Ochoa, Laurie

Award-w Laurie Ochoa is a beloved story editor known for her high standards and ability to encourage new and established writers to do their best work. During her eight years as editor in chief of the LA Weekly, she produced a literary city paper with highly regarded investigative, cultural and lifestyle coverage and led the paper to more national journalism awards than any other alternative newspaper in the country, including the Pulitzer Prize in 2007. From 1999 to 2001, she was the executive editor of Gourmet, where she and Ruth Reichl attracted a new generation of readers to the magazine,