List of Los Angeles Times Journalists and Reporters

1. Fidel Martinez

Designation Editorial Director Author Bio Fidel Martinez writes the Latinx Files, a weekly newsletter that focuses on the American Latinx experience. He started at The Times in 2018 as an audience engagement editor, focusing on sports. Previously he worked as politics editor for Mitu, as a social storytelling producer for Fusion Media Group and content curator and managing editor for Break Media. He is a proud Tejano who will fight anyone who disparages flour tortillas.
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2. David Lauter

Designation Senior Editor Author Bio David Lauter is a senior editor at the Los Angeles Times, based in Washington, D.C. He began writing news in Washington in 1981 and since then has covered Congress, the Supreme Court, the White House under Presidents George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton and four U.S. presidential campaigns. He served as Washington bureau chief from 2011 through 2020. Lauter lived in Los Angeles from 1995 to 2011, where he was The Times’ deputy Foreign editor, deputy Metro editor and then assistant managing editor responsible for California coverage.
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3. Wendell Cox

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4. Greg Braxton

Designation Senior Writer Author Bio A lifelong Los Angeles resident, Greg Braxton has written for the Los Angeles Times for more than three decades. He currently is a staff writer covering television for the Calendar section, and has also written extensively about trends and cultural issues in the entertainment field.
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5. Robert Meeks

Designation Senior Director Of Video Author Bio Robert Meeks is a former senior director of video for news, business and politics at the Los Angeles Times. A native Angeleno, Meeks cut his journalism teeth as a reporter for the Orange County Register, the Compton Bulletin and the Inglewood Tribune. He joined The Times in 2014 and was instrumental in some of the newsroom’s biggest stories, including breaking news video coverage of the San Bernardino shooting, which won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize. Meeks also assisted in the making of the podcast sensation “Dirty John.” His work has earned him three Los Angeles-area Emmy nominat...ions, among other honors. Meeks is a graduate of Cal State Long Beach and an adjunct professor at USC. He makes it to Sunday dinner at his parents’ house in Los Angeles every weekend.more
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6. Liz Weston

Designation Personal Finance Columnist Author Bio Liz Weston, Certified Financial Planner, is a personal finance columnist for the Los Angeles Times and NerdWallet.
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7. Ryan Faughnder

Designation Company Town Senior Editor Author Bio Ryan Faughnder is a senior editor with the Los Angeles Times’ Company Town team, which covers the business of entertainment. He also hosts the entertainment industry newsletter The Wide Shot. A San Diego native, he earned a master’s degree in journalism from USC and a bachelor’s in English from UC Santa Barbara. Before joining The Times in 2013, he wrote for the Los Angeles Business Journal and Bloomberg News. Faughnder was most recently a film business reporter for Company Town. He covered such major stories as the Sony hack, the streaming wars and Bob Iger’s surprise... return to the throne as Disney’s CEO in 2022. He also was part of the team that was a 2022 Pulitzer Prize finalist for coverage of the “Rust” set shooting.more
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8. Meg James

Designation Senior Entertainment Writer Author Bio Meg James is a senior entertainment industry writer for the Los Angeles Times. She was the lead reporter for The Times’ coverage of the deadly “Rust” shooting on a New Mexico film set in 2021, work recognized by the Pulitzer Prize board as a finalist in breaking news. A member of the Company Town team for two decades, James specializes in covering television, corporate media and investigative projects. She previously wrote for the Miami Herald and the Palm Beach Post. A native of Wyoming, she is a graduate of the University of Colorado and Columbia University.
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9. Melanie Mason

Designation Political Correspondent Author Bio Melanie Mason is a former political correspondent for the Los Angeles Times, based in Los Angeles. She first began working for The Times in 2011 in Washington, D.C., covering money and politics. She then moved to the Sacramento bureau, where she wrote about state government, politics and the 2018 governor’s race and did award-winning coverage of sexual harassment in California politics. She has also covered three presidential races. She is originally from Los Angeles and is a graduate of Georgetown University and the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism.
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10. Andy McCullough

Author Bio Senior writer, @TheAthletic. THE LAST OF HIS KIND, a biography of Clayton Kershaw, comes out May 7 for @HachetteUS.
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11. Yvonne Villarreal

Designation Senior Television Writer Author Bio Yvonne Villarreal is a senior television writer for the Calendar section and co-host of “The Envelope” podcast. A native Angeleno, Villarreal earned her bachelor’s degree from Cal State Fullerton and her master’s degree from the Columbia School of Journalism.
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12. Jon Healey

Designation Senior Editor, Fast Break Desk Author Bio Jon Healey writes and edits stories for the Los Angeles Times’ Fast Break Desk, the team that dives into the biggest news of the moment. In his previous stints, he wrote and edited for the Utility Journalism team and The Times editorial board. He covered technology news for The Times from 2000 to mid-2005.
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13. Jeffrey Fleishman

Designation Senior Writer Author Bio Jeffrey Fleishman is a senior writer at the Los Angeles Times. Previously, he was the foreign and national editor. A 2002 Nieman fellow at Harvard University, Fleishman was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in feature writing. A longtime foreign correspondent, he served as bureau chief for The Times in Cairo and Berlin, and was previously based in Rome for the Philadelphia Inquirer. He also was a writer on film, art and culture. Fleishman has been a finalist for the Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting and a finalist for the Center for Public Integrity’s Award for Outstanding Internationa...l Investigative Reporting. He is the author of five novels, including “Good Night, Forever” and “Last Dance.”more
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14. Adam Tschorn

