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Ben Oreskes.

Benjamin Oreskes

Benjamin Oreskes is a former staff writer for the Los Angeles Times. He covered state and national politics, City Hall, homelessness and wrote the Essential California newsletter. Before coming to The Times in February 2017, he covered foreign policy at Politico in Washington, D.C.

Oreskes and his colleagues won the 2023 Pulitzer Prize in breaking news for reporting on a leaked audio recording that upended Los Angeles politics. He was also part of a team of reporters awarded the 2023 Everett McKinley Dirksen Award for Distinguished Reporting of Congress for coverage of Sen. Dianne Feinstein. In 2021, the Los Angeles Press Club named him print journalist of the year honoring “his on-the-ground reporting of various homelessness issues during the pandemic.”

A native New Yorker, Oreskes graduated from Northwestern University.

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