Rone Tempest is a Salt Lake City, UT-based American author and

investigative reporter Investigative journalism is a form of journalism in which reporters deeply investigate a single topic of interest, such as serious crimes, political corruption, or corporate wrongdoing. An investigative journalist may spend months or years rese ...

. He won a 1997

Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting The Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting is an award for journalists administered by the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard University. The program was launched in 1991, with the goal of exposing examples of ...

. Working for the ''

Los Angeles Times The ''Los Angeles Times'' (abbreviated as ''LA Times'') is a daily newspaper that started publishing in Los Angeles in 1881. Based in the LA-adjacent suburb of El Segundo since 2018, it is the sixth-largest newspaper by circulation in the Un ...

'', he shared the 2004

Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting The Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting is a Pulitzer Prize awarded for a distinguished example of breaking news, local reporting on news of the moment. It has been awarded since 1953 under several names: *From 1953 to 1963: Pulitzer Priz ...

, for its coverage of the

Old Fire The Old Fire was a large complex wildfire that started on October 25, 2003 (the original Old Fire began on October 25), near Old Waterman Canyon Road and California State Route 18 in the San Bernardino Mountains, in San Bernardino County, South ...

, a

wildfire A wildfire, forest fire, bushfire, wildland fire or rural fire is an unplanned, uncontrolled and unpredictable fire in an area of Combustibility and flammability, combustible vegetation. Depending on the type of vegetation present, a wildfire ...

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 boo
"The Last Western"
NeoText (2020) and eboo
"Two Elk Saga: How Man's Dream Became State, Federal Nightmare"
published b
Atavist
press (2014)

Life

He graduated from the

University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of California, it is the state's first land-grant u ...

. 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 organization based in New York City. In 2010, it became the first online news source to win a Pulitzer Prize, for a piece written by one of its journalists''The Guardian'', April 13, 2010P ...

. He lives in Salt Lake City, Utah.

References

External links

*https://www.ronetempest.com/
Wyofile.comMediabistro.com
American male journalists Los Angeles Times people Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting winners Living people University of California, Berkeley alumni University of California, Berkeley faculty Year of birth missing (living people) Place of birth missing (living people) People from Lander, Wyoming People from Bellevue, Nebraska People from Sarpy County, Nebraska {{US-journalist-20thC-stub