Designation Senior Features Writer Author Bio Adam Tschorn is a senior features writer at the Los Angeles Times, where his coverage of popular culture topics including (but not limited to) style and cannabis can be found in the Lifestyle section. He has been writing about clothes since 2004 and wearing them much, much longer than that. He holds a B.A. in philosophy and an M.A. in journalism, which has prepared him perfectly for looking at things and asking: “Why?”
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15. Jack Leonard

Designation Senior Editor, Investigations Author Bio As senior editor of investigations, Jack Leonard oversees the work of a team of investigative reporters. As a reporter, he was part of the team that exposed fraud and abuse in California’s conservatorship system, a series that won several national awards. He went on to investigate how early releases from L.A.’s jail system perverts justice and fosters more crime on the street. Later, he worked on a sweeping expose of abuse and corruption in the L.A. County Sheriff’s Department.
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16. Lorena Iñiguez Elebee

Designation Senior Data And Graphics Journalist Author Bio Lorena Iñiguez Elebee is a senior data and graphics journalist at the Los Angeles Times.
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17. Matt Brennan

Designation Deputy Editor Author Bio Matt Brennan is a Los Angeles Times’ deputy editor for entertainment and arts. Born in the Boston area, educated at USC and an adoptive New Orleanian for nearly 10 years, he returned to Los Angeles in 2019 as the newsroom’s television editor. He previously served as TV editor at Paste Magazine, and his writing has also appeared in Indiewire, Slate, Deadspin and numerous other publications.
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18. Harry Litman

Designation Journalist Author Bio Harry Litman, the senior legal affairs columnist for the Opinion page, is a former U.S. attorney and deputy assistant attorney general. He is the creator and host of the “Talking Feds” podcast (@talkingfedspod) and a regular commentator on MSNBC, CNN and CBS News. He was previously a contributing columnist for the Washington Post. Litman teaches constitutional and national security law at UCLA and UC San Diego, is a senior fellow at the USC Annenberg Center on Communication Leadership and Policy, and maintains a small law practice specializing in the False Claims Act. He served as ...a law clerk to Supreme Court Justices Thurgood Marshall and Anthony Kennedy. Prior to law school, Litman worked on the Associated Press’ baseball desk and as a feature film production assistant in New York City. Litman and his wife, Julie Roskies Litman, have three children.more
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19. J.r. Lizarraga

Designation Video Journalist Author Bio • Tweets represent my own views • Video Journalist for the Los Angeles Times • Poker player ♣️♦️♥️♠️ • Tacos are life ???? • Dodgers Forever ⚾️
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20. Cecilia Sánchez

Designation Journalist Author Bio Reportera de @latimes en México.
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21. David Shen

Designation Journalist Author Bio Researcher/Journalist at @latimes. Previously reporting for CNA (Taiwan) from Shanghai, Hong Kong and Taipei. Views my own. Tips: ****@proton.me
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22. Charlotte Lytton

Designation Contributor Author Bio Journalist. I like words and whims.
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23. Jireh Deng

Designation Video Journalist Author Bio Jireh Deng (they/them) is the 2023-24 video fellow at the Los Angeles Times and a queer Asian American writer and filmmaker born and raised in the San Gabriel Valley. Their freelance reporting and writing have been published in the Guardian, the Washington Post, Teen Vogue, NPR, the Los Angeles Times, the Huffington Post, PopSugar, LAist and more. In prior positions, they were a fact-checker at the labor magazine In These Times, managed NPR’s Diverse Sources Database as an intern and worked as an associate producer on CapRadio’s limited podcast series on Asian American identity, &l...dquo;Mid Pacific.” Deng currently co-directs the Asian American Journalists Assn. LGBTQIA+ affinity group.more
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24. Markus Ziener

Designation Journalist Author Bio Journalist and Scholar
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25. Jackie Calmes

Designation Columnist Author Bio Jackie Calmes is an opinion columnist for the Los Angeles Times in Washington, D.C. Before joining The Times in 2017 as White House editor, she worked at the New York Times and Wall Street Journal, covering the White House, Congress and national politics. She served as the chief political correspondent and chief economic correspondent at each paper. In 2004, she received the Gerald R. Ford Journalism Prize for Reporting on the Presidency. Calmes began her career in Texas covering state politics and moved to Washington in 1984 to work for Congressional Quarterly. She was a fellow at the Harvard... Kennedy School’s Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy and at the University of Chicago Institute of Politics. She is the author of “Dissent: The Radicalization of the Republican Party and Its Capture of the Court.”more
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26. Hugo Martín

Designation Journalist Author Bio Hugo Martín is an assistant editor on the Fast Break Desk, the Los Angeles Times’ breaking news team. He has been a journalist with the Los Angeles Times for more than 30 years, covering politics, transportation, travel, business and the outdoors. A native Californian, Martín was part of the Metro staff that won Pulitzer Prizes in 1993, 1995 and 1998. He is an avid outdoorsman, a proud father and die-hard Lakers fan.
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27. Amos Barshad

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28. Mickey Rapkin

Designation Contributor Author Bio Author of PITCH PERFECT and IT’S NOT A BED, IT’S A TIME MACHINE (he/him)
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29. Ani Duzdabanyan

Designation Freelance Journalist Author Bio Freelance journalist. Covering diverse cultures and communities for @EaterLA @WineEnthusiast @latimesfood @LAist @Mirrorspectator
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30. Parth M.N.

