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Los Angeles Times reporter Rong-Gong Lin II

Rong-Gong Lin II

Staff Writer

Rong-Gong Lin II is a reporter for the Los Angeles Times based in San Francisco who specializes in covering statewide earthquake safety issues and other natural disasters, public health and extreme weather. He was a member of the reporting teams that won the Pulitzer Prize for breaking news in 2016 and were finalists in 2015 and 2024. Lin won the California Newspaper Publishers Assn.’s Freedom of Information Award and the University of Florida’s Joseph L. Brechner Freedom of Information Award. He was a finalist for the Ursula and Gilbert Farfel Prize for Excellence in Investigative Reporting, the Knight Award for Public Service and a Gerald Loeb Award. A San Francisco area native, he graduated from UC Berkeley in 2004, and lived in the San Gabriel Valley for more than a decade before returning to the Bay Area.

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