Rone Tempest is a Salt Lake City, UT-based American author and investigative reporter. He won a 1997 Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting. Working for the ''

Los Angeles Times The ''Los Angeles Times'' is an American Newspaper#Daily, daily newspaper that began publishing in Los Angeles, California, in 1881. Based in the Greater Los Angeles city of El Segundo, California, El Segundo since 2018, it is the List of new ...

'', he shared the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting, for its coverage of the Old Fire, a

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in October 2003. He is a frequent contributor to the nonprofit Wyoming news sit
wyofile.com
that he cofounded with Christopher Findlater in 2008. In 2018 he joined the board of the non-profi
Utah Investigative Journalism Project
for which he contributes occasiona
articles
to th
Salt Lake Tribune.
He is the author of the nonfiction book
"The Last Western"
and
"Two Elk Saga: How Man's Dream Became State, Federal Nightmare"

Life

He graduated from the

University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California), is a Public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Berkeley, California, United States. Founded in 1868 and named after t ...

. He worked for the ''Oklahoma City Times'', ''Daily Oklahoman'', ''Oklahoma Journal,'' ''Detroit Free Press'', and ''Dallas Times Herald''. He was a reporter for the ''Los Angeles Times'', from 1976 to 2007 where he served as bureau chief in Houston, New Delhi, Paris, Beijing, Hong Kong and Sacramento. Tempest was visiting lecturer at the

, from 1999 to 2007 and from 2007 to 2010 consultant to

ProPublica ProPublica (), legally Pro Publica, Inc., is a nonprofit investigative journalism organization based in New York City. ProPublica's investigations are conducted by its staff of full-time reporters, and the resulting stories are distributed to ne ...

. He lives in Salt Lake City, Utah.

References

External links

*https://www.ronetempest.com/
Wyofile.comMediabistro.com
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