After receiving his master ’s , he joined '' The Wall Street Journal '' Pittsburgh bureau in 1971 . In 1974 , he moved to the '' Journal '' Los Angeles bureau , taking over coverage of aerospace and defense and writing about airlines , among other topics . Prior to the 1984 Summer Olympic Games in Los Angeles he was the '' Journal '' reporter assigned to cover the business of the Olympics in Southern California . His aviation stories covered such topics as the development of classified stealth aircraft and air safety . From 1988 to 1994 , he was deputy chief of the '' Journal '' ’s 14-member Los Angeles bureau , helping to manage coverage of such events as rioting after the 1992 police beating of the motorist Rodney King and the 1994 Northridge earthquake
1994 Northridge earthquake
1994 Northridge earthquake
Roy J. Harris Jr.