Tina Susman
Tina Susman, an Oakland native, is a former New York-based national correspondent who joined the Los Angeles Times as Baghdad bureau chief in January 2007. She got her start as a foreign correspondent with the Associated Press in South Africa, covering the end of apartheid and the election of Nelson Mandela. Dubbed by past editors “the master of disaster,” she has also worked in west Africa and done stints in Europe, Asia and Haiti. She is thrilled to now be in a city with quirky features, non-stop news, and functioning phones and electricity. She left The Times in 2015.
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Nov. 23, 2020
Preservationists, a developer and the city are at odds over revitalization.
April 5, 2019
After prison guards assaulted an Iraqi woman, she turned to her brother for help. But he -- and society -- failed her.
March 20, 2019
From fountains to sports teams, monuments to islands, the names that reflect this country’s troubled history have come under scrutiny from activists who want to replace them with labels that do not honor racists or promote ethnic stereotypes.
Nov. 20, 2015
When a Brooklyn man pleaded guilty to plotting to join Islamic State and to bomb Coney Island, it drew little attention outside of New York City despite the spectacular image his confession conjured of a fiery blast ripping through a seaside amusement park.
Nov. 19, 2015
Los fraudes psíquicos no son nada nuevo en Nueva York, donde los establecimientos de videntes y adivinos son casi tan comunes como los Starbucks, pero pocas son tan llamativos como el que estafó los ahorros de su vida a un joven que vive en Los Ángeles.
Nov. 19, 2015
Psychic scams are nothing new to New York, where fortune-tellers’ storefronts are nearly as ubiquitous as Starbucks, but few are as attention-grabbing as the one that conned a young man now living in Los Angeles out of his life savings.
Nov. 18, 2015
It’s hard to stand out in a city like this, with its abundance of wealth and poverty, beauty and brutality.
Nov. 17, 2015
It took nine years after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks for Congress to guarantee healthcare for the firefighters, police officers, chaplains and others who fell ill as a result of toiling in the dusty ruins of ground zero.
Nov. 13, 2015