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    Billionaire Patrick Soon-Shiong reaches deal to buy LA Times

    by Meg James and James Rufus Koren, Los Angeles Times Feb 08, 2018 6 minutes

    LOS ANGELES - For more than a century, one family owned the Los Angeles Times and used the newspaper to build great wealth and exert political influence over how the city would take shape.

    But over the years, the Chandler family - descendants of hard-charging Civil War veteran Gen. Harrison Gray Otis, who bought the paper in 1884 - became increasingly fractured and disenchanted with the newspaper business. In 2000, they sold Times Mirror Co. to Chicago-based Tribune Co., thrusting it into a protracted, 18-year battle with its out-of-town owners.

    On Wednesday, the Times' corporate parent, Tronc, announced that it had reached a deal to sell the Times, the San Diego Union-Tribune, community newspapers and Spanish-language Hoy to L.A. biotech billionaire Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong. His investment firm, Nant Capital, agreed to pay $500 million for the Southern California papers and will assume $90 million in pension liabilities.

    The sale will bring a return to local ownership and possibly some stability

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