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Biography
Olsen Ebright is a streaming and digital journalist who currently lives in Los Angeles. He’s worked in local TV news for 20 years, most recently overseeing the west region of CBS News and Stations and leading the development and launch of Paramount’s Car Chase, a FAST channel dedicated to police pursuits 24/7. Before that, he led the streaming and digital team at KTLA, and has also worked as a digital journalist at KNBC, KNTV and WCMH. He’s won multiple awards for digital journalism, including an SPJ Sigma Delta Chi Award for breaking news coverage. His professional passion centers on service leadership and empowering other journalists to produce their best work, and he is currently taking on freelance projects via his own consultancy, Newsworthy.
In 2024, he was appointed to a vacant seat on the Los Feliz Neighborhood Council representing District B, and in 2025, he won re-election. He also serves as LFNC’s vice president of administration, chairing the Rules Committee and is a member of the Housing, Recreation, Public Health & Safety, and Outreach committees.
When not working, he’s often out and about in Los Feliz, the best neighborhood in LA, with his wife Mallory and their dog Bixby, who you can follow on Instagram here. He’s also commonly spotted losing Kirkland balls at the golf courses of Southern California. He’s a season ticket holder for the supporters’ section of Angel City FC and recently finished A20 on Slay the Spire.
He grew up in the suburbs of Columbus, Ohio, and graduated with a public relations degree from Kent State University, where he won back-to-back intramural broomball championships. He also co-founded the university’s dodgeball club. He was once called the “karaoke king of Los Feliz” by a stranger, and in 2016, he had a sandwich named after him at a the Greyhound, a bar in L.A.’s Highland Park neighborhood. It was $11, came with one side, and was very popular.
And most importantly, he once hit a hole-in-one. You can read about it here.
LFNC issues tracker
My re-election campaign was focused on lowering costs, especially housing, protecting our institutions, making your voice heard at City Hall, and building community. I believe in accountability and transparency from our elected officials, so in the coming months and years, we’ll be using this section of olsenebright.com to track actual action and impact on those promises. As always, folks can contact me through here or official LFNC channels and meetings. You can view an archived version of my campaign website here and the 2025 election results are here.
Lowering costs, especially housing
- August 2025 – CIS calling for LA to support AB 1033, allowing ADUs to be more easily sold as condominiums (CF 25-0753)
- September 2025 – CIS supporting SB 346, which would help identify illegal short-term rentals and collect proper taxes (CF 25-0002-S22)
Protecting our institutions
- May 2025 – Elected LFNC vice president of admin, chair of rules committee
Making your voice heard at City Hall
- Copper theft/light outages
- May 2025 – Letter calling for LA to support AB 476, designed to make copper less attractive for thieves (PDF)
- June 2025 – CIS designed to improve street light repair times (CF 25-0125)
- July 2025 – CIS allocating additional funds to help repair street lights (CF 25-0719)
- September 2025 – CIS asking LA to explore sensors as a way to detect broken lights (CF 25-0972)
- ICE raids across LA
- July 2025 – CIS calling for LA to support SB 627, which would ban law enforcement from wearing masks (CF 25-0002-S62/video explainer)
- July 2025 – CIS calling for LA to support SB 805, requiring law enforcement to visibly display ID with their agency and name/badge number (CF 25-0002-S64/video explainer)
- July 2025 – CIS calling for an ordinance that would require LAPD officers to verify the identity of any individual claiming to be a law enforcement officer (CF 25-0747/video explainer)
- July 2025 – CIS requesting LAPD’s after-action report on recent ICE protests (CF 25-0639)
- September 2025 – CIS calling for a ban on military drones being used to spy on US civilians (CF 25-0002-S84)
Building community
- Attend monthly clean-ups with the Los Feliz Trash Busters (Instagram)
- September 2025 – CIS calling to repeal LA Municipal Code 56.16, which criminalizes children playing in public spaces (CF 25-0863)
Questions, comments, grave concerns?
Latest news
Save the Griffith Park Merry-Go-Round, meet the new youth reps, learn about some potential traffic changes, and discover a parks program that could unlock playgrounds across Los Feliz. All that and more in this quick recap of the September 2025 LFNC Governing Board meeting.
Meet the OG Trash Buster himself, Mike Hain, and be sure to join us for one of the Los Feliz Trash Busters clean-ups happening in September.
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It was October 2021 when I left KTLA 5 News. My general manager was retiring, and my news director was moving on. The industry was changing, the company was changing, and like the news leaders above…
“Olsen is a clear, pro-housing voice who knows we need more homes, more density, and fewer roadblocks. As a member of the LFNC Housing Committee, he’s already backed reforms like single-stair buildings and supported new housing in Los Feliz.”
As a supporter of safe and multimodal transportation in Los Angeles, Olsen Ebright has earned the endorsement of Streets For All in his race for Los Feliz Neighborhood Council.
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