The Los Angeles Times has appointed Laurel Rosenhall to the post of Sacramento bureau chief. She joined the Times in 2021 as an editorial writer to cover California politics and policy as a member of the LA Times editorial board.
Previously, Rosenhall was a founding reporter covering politics at the nonprofit digital news venture CalMatters. She worked at The Sacramento Bee for more than 12 years and was an editorial assistant at the San Francisco Chronicle.
She was named Journalist of the Year by the Sacramento Press Club in 2021 and was included on The Washington Post’s list of outstanding state politics reporters in 2020.
She also received a National Headliner Award for online beat coverage and an enterprise reporting award from the California News Publishers Association.
Rosenhall has a B.A. from Evergreen State College and a master’s degree from the University of California’s Graduate School of Journalism at Berkeley.
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