Rone Tempest
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Rone Tempest is an American journalist
Journalist
A journalist collects and distributes news and other information. A journalist's work is referred to as journalism.A reporter is a type of journalist who researchs, writes, and reports on information to be presented in mass media, including print media , electronic media , and digital media A...

, investigative reporter for www.wyofile.com, and consultant to the ProPublica
ProPublica
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He won a 1997 Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting
Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting
The Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting is an award for journalists administered by the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard University. The program was launched in 1991, with the goal of exposing examples of poor government, and encouraging good...

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He won a 2004 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting
Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting
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Life

He graduated from at the University of California, Berkeley
University of California, Berkeley
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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.
He was visiting lecturer at the University of California, Berkeley
University of California, Berkeley
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, from 1999 to 2007.

He lives in Lander, Wyoming
Lander, Wyoming
Lander is a city in, and the county seat of, Fremont County, Wyoming, United States. Named for transcontinental explorer Frederick W. Lander, Lander is located in central Wyoming, along the Middle Fork of the Popo Agie River. A tourism center with several dude ranches nearby, Lander is located just...

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External links

  • http://wyofile.com/author/rtempest/
  • http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlla/lat-farewells-rone-tempest_b4176
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