Designation Journalist Author Bio Parth M.N. is an independent journalist based in Mumbai who worked for the Los Angeles Times as a reporting fellow through Alfred Friendly Press Partners in 2022. In India, he reports on agriculture and rural economy, for which he has won several awards, domestic and international.
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31. Francine Orr

Designation Staff Photojournalist Author Bio Francine Orr has been a staff photojournalist for the Los Angeles Times since 2000. Previously, she was a staff photographer at the Kansas City Star. Orr served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Yap, Federated States of Micronesia. While there, she learned how to be a quiet observer and gained a love for stories. She was raised in Colorado and earned bachelor’s degrees in both history and art from the University of Saint Mary. Orr has focused on public health and poverty issues in Africa, India and the United States. In Los Angeles, she has concentrated on the growing homeless crisis since 2...005. Focusing on the impact of the coronavirus, she has reported inside 14 hospitals throughout the pandemic. In 2022, Orr received the coveted Dart Award for Excellence in Coverage of Trauma and the National Headliner Award. She also won the 2020 Meyer “Mike” Berger for an outstanding example of in-depth, human interest reporting from Columbia Journalism School and was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in feature photography in 2012. Other awards include the Casey Medal for Meritorious Journalism, honors from Investigative Reporters and Editors, the Center for Public Integrity’s Daniel Pearl Award, Sigma Delta Chi Award for Public Service, Harry Chapin Award, Sidney Hillman Award as well as honors from Pictures of the Year International, the National Press Photographers Assn. and the Los Angeles Press Club.more
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32. Vanessa Arredondo

Designation Reporting Fellow Author Bio Vanessa Arredondo was a 2022-23 reporting fellow at the Los Angeles Times. She is a Chicana born and raised in the San Fernando Valley. Arredondo is a proud product of community college and has interned in various digital newsrooms across California, including CalMatters and NBCLA. Before joining The Times, she was a Hearst fellow at the San Francisco Chronicle.
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33. Mackenzie Mays

Designation Journalist Author Bio Mackenzie Mays covers state government and politics in the Los Angeles Times’ Sacramento bureau. Previously, she worked as an investigative reporter for Politico, the Fresno Bee and the Charleston Gazette-Mail. In 2019, she received the National Press Club Press Freedom Award for her political watchdog reporting. She is a graduate of West Virginia University and proud Appalachian.
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34. Luis Sinco

Designation Staff Photojournalist Author Bio Luis Sinco has been a staff photojournalist at the Los Angeles Times since 1997. His career started at small, ethnic community newspapers in Seattle and Los Angeles. While at The Times, Sinco was part of three Pulitzer Prize-winning teams: for coverage of the 1994 Northridge earthquake, the 2004 California wildfires and the 2015 terrorist attack in San Bernardino, Calif. He was a Pulitzer Prize finalist for his photo coverage of the battle of Fallujah. Pictures of the Year International, the National Press Photographers Assn. Best of Photojournalism and the Sidney Hillman Foundation have also ...recognized his work. Sinco emigrated from the Philippines as a child and grew up in the Pacific Northwest. He has a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Washington.more
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35. Jamil Smith

Designation Essayist Author Bio Jamil Smith is a former essayist for the Los Angeles Times. He joined The Times’ newsroom in 2022 after holding senior positions at Rolling Stone, Vox and the New Republic. He has also co-hosted “One Year Later,” a limited radio series for KCRW, as well as several podcasts. Prior to his writing career, Smith worked in cable news and in sports, winning three Emmys while at NFL Films. In 2019, the New York City chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists awarded him its prize for arts reporting for his Time cover story about the film “Black Panther.” He is a ...proud native of Cleveland.more
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36. Luca Evans

Designation Journalist Author Bio Luca Evans is a former multimedia journalist at the Los Angeles Times who focused on prep sports. A 2022 graduate of Chapman University, Evans worked as the sports and managing editor of the campus newspaper before beginning freelance work with The Times.
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37. Paul Duginski

Designation Graphics And Data Journalist Author Bio Paul Duginski is a graphics and data visualization journalist. He joined the Los Angeles Times in 1996. A native of Minnesota, he has a bachelor’s degree in English from Moorhead State University.
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38. Aida Ylanan

Designation Data And Graphics Journalist Author Bio Aida Ylanan is a data journalist at the Los Angeles Times. She first joined the paper as an intern at the Data Desk, where she updated a widely used newsroom tool and published a visual analysis of NYRB book covers. A lifelong news junkie, she graduated in 2018 from UCLA, where she studied statistics and English.
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39. Alejandro Maciel

Designation Journalist Author Bio Alejandro Maciel is a Mexican journalist born in Mexicali, Baja California, on the U.S.-Mexico border. He has worked in numerous publications such as People Magazine en Español; El Diario/La Prensa of New York and La Opinión of Los Angeles. He has extensive experience in radio and television. He studied Ciencias de la Comunicación in the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico and most recently was the editorial director of the Los Angeles Times en Español. He left The Times in 2023.
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40. Phi Do

