Mariel Garza, the top editorial page editor at the Los Angeles Times, quit after the newspaper¡¯s owner blocked a planned endorsement of Kamala Harris for president.

The editorial board had planned to endorse Harris but was stopped by Patrick Soon-Shiong, the billionaire biotech magnate who bought the newspaper in 2018, Garza said an interview with the Columbia Journalism Review.

¡°I am resigning because I want to make it clear that I am not okay with us being silent,¡± Garza said. ¡°In dangerous times, honest people need to stand up. This is how I¡¯m standing up.¡±

The Times came out with a list of endorsements in other races and ballot measures this month but didn¡¯t include one for president.

¡°We had written so many ¡®Trump is unfit¡¯ editorials that it was as if we had endorsed her,¡± Garza wrote in her resignation letter. ¡°But the reality hit me like cold water Tuesday when the news rippled out about the decision not to endorse without so much as a comment from the LAT management, and Donald Trump turned it into an anti-Harris rip.¡±

Garza couldn¡¯t be reached for comment. Earlier in the day, a spokesperson for the Times said the newspaper wouldn¡¯t comment on internal discussions or decisions about editorials or endorsements.

In a post on X, Soon-Shiong said the editorial board was ¡°provided the opportunity to draft a factual analysis of all the positive and negative policies by each candidate during their tenures at the White House, and how these policies affected the nation.¡±

That would allow readers to decide ¡°who would be worthy of being president for the next four years,¡± he said. ¡°Instead of adopting this path as suggested, the editorial board chose to remain silent and I accepted their decision.¡±

The website Semafor first reported on Tuesday that the Times wouldn¡¯t endorse for president for the first time since it backed Barack Obama in 2008. The article said the decision was made by Soon-Shiong.