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Today, we’re starting with an announcement from The Times’s national desk editor, Marc Lacey, and Julie Bloom, the deputy editor who runs our California coverage:

We’re thrilled to announce that the veteran Times correspondent Manny Fernandez will become the next Los Angeles bureau chief.

Manny arrives in California after a stellar run in Texas. But he is no stranger to the Golden State.

He was born in Fresno. He had a summer internship at The Fresno Bee when he was in high school. His first journalism job was at the nearby Madera Tribune. He was a summer intern at The Wall Street Journal’s L.A. bureau when he was in college at Fresno State. He had one byline that summer, a profile of Crime Scene Steam & Clean. After graduating from college, he became a reporter for The San Francisco Chronicle.

“California is where my parents were born,” he noted. “It’s where I learned journalism. It’s where my college-era garage band, the Heroes, made a forgotten name for themselves. And it’s where my grandparents are buried.”