Designation Data And Graphics Journalist Author Bio Phi Do is a data journalist for the Los Angeles Times. Before joining The Times in 2018, she helped develop databases for Voice of OC and wrote for the Santa Barbara Independent and the Hollywood Reporter. She graduated from UC Santa Barbara where she created a new data journalism section at the student newspaper, the Daily Nexus. When not reporting, she spends her time making films and playing D&D.
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41. Jennifer Lu

Designation Journalist Author Bio Jennifer Lu is a former Los Angeles Times data journalist. Before joining The Times, she reported on environmental issues including air pollution, drinking water contaminants and agricultural runoff. She graduated from the University of Missouri with a master’s in journalism and holds a degree in biochemistry from Brandeis University.
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42. Suzy Exposito

Designation Columnist Author Bio Suzy Exposito is a culture columnist with the Latino Initiatives team at the Los Angeles Times. She joined the newsroom as a music reporter in October 2020 and previously spearheaded the Latin music section at Rolling Stone. Exposito has also written for NPR, Pitchfork and Revolver.
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43. Abhinanda Bhattacharyya

Designation Data And Graphics Journalist Author Bio Abhinanda Bhattacharyya is a data and graphics journalist at the Los Angeles Times. She has a background in technology, math and education, and previously worked for the interactive storytelling team at National Geographic and the graphics and engineering team at the San Francisco Chronicle. She has a master’s degree in journalism from USC Annenberg.
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44. Whitney Friedlander

Designation Contributor Author Bio Entertainment journalist running on fumes of dry shampoo and Coke Zero. Hater of pickles, olives and beets.
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45. Mel Melcon

Designation Staff Photojournalist Author Bio Mel Melcon started out with the Los Angeles Times in 1984 as a summer intern and has been here ever since. He worked on a freelance basis from 1985 to 1997, then was hired full time. Melcon likes to capture the offbeat and funny side of life in his images.
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46. Lila Seidman

Designation Reporter Author Bio As a West Coast Experiences reporter for the Los Angeles Times, Lila Seidman explores the grandeur and simple pleasures of the Golden State’s great outdoors. Since joining The Times in 2020, Seidman has investigated mental health policy and jumped on breaking news, with work supported by fellowships from USC’s Center for Health Journalism and the Carter Center. Previously, she covered Glendale city politics for the Times Community News. She once ate a fish caught in the L.A. River for the sake of a story. A native Angeleno, Seidman cut her teeth as a freelancer at L.A. Weekly and... Patch. She’s reported for a variety of publications, including the Daily Journal, a statewide legal publication, and the UB Post, an English-language newspaper in Mongolia, and her work has appeared in Gawker and Vice. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Russian and psychology from Reed College, and is working toward a master’s degree in clinical psychology from Pepperdine University.more
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47. Melissa Healy

Designation Reporter Author Bio Melissa Healy is a former health and science reporter with the Los Angeles Times who wrote from the Washington, D.C., area. She covered prescription drugs, obesity, nutrition and exercise, and neuroscience, mental health and human behavior. She was at The Times for more than 30 years, and has covered national security, environment, domestic social policy, Congress and the White House.
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48. Cameron Joseph

Designation Freelance Reporter Author Bio Cameron Joseph is a freelance reporter who has been covering Congress, the White House and the campaign trail since 2009. He is a contributor to the Almanac of American Politics, and previously worked for Vice News, Talking Points Memo, the New York Daily News, the Hill and National Journal.
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49. Anabel Sosa

Designation Reporter Author Bio Anabel Sosa is a politics reporter for the Los Angeles Times’ Sacramento bureau covering the state Capitol and local elections. She comes to The Times as the inaugural California Local News fellow. Sosa is a graduate of the UC Berkeley School of Journalism, where she specialized in investigative reporting. She previously worked as a police bureau reporter from her hometown, New York City. Her work is also in CalMatters, the New York Times and Reveal from the Center for Investigative Reporting.
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50. Randy Lewis

Designation Reporter Author Bio Randy Lewis covered pop music for the Los Angeles Times from 1981 to 2020, working in that time as a reporter, music critic and editor for the Calendar section. He has interviewed most of the members of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. He’s also written first-person accounts of performing the music of Shostakovich and Prokofiev on clarinet and singing Mozart’s Requiem with world-class professionals. In addition, he enjoys belting out “Wooly Bully” in dive bars with his band, the Rounders.
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51. Julia Wick

Designation Staff Writer Author Bio Julia Wick is a Metro reporter covering Los Angeles City Hall. She and her colleagues won the 2023 Pulitzer Prize in breaking news for reporting on a leaked audio recording that upended Los Angeles politics. She was also part of the team that was a 2022 Pulitzer Prize finalist for work covering a fatal shooting on the set of the film “Rust.” Before joining the Times, Wick was the editor in chief of LAist.
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52. Alejandra Reyes-velarde

Designation Author Author Bio Alejandra Reyes-Velarde is a former Metro reporter for the Los Angeles Times. Before joining The Times in 2017, she wrote for the San Francisco Business Times and covered local news and crime for the Sacramento Bee. She is a graduate of UCLA, where she worked at the student-run Daily Bruin. Originally from Duarte, Calif., Reyes is a native Spanish speaker.
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53. Margot Roosevelt

