Jim Bates
Jim joined Sitrick And Company after serving for 22 years as an editor and reporter at the Los Angeles Times, most recently Deputy Entertainment Editor in the Business section. As the paper’s banking specialist in the late 1980s and early 1990s, Mr. Bates chronicled the nation’s savings and loan debacle, the creation of the Resolution Trust Corp. and the wave of banking mergers. As an entertainment reporter and editor, he covered virtually every aspect of Hollywood, including breaking with colleague Shawn Hubler the story of madam Heidi Fleiss. Mr. Bates also wrote a business humor column for the newspaper, an awards season column and provided daily entertainment business updates for radio station KFWB. He was as part of the reporting staff that won Pulitzer Prizes for the paper’s coverage of the Los Angeles riots and the Northridge earthquake. Mr. He has received awards from the Associated Press Sports Editors, the California Newspaper Publishers Assn., the Greater Los Angeles Press Club. Bates attended the University of Illinois and the University of California-Irvine, where he earned a bachelor’s in Social Ecology. He has a master’s in journalism from the University of Missouri.