• Norma ZagerNeighbor

  • Hermosa Beach, CA

         Award-winning journalist Norma Zager returned to journalism after a 14-year stint as a stand up comic, playing Vegas regularly and opening for the biggest names in laughter. She created Norma's 14 Karat Cookies to support herself and her children after moving to Los Angeles and was the first comedian to have her own comedy/cooking show in Las Vegas.

         In 1999, Zager accepted a position as a reporter at the Beverly Hills Courier newspaper and became editor after nationally scooping all other media and breaking the story about Laura Schlessinger's mother's death.

 When Erin Brockovich sued the city of Beverly Hills alleging an oil well on high school grounds was the cause of numerous cancers in former students, Zager's coverage garnered national attention. In 2003 she was awarded the Los Angeles Journalist of the Year and Best Investigative Reporter by the Los Angeles Press Club. "The Wall Street Journal" and "The Columbia Journalism Review" noted Zager's work in feature articles.

 Her book Greenscam: Erin Brockovich and the Beverly Hills Oil Well book will be released in October. Zager resides in Los Angeles, where she is a part-time communication and journalism professor at California State University.

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