Jim Braun, copy editor
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Jim Braun is a member of the copy desk and - depending on the day of the week - either designs the front page, designs the Local section or edits stories and writes headlines as a copy editor. And sometimes he pinch-hits as the wire editor. Speaking of pinch hitting, Jim spent the majority of his 23-year career at The Californian in the sports department. In sports, he also was a copy editor, page designer and reporter. In addition to general assignment work, he was the paper's beat reporter for the NFL's Los Angeles Raiders for 12 years and Los Angeles Rams for nine years, and also covered college football, major league baseball, and was The Californian's reporter/columnist at the 1994 World Cup.
Jim is a native of Chicago ("Shi-CAW-go" - there, does that prove he's a native?), and is a lifelong White Sox fan even though he grew up in the northern suburbs, closer to Wrigley Field where that other Chicago team plays. Before heading west, Jim was a staff writer and sports editor at Lerner Newspapers (later Pulitzer Newspapers), a weekly and bi-weekly group of papers where he was a page designer, copy editor, reporter and columnist.
Jim is a graduate of Southern Illinois University-Carbondale, so he can happily explain to anyone what a Saluki is. On the night of his 21st birthday, he was in Ames, Iowa, of all places covering the Salukis when they captured the NCAA championship in men's gymnastics. He also has an M.B.A. degree from Cal State Bakersfield.
