With a constantly changing media market in Southern California, Tom Johnson continues to play a key role in journalism shaping Orange County coverage.
Johnson has more than 45 years of experience in the industry spanning multiple outlets, including the Daily Pilot, now published by the Los Angeles Times.
However, when he first moved to Orange County in 1991 to work for the Daily Pilot, he thought he had made the “biggest mistake of [his] life.”
At the time, Johnson was a single parent who didn’t know anyone else in town, while the paper was also down on its luck due to financial strain….