I knew I was going to be a journalist, and that was it...full stop - Suzy Welch



Liana Aghajanian is a journalist from Los Angeles covering arts, culture, news and more, who would perpetually love to be in a newsroom. She holds a B.A. in Journalism from California State University, Northridge. She currently works full time as a content editor by day, collaborating with publications such as the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, USA Today and Hearst, and as a writer for various online and print publications by night, including The Glendale News-Press and  Burbank Leader, both part of Times Community News, a division of The Los Angeles Times. She has also written for Edible Los Angeles, Bitch magazine, Paste, Ararat magazine,  The Outlook Newspaper and Spot.us, a crowd funded journalism initiative funding by the Knight Foundation.   You can learn more about her writing and editing background  here.

She is also publisher, editor and writer of ianyan, an online magazine of Armenian news, features, opinions and more, where she has written about the protests regarding the Armenia-Turkey Protocols and the effect of the 2009 Iranian Election and subsequent fallout on the Iranian-Armenian community.

When she's not writing or editing, she spends her time baking, knitting, painting, watching Bollywood films and working on The Cunning Adventures of Margeaux Clyde, her investigative reporter alter-ego.

She loves typewriters, the smell of old books, photo booths and great conversations over tea.

She is currently trying to navigate her way through the journalism industry and focus on news and investigative reporting while putting together a book of essays on growing up Armenian within the landscapes of Los Angeles.


Skills: Fluent in Armenian. AP Style, Microsoft Office, Photoshop, QuarkXpress, InDesign, Adobe Page Maker, HTML, SEO, Content Management Systems, WordPress, FTP sofware, Digital and Manual SLR. Layout design, photo editing, fact-checking, research, copy editing, reporting.