Otis Chandler, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Otis Chandler

American newspaper publisher

Date of Birth: 23-Nov-1927

Place of Birth: Los Angeles, California, United States

Date of Death: 27-Feb-2006

Profession: businessperson, publisher, athletics competitor

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Otis Chandler (November 23, 1927 – February 27, 2006) 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.Chandler made improvement of the paper's quality a top priority, succeeding in raising the product's reputation, as well as its profit margins.
"No publisher in America improved a paper so quickly on so grand a scale, took a paper that was marginal in qualities and brought it to excellence as Otis Chandler did," journalist David Halberstam wrote in his history of the company.