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Tim Rutten is an American journalist who worked for the Los Angeles Times between 1971 and 2011.
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He started at the paper as a copy editor in the View section. Before becoming a columnist for the Calendar section in 2002, he held a number of positions, including city bureau chief and editorial writer. He was laid off in a staff cutback in 2011.
A native of San Bernardino, California, he majored in political science at California State University, Los Angeles.
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Rutten won a 1991 award from the Greater Los Angeles Press Club for editorial writing. He wrote about the 1994 Northridge earthquake, which won him a share of a 1995 Pulitzer Prize awarded to the staff of the Times for Breaking News Reporting. In 2007, he was honored by the Anti-Defamation League for advancing the ideals of the First Amendment.