Staff

Kelly Hartog
Editor
Beverly Hills Community News Project
Email: kelly (at) bhcnp.org
Phone: 310-923-4558

A veteran journalist and editor with 15 years experience in the business, Kelly Hartog worked as an editor and reporter at The Jerusalem Post in Israel for ten years before moving to Los Angeles in 2004. She worked as a senior reporter for The Beverly Hills Courier for 18 months and as such has an excellent understanding of the ins-and-outs of this fascinating city. She's delighted to come on board as editor of the Beverly Hills Community News Project. The opportunity to be involved in a publication that is not governed by advertisers or interest groups, but rather is an open, honest voice for the people of Beverly Hills and the issues that affect them, is a rare one indeed. Kelly looks forward to bringing readers just the facts and providing an opportunity for residents to speak their minds and voice their concerns.

Jim Bursch
Executive Director
Westside Community News Project
Email: jimbursch (at) mymindshare.com
Phone: 310-869-5340

As someone who has been in and out of journalism over the last 15 years, Jim Bursch considers himself a semi-pro who is occasionally called up from the minor leagues to pinch hit in the big game. He started in community journalism when he founded NoHo Magazine in North Hollywood's NoHo Arts District in the early nineties. After the magazine folded and a brief foray in corporate communications, he joined the Ventura County Star as a copy editor in the late nineties, then went on to become an online news editor for the Los Angeles Daily News. He then left journalism to ride the dot-com bubble and enjoyed a front row seat to one of the more spectacular crashes of that era. After purchasing a home on the Westside he started WestLAonline.com, a news digest blog covering his neighborhood. In 2007 Jim returned to journalism with a brief stint as community news editor for Westside Today magazine. He is now heading up the Westside Community News Project and its commercial affiliate, the redesigned West LA Online. Jim is also president of MyMindshare, Inc.