Designation California Economic Reporter Author Bio Margot Roosevelt covered California economic, labor and workplace issues for the Los Angeles Times. A former environmental reporter for The Times, she previously wrote for Time magazine as a foreign and national correspondent, for the Washington Post on the Congressional beat, and for the Orange County Register focusing on business and the Southern California economy.
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54. Claire Rush

Designation Contributor Author Bio @AP in Oregon. Previously @Report4America and on French airwaves ???????? @France24_en @RFI_En. LA native, @UCBerkeley alum. Retweets≠endorsements
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55. Andrea Chang

Designation Staff Writer Author Bio Andrea Chang is a wealth reporter for the Los Angeles Times. She was previously a Column One editor, the deputy Food editor and an assistant Business editor, and has covered beats including technology and retail. Chang joined the paper in 2007 after graduating from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. She grew up in Cupertino, Calif.
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56. Ashley Lee

Designation Staff Writer Author Bio Ashley Lee is a staff reporter at the Los Angeles Times, where she writes about theater, movies, television and the bustling intersection of the stage and the screen. An alum of the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center’s National Critics Institute and Poynter’s Power of Diverse Voices, she leads workshops on arts journalism at the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival. She was previously a New York-based editor at the Hollywood Reporter and has written for the Washington Post, Backstage and American Theatre, among others. She is currently working remotely alongside her do...g, Oliver.more
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57. Astrid Kayembe

Designation Reporter Author Bio Astrid Kayembe was a 2022-23 reporting fellow at the Los Angeles Times. Kayembe grew up in South-Central Los Angeles and is a graduate of USC, where she studied journalism. Most recently, she covered South Memphis, Whitehaven and Westwood for the Memphis Commercial Appeal through Report for America. She has also contributed to national and regional stories for the USA Today Network. While at USC, she was an Intersections South L.A. editor at USC Annenberg Media and arts and entertainment editor at the Daily Trojan. She previously served as a COVID-19 reporting intern at the Los Angeles Times, ...as a Truth Told fellow at Refinery29 through the Google News Initiative and social media associate at L.A. Taco.more
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58. Marc Ballon

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59. Jill Leovy

Designation Reporter And Editor Author Bio Jill Leovy was a reporter and editor for the Los Angeles Times from 1993 to 2017, most recently covering cybersecurity. She is the author of the nonfiction book “Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America.”
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60. Sam Quinones

Designation Reporter Author Bio Journalist, author of the four books???? I mostly (re)tweet stories, mine&others, like a news service. I don't argue on Twitter. No blue check but it's really me.
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61. Chris Megerian

Designation Staff Writer Author Bio Former staff writer Chris Megerian covered the White House from the Los Angeles Times’ D.C. bureau until January 2022. He previously wrote about the Russia investigation, the 2016 presidential campaign and the 2015 United Nations summit on global warming in Paris. While based in Sacramento, he reported on Gov. Jerry Brown, climate change policies, California politics and state finances. Before joining The Times in January 2012, he spent three years covering politics and law enforcement at the Star-Ledger in New Jersey. He grew up in Massachusetts and graduated from Emory University in At...lanta.more
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62. Anupam B. Jena

Designation Contributor Author Bio Economist, doctor, and Joseph P. Newhouse Professor at Harvard. Co-author, RANDOM ACTS OF MEDICINE, book and Substack. Host of Freakonomics, M.D.
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63. J. Clara Chan

Designation Reporter Author Bio J. Clara Chan is a reporter for the Los Angeles Times’ Company Town team, where she covers the major Hollywood studios. She previously worked as a digital media writer at the Hollywood Reporter, where her coverage focused on the streaming business, podcasting and the creator economy. An alumna of Columbia University’s Barnard College and the Manhattan School of Music, Chan also is an accomplished violist.
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64. Maloy Moore

Designation Data Reporter Author Bio Maloy Moore is a former researcher and data reporter at the Los Angeles Times. She joined The Times in 1990 and worked on many widely recognized projects including “California’s dizzying road to reopening,” “L.A. police killings: Tracking D.A. decisions since 2004,” “How eight elite San Francisco families funded Gavin Newsom’s political ascent” and the “The Homicide Report.” She retired in 2022.
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65. Keri Blakinger

Designation Reporter Author Bio Keri Blakinger covers the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department. Before joining the Los Angeles Times in 2023, she spent nearly seven years in Texas, first covering criminal justice for the Houston Chronicle and then covering prisons for the Marshall Project. Her work has appeared everywhere from the BBC to the New York Daily News, from Vice to the Washington Post Magazine, where her 2019 reporting on women in jail helped earn a National Magazine Award. She is the author of “Corrections in Ink,” a 2022 memoir about her time in prison.
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66. Matt Hamilton

Designation Reporter Author Bio Matt Hamilton is a reporter for the Los Angeles Times. He won the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting with colleagues Harriet Ryan and Paul Pringle and was part of the team of reporters that won a Pulitzer Prize for its coverage of the San Bernardino terrorist attack. A graduate of Boston College and the University of Southern California, he joined The Times in 2013.
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67. Alexandra Del Rosario

Designation Entertainment Reporter Author Bio Alexandra Del Rosario is an entertainment reporter on the Los Angeles Times Fast Break Desk. Before The Times, she was a television reporter at Deadline Hollywood, where she first served as an associate editor. She has written about a wide range of topics including TV ratings, casting and development, video games and AAPI representation. Del Rosario is a UCLA graduate and also worked at the Hollywood Reporter and TheWrap.
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68. Grace Toohey

