LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles Times suspended an Internet blog written by a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter because the paper says he posted items using assumed names.
The newspaper is still investigating the postings on its online Golden State blog by Michael Hiltzik, a Times spokeswoman said.
"Hiltzik admitted Thursday that he posted items on the paper's website, and on other websites, under names other than his own," the Times said in a "Notice from the Editors" posted on its site Friday.
It said the postings violate newspaper ethics guidelines that require editors and reporters to identify themselves when dealing with the public.
Amy Moynihan, a spokeswoman for the paper, said the Times was still investigating and would not comment until that process was complete.
Moynihan wouldn't say if the suspension of the blog had any impact on Hiltzik's duties as a reporter or editor. A voicemail message left Friday for Hiltzik and an e-mail message asking for comment weren't immediately returned.
Hiltzik and Times reporter Chuck Philips won the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for a series of articles exposing entertainment industry corruption. Hiltzik's blog appears on most Mondays and Thursdays.
A Times staff member for more than 20 years, Hiltzik has worked as a financial and political writer, a foreign correspondent in Africa and Russia, and a technology and science writer and editor, according to the newspaper's biographical information.
He also wrote the books "Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC" and "Dawn of the Computer Age."
