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Otis Chandler

American newspaper publisher

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 31, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

Otis Chandler was the publisher of the Los Angeles Times between 1960 and 1980, leading a large expansion of the newspaper and its ambitions. He was the fourth and final member of the Chandler family to hold the paper's top position.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Otis Chandler” is american newspaper publisher. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Otis, Chandler and American, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1960, 1980—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Otis, Chandler and American is the immediate research focus.
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Evidence profile

Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 31, 2026. The first chronological checks are 1960 and 1980.

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This entry incorporates text from “Otis Chandler” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.