Julia Wick

Los Angeles, California · Editorial Director and Co-Founder, L.A. Material

Career

Julia Wick is editorial director and co-founder of L.A. Material. Before co-founding L.A. Material in 2026, she was a reporter at the Los Angeles Times and, before that, editor-in-chief of LAist, giving her direct experience of both the city's largest legacy newspaper and one of its principal public-radio-adjacent digital outlets — the two institutions whose contraction most visibly reshaped the Los Angeles journalism landscape in 2023 and 2024.

At the Los Angeles Times, Wick was part of the reporting team that won the 2023 Pulitzer Prize in Breaking News for coverage of a leaked audio recording that upended Los Angeles politics. The recording, made in 2021 and published in October 2022, captured three Los Angeles City Council members and a labor leader making racist remarks during a redistricting discussion. The reporting triggered the resignations of Council President Nury Martinez and two other council members and generated sustained national attention. Wick's role on that team connects her directly to the institutional story — L.A. City Hall politics and accountability — that sits at the centre of L.A. Material's editorial mission.

Before the Times, she served as editor-in-chief of LAist, the KPCC-affiliated digital news outlet that was, during her tenure, one of the more active local news operations in the city. LAist subsequently wound down its editorial operation, removing another layer of Los Angeles civic journalism capacity that L.A. Material was founded in part to address.

Prior Roles

L.A. Material

Editorial Director and Co-Founder (2026–present) · co-founded with Julia Turner, Sarah Wick, and Hayes Davenport

Los Angeles Times

Reporter (prior role) · part of team that won the 2023 Pulitzer Prize in Breaking News for coverage of the leaked L.A. City Council tape

LAist

Editor-in-Chief (prior role) · KPCC-affiliated digital news outlet covering Los Angeles

Recognition

2023

Pulitzer Prize — Breaking News Reporting

Awarded to the Los Angeles Times team, including Wick, for coverage of a leaked 2021 audio recording in which three L.A. City Council members and a labor leader made racist remarks during redistricting discussions. The reporting led to the resignations of Council President Nury Martinez and two other council members.

Julia Wick · Editorial Director and Co-Founder, L.A. Material

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