Meet Nika Soon-Shiong, daughter of the LA Times’ billionaire owner: she claimed to be involved in the newspaper’s decision not to endorse Kamala Harris, but her father disagrees
A polyglot, social activist, and PhD candidate at the University of Oxford, Soon-Shiong has been accused on multiple occasions of meddling with the newspaper’s editorial freedom
The doctor’s daughter, Nika Soon-Shiong, told The New York Times that the non-endorsement was a “joint decision” taken by her family in response to the war in Gaza. “As a citizen of a country openly financing genocide, and as a family that experienced South African apartheid, the endorsement was an opportunity to repudiate justifications for the widespread targeting of journalists and ongoing war on children,” she elaborated.
Nika also said that it was the “first and only time” she had been involved in the process. The claim was quickly contested by her father, who asserted that the 31-year-old had had no say in the matter.
According to Forbes, Nika has been accused of meddling with the LA Times’ editorial team on multiple occasions.
So just who is Nika Soon-Shiong?
She grew up rich
Her educational qualifications
Nika graduated from Stanford with a bachelor’s in international relations and a master’s in African studies. She has been a PhD candidate at Oxford since 2019. Per her bio on the Fund for Guaranteed Income website, Nika can speak Spanish, Italian, Xhosa and Hindi.