Designation Reporter Author Bio Grace Toohey is a reporter at the Los Angeles Times covering breaking news for the Fast Break Desk. Before joining the newsroom in 2022, she covered criminal justice issues at the Orlando Sentinel and the Advocate in Baton Rouge. Toohey is a Maryland native and proud Terp.
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69. Howard Blume

Designation Education Reporter Author Bio Howard Blume covers education for the Los Angeles Times. He’s won the top investigative reporting prize from the L.A. Press Club and print Journalist of the Year from the L.A. Society of Professional Journalists chapter. He recently retired “Deadline L.A.,” a past honoree for best public-affairs radio program, which he produced and co-hosted on KPFK-FM (90.7) for 15 years.
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70. Connor Sheets

Designation Investigative And Enterprise Reporter Author Bio Connor Sheets is an investigative and enterprise reporter for the Los Angeles Times. Before coming to The Times, he was an investigative reporter in Alabama, where his work was honored by numerous national journalism contests. His reporting on Alabama sheriffs and jails won a Sidney Award and two Sigma Delta Chi Awards and was a finalist for the Selden Ring, Goldsmith, Livingston, Tom Renner, Michael Kelly and Worth Bingham prizes and awards.
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71. Hailey Branson-Potts

Designation Metro Reporter Author Bio Hailey Branson-Potts is a Metro reporter who joined the Los Angeles Times in 2011. She has reported on a wide range of topics, including rural California and LGBTQ issues. Branson-Potts was part of the team that won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for breaking news for its coverage of the San Bernardino terrorist attack, as well as the team that was a 2020 Pulitzer finalist for its coverage of a boat fire that killed 34 people off the coast of Santa Barbara. She grew up in the tiny town of Perry, Okla., got her start at the Perry Daily Journal, and graduated from the University of Oklahoma.
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72. Tony Briscoe

Designation Air Quality And Environmental Health Reporter Author Bio Tony Briscoe is an environmental reporter with the Los Angeles Times. His coverage focuses on the intersection of air quality and environmental health. Prior to joining The Times, Briscoe was an investigative reporter for ProPublica in Chicago and an environmental beat reporter at the Chicago Tribune. Briscoe was the recipient of the Peter Lisagor Award for best science and environmental reporting in Chicago in 2019 and 2020. A graduate of Michigan State University, he began his career as a breaking news reporter at the Detroit News.
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73. Alex Wigglesworth

Designation Environment Reporter Author Bio Alex Wigglesworth is an environment reporter who covers wildfire and forestry for the Los Angeles Times. Before joining the newsroom in 2016, she was a general assignment reporter for the Philadelphia Inquirer, Daily News and Philly.com. A Philadelphia native, she graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a degree in medical anthropology and global health. She currently lives in the Mojave Desert.
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74. Ruben Vives

Designation General Assignment Reporter Author Bio Ruben Vives is a general assignment reporter for the Los Angeles Times. A native of Guatemala, he got his start in journalism by writing for The Times’ Homicide Report in 2007. He helped uncover the financial corruption in the city of Bell that led to criminal charges against eight city officials. The 2010 investigative series won the Pulitzer Prize for public service and other prestigious awards.
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75. Harriet Ryan

Designation Investigative Reporter Author Bio Harriet Ryan is an investigative reporter for the Los Angeles Times. Since joining the paper in 2008, she has written about high-profile people, including Phil Spector, Michael Jackson and Tom Girardi, and institutions, including USC, the State Bar of California, the Catholic Church, the Kabbalah Centre and Purdue Pharma, the manufacturer of OxyContin. Ryan won the Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting with colleagues Matt Hamilton and Paul Pringle in 2019. She and Hamilton won the Collier Prize for State Government Accountability in 2023. She previously worked at Court TV and the Asbury ...Park Press. She is a graduate of Columbia University.more
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76. Paige St. John

Designation Investigative Reporter Author Bio Paige St. John covers criminal justice, disasters and investigative stories for the Los Angeles Times from Northern California. She was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in investigative reporting in 2011. She hails most recently from Florida, where she covered state politics, hurricanes and property insurance.
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77. Hayley Smith

Designation Environment Reporter Author Bio Hayley Smith is an environment reporter for the Los Angeles Times, where she covers the many ways climate change is reshaping life in California, including drought, floods, wildfires and deadly heat. She previously worked on the breaking news team. Originally from Miami, she holds a master’s degree in journalism from USC.
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78. Corinne Purtill

Designation Science & Medicine Reporter Author Bio Corinne Purtill is a science and medicine reporter for the Los Angeles Times. Her writing on science and human behavior has appeared in the New Yorker, the New York Times, Time Magazine, the BBC, Quartz and elsewhere. Before joining The Times, she worked as the senior London correspondent for GlobalPost (now PRI) and as a reporter and assignment editor at the Cambodia Daily in Phnom Penh. She is a native of Southern California and a graduate of Stanford University.
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79. Nardine Saad

Designation Entertainment Reporter Author Bio Nardine Saad covers breaking entertainment news, trending culture topics, celebrities and their kin for the Fast Break Desk at the Los Angeles Times. Born and raised in Southern California, she graduated from UC Irvine with degrees in literary journalism and psychology. She later earned a master’s degree in online journalism from the University of Southern California. She joined the Los Angeles Times in 2010 as a MetPro trainee and has reported from homicide scenes, flooded canyons, red carpet premieres and award shows for the Metro and Entertainment & Arts sections.
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80. David Zahniser

