• by Ray Schultz , August 24, 2025

The Los Angeles Times has promoted Philip Gray to the post of op-ed editor. 

Gray, who joined the Times in 2021 as deputy op-ed editor, will oversee production of the paper’s Opinion Voices section, including Opinion columnists, contributor essays and letters to the editor.

Prior to joining the Times, Gray worked at Bloomberg and The New York Times as an opinion and news editor, and has also served as an editor at The Washington Post and The Wichita Eagle.

His new job has its challenges, given the bias meter introduced several months ago. 

The new tool, Insights, is designed to “identify where the views expressed may fall in the political spectrum,” owner Patrick Soon-Shiong wrote in a letter to readers. Specifically, it analyzes Voices content, which includes “anything written “from a personal perspective,” Soon-Shiong added.