Rone Tempest


Rone Tempest is an American journalist, investigative reporter for www.wyofile.com, and from 2007-2010 consultant to ProPublica.
He won a 1997 Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting.
Working for the Los Angeles Times, he shared the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting, for its coverage of the Old Fire, a wildfire in October 2003. In 2018 he joined the board of the non-profit for which he contributes occasional to the He is the author of the 2014 ebook published by press.

Life

He graduated from the University of California, Berkeley. 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 University of California, Berkeley, from 1999 to 2007.
He lives in Salt Lake City, Utah.