Designation Reporter Author Bio David Zahniser covers Los Angeles City Hall for the Los Angeles Times. He joined the newsroom in 2007 and previously wrote on local government for the Claremont Courier, Pasadena Star-News, the Daily Breeze, the L.A. Weekly and the San Diego Union-Tribune. He is a graduate of Pomona College and lives in Los Angeles.
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81. Benjamin Oreskes

Designation Politics Reporter Author Bio Benjamin Oreskes covers state and national politics for the Los Angeles Times. Previously, he covered City Hall, homelessness and wrote the Essential California newsletter. Before coming to The Times in February 2017, he covered foreign policy at Politico in Washington, D.C. Oreskes and his colleagues won the 2023 Pulitzer Prize in breaking news for reporting on a leaked audio recording that upended Los Angeles politics. He was also part of a team of reporters awarded the 2023 Everett McKinley Dirksen Award for Distinguished Reporting of Congress for coverage of Sen. Dianne Feinstein. In 20...21, the Los Angeles Press Club named him print journalist of the year honoring “his on-the-ground reporting of various homelessness issues during the pandemic.”more
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82. Jonah Valdez

Designation Staff Writer Author Bio Jonah Valdez is a reporter at the Los Angeles Times. Before joining The Times as a member of the 2021-22 Los Angeles Times Fellowship class, he worked for the Southern California News Group, where he covered breaking news and wrote award-winning feature stories on topics such as mass shootings, labor and human trafficking, and movements for racial justice. Valdez was raised in San Diego and attended La Sierra University in Riverside, where he edited the campus newspaper. Before graduating, Valdez interned at his hometown paper, the San Diego Union-Tribune, with its Watchdog investigations team.... His previous work can be found in Voice of San Diego and the San Diego Reader.more
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83. Alexandra E. Petri

Designation Trends And Breaking News Reporter Author Bio Alexandra E. Petri covers trends and breaking news for the Los Angeles Times. She previously was on the Live team at the New York Times, where she helped plan coverage and reported on live events, including the mass shootings in Buffalo and Uvalde, the Scripps National Spelling Bee, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the R. Kelly trial, the Olympics, the condo collapse in Surfside, Fla., the coronavirus pandemic and the Boston Marathon. Petri even reported on the New York City Marathon while running in it. Petri is a two-time reporting fellow with the International Women’s Media Foundat...ion. She graduated from Penn State with a degree in journalism and international studies.more
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84. Rong-Gong Lin II

Designation Metro Reporter Author Bio Rong-Gong Lin II is a Metro reporter based in San Francisco who specializes in covering statewide earthquake safety issues and the COVID-19 pandemic. He won the California Newspaper Publishers Assn.’s Freedom of Information Award and the University of Florida’s Joseph L. Brechner Freedom of Information Award. He was a finalist for the Ursula and Gilbert Farfel Prize for Excellence in Investigative Reporting and the Knight Award for Public Service. A San Francisco area native, he graduated from UC Berkeley in 2004.
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85. Helen Li

Designation Audio & Reporting Fellow Author Bio Helen Li was a member of the 2022-23 Los Angeles Times Fellowship class. She grew up in Richmond, Va., and graduated from Washington University in St. Louis, where she studied international development. After working as a university teacher through the Princeton in Asia fellowship in China and Nepal, she pivoted to freelance journalism and fact-checking. During the 2020 elections, she collaborated remotely with a team of volunteers to produce “Fresh Off the Vote,” an explanatory podcast about Asian American civic engagement. These collective experiences brought her to The Times, wh...ere she worked for the podcast, Business and newsletter teams. She aspires to learn more about the human experience through different forms of storytelling.more
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86. Jack Flemming

Designation Luxury Real Estate Reporter Author Bio Jack Flemming covers luxury real estate for the Los Angeles Times. A Midwestern boy at heart, he was raised in St. Louis and studied journalism at the University of Missouri. Before joining The Times as an intern in 2017, he wrote for the Columbia Missourian and Politico Europe.
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87. James Rainey

Designation Enterprise Reporter Author Bio James Rainey has covered multiple presidential elections, the war in Iraq, the foster care system and the environment. He was part of L.A. Times teams that won Pulitzer Prizes for coverage of wildfires, the 1994 Northridge earthquake and the 1997 North Hollywood shootout. He wrote the twice-weekly column, “On the Media.” He also reported on the film industry for Variety and on climate change for NBC News.
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88. Debbie Truong

Designation Higher Education Reporter Author Bio Debbie Truong is a higher education reporter for the Los Angeles Times. Previously, she covered PK-12 education for WAMU-FM (88.5), the NPR affiliate in Washington, D.C., and the Washington Post. She attended Syracuse University and received a master’s degree in journalism from American University. She grew up in the San Gabriel Valley.
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89. Steve Glazer

Designation Reporter Author Bio California State Senator. Chair Senate Committee on Elections and Constitutional Amendments. #civility #equality #understanding
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90. Queenie Wong

