Jim Newton

Jim Newton, a longtime editor reporter, editor, columnist, bureau chief and editorial page editor of the Los Angeles Times, now teaches at UCLA and edits Blueprint magazine. He is the author of three critically acclaimed biographies -- of Earl Warren, Dwight Eisenhower and Jerry Brown -- and collaborator with Leon Panetta on the former CIA director and Secretary of Defense's memoir. His forthcoming biography of Jerry Garcia -- which also will look at the lasting influences of the 1960s counterculture -- will be published by Random House in 2025.