Mt. Shasta’s deadly disaster
Within hours, a perfect morning turned into one of the most hectic and gut-wrenching days on Mt. Shasta in recent memory.
Myung J. Chun has been a photographer with the Los Angeles Times since 1999. He started as a still photographer and then moved to videography from 2007 to 2018. Chun won an Emmy in 2011 for his work on a multimedia project about innocent victims of gang violence. He previously worked for the Los Angeles Daily News, a position he started in 1988 while attending Cal State Northridge.
Steve Saldivar is a former video journalist at the Los Angeles Times.
Robert Meeks is a former senior director of video for news, business and politics at the Los Angeles Times. A native Angeleno, Meeks cut his journalism teeth as a reporter for the Orange County Register, the Compton Bulletin and the Inglewood Tribune. He joined The Times in 2014 and was instrumental in some of the newsroom’s biggest stories, including breaking news video coverage of the San Bernardino shooting, which won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize. Meeks also assisted in the making of the podcast sensation “Dirty John.†His work has earned him three Los Angeles-area Emmy nominations, among other honors. Meeks is a graduate of Cal State Long Beach and an adjunct professor at USC. He makes it to Sunday dinner at his parents’ house in Los Angeles every weekend.