… Journalists Saturday. Padilla is editor of Column One, the Los Angeles Times front page story-telling showcase. Padilla began his career as a journalism major at ELAC, where he was editor-in-chief of Campus News, before transferring to USC, where he worked on the Daily Trojan. He spent a short time as a reporter with the San Diego … Union, then was an editor with Hispanic Link in Washington, D.C. before joining the L.A. Times 36 years ago. There he began as a night police reporter, but soon became an editor. A story he edited on a botched bank robbery in North Hollywood …