How L.A. Taco Filled a Gap in Los Angeles’ Media Landscape
The staff of L.A. Taco (image courtesy of outlet)
L.A. Taco Editor in Chief Javier Cabral will never forget the Friday in June when he watched a protester get run over by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement SUV in downtown Los Angeles, live on local news station KTLA. “I was frustrated because I couldn’t get my investigative reporter on the phone,” said Cabral, who realized then that his city was experiencing something he had never witnessed before. Turns out his reporter was already at the protest and captured an angle of the hit-and-run incident no one else had. They put together an Instagram post featuring the footage, with a corresponding written report, and posted it that same night. Because of their timely coverage of the incident, story tips began to pour in.
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