Rone Tempest
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, he shared the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting, for its coverage of the Old Fire, a wildfire in October 2003.[http://www.pulitzer.org/archives/6764 "Mountain Resorts Under Siege"]. The Los Angeles Times. October 30, 2003. Reprint at The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved 2013-10-26.[http://www.pulitzer.org/works/2004-Breaking-News-Reporting "The 2004 Pulitzer Prize Winners: Breaking News Reporting"]. The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved 2013-10-26. He is a frequent contributor to the nonprofit Wyoming news site [https://www.wyofile.com/ wyofile.com] that he cofounded with Christopher Findlater in 2008. In 2018 he joined the board of the non-profit [http://utahinvestigative.org/aboutus/ Utah Investigative Journalism Project] for which he contributes occasional [https://www.sltrib.com/news/2018/05/16/former-daggett-county-jail-inmates-tortured-with-police-dogs-and-tasers-sue-saying-they-hope-a-lawsuit-will-bring-change-to-how-prisoners-are-treated/ articles] to the [https://www.sltrib.com/ Salt Lake Tribune.] He is the author of the nonfiction books [https://www.amazon.com/Last-Western-Unjustified-Killing-Cantrell-ebook/dp/B08D75RFN7 "The Last Western"] and [https://www.amazon.com/stores/Rone-Tempest/author/B08F2QNFGQ?ref=ap_rdr&store_ref=ap_rdr&isDramIntegrated=true&shoppingPortalEnabled=true "Two Elk Saga: How Man's Dream Became State, Federal Nightmare"]
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 and from 2007 to 2010 consultant to ProPublica.{{cite web|date=|title=Home | Donate to the Daily Californian|url=http://alumni.dailycal.org/article/5/alumni_span_decades_and_continents_after_daily_cal|publisher=Alumni.dailycal.org|accessdate=2013-10-26}}{{cite web |url=http://journalism.berkeley.edu/program/international/faculty/ |title=International Reporting Faculty - Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism |publisher=Journalism.berkeley.edu |accessdate=2013-10-26 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131029210850/http://journalism.berkeley.edu/program/international/faculty/ |archivedate=2013-10-29 }}
He lives in Salt Lake City, Utah.{{cite web |url=http://wyofile.com/about-2/ |title=About WyoFile |publisher=wyofile.com |date=2009-05-18 |accessdate=2013-10-26 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131029195851/http://wyofile.com/about-2/ |archivedate=2013-10-29 }}
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External links
- https://www.ronetempest.com/
- [http://wyofile.com/author/rtempest/ Wyofile.com]
- [http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlla/lat-farewells-rone-tempest_b4176 Mediabistro.com]
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