Get the inside scoop on how our local media navigates the new world of media. Camillia Lanham - Editor New Times SLO and the Sun Santa Maria - will be our guide.

Camillia Lanham has been the editor of the Sun in Santa Maria and New Times in San Luis Obispo since 2015. She started her journalism career in Montana after earning a bachelor's degree from the University of Montana School of Journalism. She reported for the Hungry Horse News in Columbia Falls, Montana, and the Big Fork Eagle in Big Fork, Montana, before moving to the Central Coast to work as a staff writer for the Sun in 2013. Camillia earned a master's degree in public policy from Cal Poly in 2020 and has won awards from both state and national organizations for government, enterprise, environmental, and agricultural reporting. She teaches journalism ethics and news reporting at Cal Poly and is a true believer in local journalism’s ability to empower communities to participate in democracy and advocate for themselves. Her free time is spent outdoors, where she loves to camp, hike, and backpack, or in the kitchen, where she loves to cook.