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Michael Anastasi is as California as a Californian can be.
One side of his family descends from Francisco Salvador Lugo, a Spanish soldier who helped to found the pueblo of Los Angeles in 1781 and whose son’s adobe is the oldest standing house in Los Angeles County. Another branch featured Italian fishermen who settled in the San Francisco Bay Area and worked alongside the father of Joe DiMaggio.
Anastasi grew up in Knights Landing, a majority-Latino town in the Sacramento Valley where “you grow up reading and writing, ‘L.A. sucks.’” He nevertheless attended Long Beach State, graduating with a journalism degree that led to a long career in Southern California.
That part of his life culminated in 2015, when he was executive editor of the Los Angeles News Group and the Torrance Daily Breeze won a Pulitzer Prize in local reporting for its coverage of the Centinela Valley Union High School District.
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