Libor Jany

Notable work and positions

Los Angeles Times - Reporter, Los Angeles Police Department
Star Tribune (Minneapolis) - Former Public Safety Reporter

Biography

Libor Jany covers the Los Angeles Police Department for the Los Angeles Times, which he joined in 2022. Born in Czechoslovakia, he grew up in St. Paul, Minnesota, and got his start in journalism as a sports agate clerk compiling high school box scores at his hometown paper, the St. Paul Pioneer Press. He studied communications with a minor in sociology at Mississippi State University, where he was a walk-on football player, and worked in newsrooms in Connecticut, New Jersey, California, and Mississippi before joining the Star Tribune in 2013. There he covered public safety for nearly a decade, anchoring the newsroom's coverage of the murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer and the city's role in the nationwide movement to remake policing that followed. That coverage was central to the reporting that won the Star Tribune the 2021 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News.

Career highlights

• 2021 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Star Tribune · For coverage of the murder of George Floyd, which Jany's reporting anchored.
• Public Safety Reporter, Star Tribune 2013-2022.
• LAPD Reporter, Los Angeles Times Since 2022.