Michael A Hiltzik was born on November 9,1952 and is an American columnist, reporter and author who has written extensively for the Los Angeles Times.
10 Facts About Michael Hiltzik
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Michael Hiltzik won two Gerald Loeb Awards for Distinguished Business and Financial Journalism.
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Michael Hiltzik won Silver Gavel award from the American Bar Association and the Overseas Press Club cited his reporting on East African issues.
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In 2004, Michael Hiltzik won a Gerald Loeb Award for Commentary.
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In 2006, Michael Hiltzik was suspended without pay from the LA Times for sockpuppeting on his blog "The Golden State".
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Michael Hiltzik admitted to posting under false names on multiple sites, using the pseudonym "Mikekoshi" to criticize commentators Hugh Hewitt and Patrick Frey.
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In December 2009, the LA Times announced that Michael Hiltzik would be returning to the paper as a business columnist.
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Michael Hiltzik was criticized for a January 10,2022 column, where he encouraged public humiliation of unvaccinated people who died from COVID-19.
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Michael Hiltzik said, "mockery is not necessarily the wrong reaction to those who publicly mocked anti-COVID measures and encourage others to follow suit, before they perished of the disease the dangers of which they belittled".
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Michael Hiltzik has been interviewed about internet privacy matters on talk radio shows such as the Norman Goldman Show.