Hello everyone,
We look forward to sharing Laurel Rosenhall’s joining the National as a correspondent covering California politics.
Laurel will be coming from the Los Angeles Times, California’s political editor since last year and director of Sacramento since 2022. She leads coverage of the Capitol Scuby and the supervised journalist Scoopy, and is under supervision in Louisiana and Washington. Reporters on her team received the Darksen Award from the National Press Foundation for reporting by Senator Diane Feinstein.
From 2015 to 2021, Laurel was a political reporter for Calmatters, growing publications from lesser-known startups to trusted sources of in-depth news in California. In 2020, she was included on the Washington Post’s list of outstanding state political reporters and was named Journalist of the Year in 2021 by the Sacramento Press Club. Before that, she had cut her teeth for 13 years with the California State Capitol and Sacramento bee covering the education.
She challenged Senator Feinstein during the California pandemic by writing elegant profiles of California political players like California Legislature chairs Robert Rivas and Kevin De Leon. I wrote an elegant profile of a California politician. Laurel is also known for his mastery of policy in the state (and therefore made a guest turn in today’s California newsletter in 2019 on whether the state can reduce police shootings).
Sean Hubler, who edited Laurel in Karmatz, wrote: My favorite thing about her is the authentic care she brings to the job of describing this state, where she grew up and where she raises her family. She came from here. She has skin in the game. ”
Give her a warm welcome.
– Gia Lynn and Kevin
