Carl Greenberg (August 19, 1908 – November 4, 1984) was an American newspaper reporter who began as a police reporter; most of his career he was a reporter covering California and U.S. national politics. He worked for the Los Angeles Examiner until it closed in 1962; later he worked for the Los Angeles Times and became its political editor. Personal life Greenberg's parents were Yiddish- and Russian-speaking Jewish immigrants from Novogradvolynsk, today in Ukraine, who had emigrated in the 1890s to Boston, where he was born. The family, including Greenberg's younger brother, Herbert, moved in the 1920s from Boston to Venice, California. Greenberg graduated from Los Angeles High School in 1926 and subsequently attended the University of California, Los Angeles. He married Gladys Bilansky 12 July 1930 and had a son, Howard, born in 1935. Coincidentally, Bilansky's father had also emigrated from Novogradvolynsk. During World War II Carl served as a coxswain in the United States Coast Guard Reserve. He resided in Park La Brea during the late 1950s and early 1960s and in Culver City at the time of his retirement in 1973 until his death. He is entombed at Hillside Memorial Park Cemetery in Culver City. Professional life Greenberg was a reporter for the Los Angeles Evening Express 1926–1928, the City News Service of Los Angeles 1928–33, and for the Hearst paper, the Los Angeles Examiner 1933–1943, where he was promoted to political editor 1943–1962. After the Examiner folded he became a political writer for the Los Angeles Times from 1962 until his retirement in 1973; at the Times he also served as political editor 1966-1968 and as a member of the paper's editorial board from 1962 to 1968. He also served as disaster acting governor (in line of succession after the lieutenant governor) of California 1959–1967. He retired from his newspaper career at the Times in 1973. He received a number of awards for his reporting, including first prize for the best news story from the Southern California Newspaper Writers, Los Angeles chapter of Theta Sigma Phi in 1944; the Silver award from the California-Nevada Associated Press in 1957; and was a co-recipient of a Pulitzer Prize for general local reporting in 1966. Ethical stance and legacy In his early years covering Los Angeles politics, Greenberg was considered the Examiner'''s "political powerbroker inside Los Angeles City Hall." Greenberg was noted for his journalistic integrity as evidenced in