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Stuart Leavenworth

Stuart Leavenworth is the former Sacramento-based state editor for the Los Angeles Times. His 2025-26 stint was his second time in this role, having previously supervised state enterprise coverage from 2019 to 2022. During that period, he helped edit award-winning investigations of abandoned oil wells in Southern California, the die-off of gray whales and the lethal toll of heat waves. Prior to returning to California this year, he was climate policy editor for the Washington Post. Earlier in his career, he was McClatchy’s Beijing bureau chief and national correspondent in Washington, and also served as a reporter and editor for the Sacramento Bee. A native of Fresno and graduate from UC Santa Cruz and Columbia University, Leavenworth once worked as a chef apprentice in the Bay Area, perfecting his knife skills — good training for an editor.

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