Jason Kandel

Managing Editor, Online

Awards

  • 2009: Los Angeles Press Club — Second place in hard news for “Metrolink, freight trains collide: At least 15 killed.”
  • 2008: California Newspaper Publishers Association — Second place for best Web site in the state
  • 2008: Los Angeles Press Club — Second place in online news for “Coverage of brush fires.”
  • 2008: Knight Digital Media Center Fellow
  • 2007: U.S. State Department Speaker and Specialist Program — Recruited to speak to journalists in Colombia about U.S. criminal justice and the press
  • 2006: U.S. State Department Speaker and Specialist Program — Recruited to speak to journalists in Albania about organized crime

Jason Kandel is the managing editor for online at Southern California Public Radio, responsible for the day-to-day operations of the Web site, helping set new media strategies, and coordinating news projects between radio and online. Before that, he was the online editor at the Web site of the Los Angeles Daily News.

There, he reported breaking news, directed breaking news coverage, wrote enterprise stories for online and print, posted blog entries to the crime blog, Mean Streets, and shot and edited video. Kandel is a native of Southern California and graduated with a degree in communications from Cal State Fullerton.

His first newspaper job was in Long Beach, Calif., where he worked as a clerk and staff writer at the Long Beach Press-Telegram before becoming a correspondent at the Los Angeles Times in Orange County and then taking a job at the Daily News where he specialized in crime and the Los Angeles Police Department.

His work covering Eastern European organized crime caught the attention of the U.S. State Department who recruited him as part of a U.S. Speakers and Specialists grant program to talk to journalists in Albania and Colombia about how he covers crime in the United States.

Recent Stories

Man arrested in San Jacinto home-invasion robbery Nov. 19, 2009
Orange County couple surrender in worker's comp fraud case Nov. 17, 2009
Colton woman sentenced to 5 years for real estate fraud Nov. 17, 2009
Teens sought in Koreatown burglaries Nov. 17, 2009
Venice man convicted in LAX officer's killing Nov. 17, 2009
Temecula boy arrested in fight that left boy unconscious Nov. 16, 2009
Gang member faces trial in violent Westminster home-invasion robbery Nov. 16, 2009
Bodies of woman, 6-year-old girl found in Perris home Nov. 15, 2009
DUI crackdown in Coachella Valley nets 5 arrests Nov. 14, 2009
'Person of interest' sought in shooting outside Sherman Oaks nightclub Nov. 13, 2009
EMT convicted in rape of female patient in Mission Viejo Nov. 13, 2009
Jury recommends death for Carson man convicted in murder of elderly couple Nov. 12, 2009
15-year-old boy killed in East Los Angeles Nov. 7, 2009
Garden Grove auto mechanic sentenced in sex assaults Nov. 7, 2009
Federal bust nets high-powered assault weapons from Bell Gardens gang Sept. 25, 2009