Robert Lopez
@lajourno.bsky.social
Independent Investigative Journalist and fellow at the McGraw Center for Business Journalism at @newmarkjplus.bsky.social, City University of New York
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Robert Lopez
@lajourno.bsky.social
· Nov 21
I’m a fellow at the McGraw Center for Business Journalism and am investigating California’s agricultural industry. I was part of a team of L.A. Times reporters awarded a Pulitzer Prize for public service in 2011 and was a Pulitzer finalist with several L.A. Times reporters in 2023.
Very pleased with the layout of my investigation in today’s print edition
Read the story here
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Read the story here
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November 23, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Very pleased with the layout of my investigation in today’s print edition
Read the story here
www.latimes.com/california/s...
Read the story here
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This investigation by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Robert J. Lopez is based on interviews with 100+ underage and adult farmworkers, experts, labor and agricultural industry advocates and state and local officials. Read the investigation here.
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California’s Child Farmworkers: Exhausted, Underpaid and Toiling in Toxic Fields
State officials are failing to protect the health and safety of thousands of young field laborers, an investigation has found.
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November 21, 2025 at 9:08 PM
This investigation by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Robert J. Lopez is based on interviews with 100+ underage and adult farmworkers, experts, labor and agricultural industry advocates and state and local officials. Read the investigation here.
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Here's the sidebar to my investigation of child labor in California's $61-billion Ag industry. More than two dozen minors and parents told me they worked in fields that reeked of chemicals. Enforcement records showed statewide breakdowns.
www.latimes.com/california/s...
www.latimes.com/california/s...
Lax oversight, few inspections leave child farmworkers exposed to toxic pesticides
Child laborers and other farmworkers in California are being exposed to toxic pesticides, in part because of splintered enforcement of safety regulations.
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November 21, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Here's the sidebar to my investigation of child labor in California's $61-billion Ag industry. More than two dozen minors and parents told me they worked in fields that reeked of chemicals. Enforcement records showed statewide breakdowns.
www.latimes.com/california/s...
www.latimes.com/california/s...
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What an incredible piece of reporting from my former colleague @lajourno.bsky.social, who spent months reporting how the state has under-investigated children working in harsh conditions in fields across California. Spend the time to read and hear from the children.
www.latimes.com/california/s...
www.latimes.com/california/s...
California's child farmworkers: Exhausted, underpaid and toiling in toxic fields
State officials are failing to protect the health and safety of thousands of young field laborers, an investigation has found.
www.latimes.com
November 20, 2025 at 8:50 PM
What an incredible piece of reporting from my former colleague @lajourno.bsky.social, who spent months reporting how the state has under-investigated children working in harsh conditions in fields across California. Spend the time to read and hear from the children.
www.latimes.com/california/s...
www.latimes.com/california/s...
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"It feels less like incidental inclusion and more like large-scale extraction of intellectual property without consent.” www.niemanlab.org/2025/10/hund...
Hundreds of thousands of videos from news publishers like The New York Times and Vox were used to train AI models
YouTube channels from major news publishers and creators were in video data sets used by Microsoft, Meta, Snap, Runway AI, and Bytedance.
www.niemanlab.org
November 2, 2025 at 9:16 PM
"It feels less like incidental inclusion and more like large-scale extraction of intellectual property without consent.” www.niemanlab.org/2025/10/hund...
This didn’t take long—first glossy mailer for California redistricting battle came yesterday.
August 26, 2025 at 4:36 PM
This didn’t take long—first glossy mailer for California redistricting battle came yesterday.
The Basque chorizos and other dishes at Ansots in Boise are insane.
#jaialdi2025
#jaialdi2025
August 3, 2025 at 2:36 AM
The Basque chorizos and other dishes at Ansots in Boise are insane.
#jaialdi2025
#jaialdi2025
I love the paella at the Basque Market in Boise.
#jaialdi2025
#jaialdi2025
August 1, 2025 at 5:26 PM
I love the paella at the Basque Market in Boise.
#jaialdi2025
#jaialdi2025
August 1, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Attacks against the media in L.A—disturbing and powerful
In 2021, I made a slideshow based on 50+ incidents of police misconduct toward journalists. It covered all California over a 12 month period. The legislature responded with new laws to protect press.
I just made a new one. It's bigger. It's worse. And it's just one week in Los Angeles.
I just made a new one. It's bigger. It's worse. And it's just one week in Los Angeles.
Police Treatment Of Journalists In LA, June 2025
WARNING: DISTURBING IMAGES AND VIDEO Photo of LAPD skirmish line brandishing “less lethal” munitions. Courtesy Ringo Chiu.
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June 16, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Attacks against the media in L.A—disturbing and powerful
Being a journalist in LA is a “dangerous profession,” alleges a lawsuit by @lapressclub.bsky.social against LAPD in response to attacks against media in recent protests.
#journalism
#journalism
June 16, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Being a journalist in LA is a “dangerous profession,” alleges a lawsuit by @lapressclub.bsky.social against LAPD in response to attacks against media in recent protests.
#journalism
#journalism
Reposted by Robert Lopez
The deployment of federal agencies to LA may be getting the headlines, but many of the most serious abuses have come from local police.
We helped lead a letter to the LAPD and LASD reminding them of journalists' rights and the liability they're risking: media.freedom.press/media/docume...
We helped lead a letter to the LAPD and LASD reminding them of journalists' rights and the liability they're risking: media.freedom.press/media/docume...
June 11, 2025 at 7:36 PM
The deployment of federal agencies to LA may be getting the headlines, but many of the most serious abuses have come from local police.
We helped lead a letter to the LAPD and LASD reminding them of journalists' rights and the liability they're risking: media.freedom.press/media/docume...
We helped lead a letter to the LAPD and LASD reminding them of journalists' rights and the liability they're risking: media.freedom.press/media/docume...
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Pass it on
April 23, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Pass it on
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🎙️ "Good journalism often emerges from the convergence of disagreement and befuddlement."
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-weekend-essay/an-academics-journey-toward-reporting
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-weekend-essay/an-academics-journey-toward-reporting
An Academic’s Journey Toward Reporting
I was used to a disembodied way of working: identify a philosophical problem, then study it. What could spending time with a philosopher teach me about his ideas?
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February 16, 2025 at 6:58 PM
🎙️ "Good journalism often emerges from the convergence of disagreement and befuddlement."
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-weekend-essay/an-academics-journey-toward-reporting
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-weekend-essay/an-academics-journey-toward-reporting
Hey @washingtonpost.com, I wanted to support you but enough is enough. I just canceled my subscription.
January 8, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Hey @washingtonpost.com, I wanted to support you but enough is enough. I just canceled my subscription.
January 6, 2025 at 7:13 PM
@carlivelocci.com Hello, I just joined this platform. Can you add me to the journalism feed?
December 15, 2024 at 2:56 PM
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This is a fitting tribute to one of the best L.A. City Hall reporters I’ve seen in my many years covering local politics.
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Remembering the Sage of Los Angeles City Hall
Journalist Marc Haefele was one of the keenest analysts of Los Angeles politics. Capital & Main columnist Erin Aubry Kaplan knew him as a colleague who could write authoritatively on practically every...
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December 14, 2024 at 12:06 AM
This is a fitting tribute to one of the best L.A. City Hall reporters I’ve seen in my many years covering local politics.
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Sun sets over the Santa Monica Bay
December 12, 2024 at 1:36 AM
Sun sets over the Santa Monica Bay