: Native San Gabriel Valley tribes seek U.S. recognition

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Treatment in transition: A look at the closure of Lanterman Developmental Center

Treatment in transition: A look at the closure of Lanterman Developmental Center

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Hanukkah finally gets a theme song, thanks to Maccabeats and Matisyahu

Hanukkah finally gets a theme song, thanks to Maccabeats and Matisyahu

During Hanukkah, Jewish family kitchens overflow with potato pancakes, jelly donuts and chocolate coins, and …

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The 710: Spine of LA Freeway system and its missing link

The 710: Spine of LA Freeway system and its missing link

Local transportation officials know it as "The Missing Link." A dotted line on Los Angeles area maps since at…

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Sober living house operators say Pasadena wants them out

Sober living house operators say Pasadena wants them out

Shortly after a suspected arson fire in an illegal boarding house on El Sereno Avenue killed two residents in…

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Cronut craze comes to Southern California

Cronut craze comes to Southern California

New Yorkers have been going crazy for them for months, standing in lines around the block to get them or buyi…

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Audio: Rosemead woman was reportedly sitting `calmly’ when man called for assistance

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By Lauren Gold
| San Gabriel Valley Tribune
Related Story: Coroner’s investigators report shows no Taser darts in body of woman killed in Rosemead shooting ROSEMEAD – A woman who was shot to death by sheriff’s deputies appeared to be sitting “very calmly” in the lobby of a mental health clinic moments before her death, according to audio from a call for assistance released Tuesday. Jazmyne Ha Eng, 40, did have a ball-peen hammer in her lap, the caller, an unidentified male, told sheriff’s deputies during the Jan. 4. call for help.
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Family of Rosemead woman killed by deputies claim shooting was ‘unprovoked and malicious’

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By Lauren Gold
| San Gabriel Valley Tribune
Attorneys for the family of a schizophrenic woman shot and killed by Los Angeles County Sheriff’s deputies in January 2012 attended a mandatory mediation meeting Friday to discuss a lawsuit that names the Sheriff’s Department and the clinic where she was shot as defendants.
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County approves $1.8 million settlement in shooting of mentally ill Rosemead woman

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By Lauren Gold
| Pasadena Star-News
LOS ANGELES>> The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors Tuesday approved a $1.8 million settlement in a pair of lawsuits filed by the family of a schizophrenic woman who was shot and killed at a mental health clinic by Sheriff’s deputies. Jazmyne Ha Eng, 40, of Rosemead, was fatally shot in January 2012 in the lobby of Pacific Clinic’s Asian Pacific Family Center in Rosemead, where she was a patient.
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What was your first job as a journalist?

Aside from my work in high school and college, my first real job as a journalist was an internship with the Statesman Journal in Salem, OR.

Have you ever used a typewriter?

Yes. I learned to type on one, in fact (but I'm pretty sure that's just because our school got them for free).

How is social media changing news?

Social media has become essential for spreading news to the public as well as reporting and curating it.

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