{"id":411003,"date":"2026-07-24T17:45:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T17:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/411003\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T17:45:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T17:45:08","slug":"benjamin-royer-san-diego-union-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/411003\/","title":{"rendered":"Benjamin Royer \u2013 San Diego Union-Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t\tBenjamin Royer covers the Los Angeles Lakers for the Southern California News Group. He\u2019s a lifelong Angeleno and is no stranger to Los Angeles\u2019 robust sports landscape. Royer previously reported on UCLA and college sports for SCNG and covered the Dodgers, Chargers and prep sports for the Los Angeles Times. He also has worked as a stringer for The New York Times.<br \/>\nRoyer is a UCLA graduate and served as USC Annenberg\u2019s Selden Ring Investigative Journalism Fellow, where he also received a master\u2019s degree in specialized journalism.<br \/>\nIn his spare time, you can see Royer at The Apple Pan on Pico boulevard feasting on a hickory burger and a slice of banana cream pie, or watching the latest film release in a movie theater.\n\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Benjamin Royer covers the Los Angeles Lakers for the Southern California News Group. He\u2019s a lifelong Angeleno and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":60026,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[48,52,51,47,50,49],"class_list":["post-411003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=411003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411003\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=411003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=411003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=411003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}