Grant Slater Photo/ Video Editor
Grant Slater is the photo and video editor for KPCC, where he oversees the photo and video elements of KPCC.org's news coverage. Since joining the station in March 2011, Grant has produced special reports on Arab communities in the Southland, veterans issues and a host of other topics. He also maintains visual standards for KPCC's growing multimedia operation.
Slater holds bachelor's degrees in Russian and journalism from the University of Oklahoma and a Master's Degree in Journalism from Northwestern University. Prior to joining KPCC, he reported from the Middle East and the former Soviet Union as the Moscow bureau chief for the Jewish Telegraphic Agency.
Slater's work has appeared in The Associated Press, Agence France-Press, Global Post, The New York Post, The St. Louis Post-Dispatch and other publications. He is the recipient of awards for journalism from the Society of Professional Journalists, the White House Correspondents' Association and the VII Photo Agency, among others.
Stories by Grant Slater
Time lapse: Solar eclipse in LA
By Grant Slater | KPCC
A timelapse of the annular solar eclipse from May 20, 2012 in Los Angeles.
Demonstrations begin against Gov. Brown's revised budget
By Grant Slater
A downtown L.A. protest began only hours after Gov. Brown revealed millions in cuts to social services as a part of his revised May budget.
'The LA Riot' works for change with police, youth
By Grant Slater
"The L.A. Riot" is the moniker of a 56 year-old boxer, conflict mediator and trainer Lloyd Wilkey. His life was changed by the events that engulfed Los Angeles in 1992.
A different kind of riot
By Grant Slater | KPCC
Most Angelenos would like to forget the 1992 riots. Activist Lloyd Wilkey has embraced them.
Save the public radio species
By Mae Ryan and Grant Slater | KPCC
The most cerebral specimen of the modern journalist is in grave peril. The public radio journalist needs your support to continue its serene and bias-free existence.
The LACMA Rock Rolls
By Grant Slater | KPCC
A 340-ton boulder headed toward LACMA made an overnight stop in Long Beach where a horde of fans greeted it.
LA croc hunter explores reptiles' heritage and her own
By Julie Platner
Marisa Tellez is breaking new ground in the study of crocodilian immune systems and learning about her own heritage along the way.
Video: A New York artist sounds car horns in LA traffic
By Grant Slater
A car horn is designed to inspire alarm, panic, fear of imminent death. So what kind of person hears a honk and thinks of a symphony?
The Car-Horn Concertmaster
By Grant Slater | KPCC
Zefrey Throwell composed a symphony in five parts for 1,000 car horns and passed them out to motorist musicians across the city to play in traffic, in parking lots and from the mountaintops...
105 and Holy Sanctified
By Grant Slater | KPCC
Poppa Si is one of LA's oldest residents, a fiercely independent centenarian with a fondness for scotch whiskey and the Lakers.
Archaeologists dig into San Gabriel's past
By Grant Slater
An excavation near the San Gabriel Mission has uncovered remnants of one of Los Angeles’ most important early cultural centers.
Rise of the 'Tubers
By Grant Slater | KPCC
Maker Studios in Culver City is the closest thing the world has to a viral video factory. The upstart studio produces content solely for YouTube and racks up hundreds of millions of...
Maker Studios is all about YouTube
By Shereen Marisol Meraji with Grant Slater | The Madeleine Brand Show
In just two and a half years, Maker Studios has gone from a handful of employees to 160 full-time staffers and 40 part-timers, all by making videos for YouTube.
From Flowers to Floats
By Grant Slater | KPCC
Preparing Rose Parade floats for the big day is a monumental undertaking. At Fiesta Parade Floats, there are 11 flower-laden monsters waiting to make their way down Colorado Boulevard...
Pony-tailed arson suspect detained by police has Canadian license plates but is German
By KPCC Wire Services and Grant Slater | KPCC & wires
Police say they have arrested a "person of interest" in a string of fires that continued into Monday morning with 12 new blazes across Hollywood and the San Fernando Valley.