Designation State Politics Reporter Author Bio Queenie Wong is a state politics reporter covering tech and entertainment policy for the Los Angeles Times. Previously, she wrote about social media companies for CNET and the Mercury News. She also covered politics and education for the Statesman Journal in Salem, Ore. Growing up in Southern California, she started reading The Times as a kid and took her first journalism class in middle school. She graduated from Washington and Lee University, where she studied journalism and studio art.
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91. Hannah Wiley

Designation Bay Area And North Coast Reporter Author Bio Hannah Wiley covers the Bay Area and North Coast for the Los Angeles Times. She previously worked with The Times’ Sacramento bureau as a state politics reporter, covering the Legislature and pivotal policy issues including homelessness and housing, mental health, addiction, gun control and the state judicial system. Before coming to The Times, she covered state politics for the Sacramento Bee. Wiley has a bachelor’s degree from St. Louis University and a master’s degree in journalism from Northwestern University. She is based in San Francisco.
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92. Gabriel San Román

Designation Oc Reporter Author Bio Gabriel San Román is a Metro reporter covering Orange County for the Los Angeles Times. He joined the news organization in 2021 as a feature writer for TimesOC, a Times Community News publication. San Román previously worked at OC Weekly – as a reporter, podcast producer and columnist – until the newspaper’s closing in late 2019. He also may just be the tallest Mexican in O.C.
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93. Nelson Lichtenstein

Designation Reporter Author Bio Nelson Lichtenstein, UC Santa Barbara. His new book is A Fabulous Failure: The Clinton Presidency and the Transformation of American Capitalism.
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94. Sam Dean

Designation Business Reporter Author Bio Sam Dean is a business reporter for the Los Angeles Times covering the technology industry in Southern California. He has previously worked as a feature writer for a number of publications including Newsweek, the Verge, 538 and Lucky Peach.
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95. Marissa Evans

Designation Health And Culture Reporter Author Bio Marissa Evans is a health and culture reporter for the Los Angeles Times, where she covers health and wellness issues at the intersection of Hollywood, pop culture, race, gender, consumerism and more. She previously covered race and health on the California desk. Before joining The Times in 2021, Evans worked for the Star Tribune in Minneapolis, where she covered housing, Black community trauma after George Floyd’s death, how communities of color have been affected by COVID-19 and how Minnesota allows private hospitals to seize tax refunds from consumers with unpaid medical bills. She al...so previously reported for the Texas Tribune, CQ Roll Call and Kaiser Health News. Evans won a 2018 Online News Assn. award for explanatory reporting for a project on Texas’ maternal mortality crisis. Her work has appeared in the Atlantic, Medium, Oprah Magazine and other outlets. She graduated from Marquette University with a degree in journalism.more
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96. Brennon Dixson

Designation Metro Reporter Author Bio Brennon Dixson is a Metro reporter covering Black communities at the Los Angeles Times. The Central Valley native graduated from Cal State Long Beach and previously reported on education and city politics in the cities of Santa Clarita, Santa Monica and Pasadena for various newspapers. Dixson enjoys watching his wild husky-Shepherds wreak havoc on his garden when not working.
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97. Jack Dolan

Designation Investigative Reporter Author Bio Jack Dolan is an investigative reporter for the Los Angeles Times. A winner of numerous national awards, he has twice been named a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. In 2021, he was recognized for exposing failures in Los Angeles County’s safety-net healthcare system that resulted in long, deadly delays to see specialists. In 2001, he was a finalist for a series revealing the doctors with the worst disciplinary histories in the country, using a database the federal government sought to keep secret. He also contributed to coverage of the San Bernardino mass shooting, which won the Pulitzer ...for breaking news in 2016.more
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98. Laura J. Nelson

Designation Investigative And Enterprise Reporter Author Bio Laura J. Nelson is an investigative and enterprise reporter at the Los Angeles Times. Her work has exposed and explained chaos in the U.S. Postal System, inequities in COVID-19 vaccine distribution and the spread of far-right extremism in California’s world of health, wellness and spirituality. She previously covered transportation, mobility and commuting for The Times. Nelson was part of the team that won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for its coverage of the San Bernardino terrorist attack, as well as the team that was a 2020 Pulitzer finalist for its coverage of a dive-boat fire that killed ...34 people off the coast of Santa Barbara. Nelson grew up in Kansas and joined The Times in 2012.more
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99. Melissa Gomez

Designation Metro Reporter Author Bio Melissa Gomez is a Metro reporter for the Los Angeles Times. She previously covered education and the 2020 presidential campaign at The Times. A native Floridian, she graduated from the University of Florida.
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100. Jaclyn Cosgrove

Designation Reporter Author Bio Jaclyn Cosgrove is a reporter at the Los Angeles Times. They write about L.A. County government, focusing much attention on the county’s mental health treatment system. You can often find them feverishly taking notes at a Board of Supervisors or county commission meeting. Cosgrove also writes about disability services, the county library system, parks and recreation, or whatever story a county employee or local resident has tipped them off to. They recently led a yearlong initiative starting in 2022 that explored a variety of issues around mental health – medical, structural, perso...nal, societal and definitional. Before joining The Times, Cosgrove worked at the Oklahoman, where they wrote extensively about the state’s mental health and substance use treatment system, or lack thereof. Cosgrove grew up in a small town near the Oklahoma State Penitentiary and became interested in the criminal legal system early in life. They are a proud graduate of Oklahoma State University (but disinterested in football) and have a master of legal studies degree from UCLA School of Law.more
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