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Draft:Soumya Karlamangla

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Soumya Karlamangla is a Pulitzer Prize-winning health reporter. As of 2023, she was the lead writer for California Today, a publication of The New York Times.[1]

Raised in Thousand Oaks, California, Karlamangla received degrees in biology and English literature from the University of California, Berkeley.[2]

As a freshman at UC Berkeley, Karlamangla joined the Daily Cal staff in 2010 and went on to cover primarily city news on both the local schools and environment beats, later becoming a city news editor. After graduating in 2013, she joined the L.A. Times staff in September of that year, where she has worked as a public health reporter.[3]

Karlamangla previously "worked for the Oregonian, San Francisco Chronicle, The Nation magazine in D.C., and Thomson Reuters in London."[2]

In April 2016, Karlamangla was one of a group who won a Pulitzer Prize for breaking news reporting "as part of the Los Angeles Times staff who covered the December San Bernardino, California, shooting and subsequent terrorism investigation".[3] Following the shooting, Karlamangla was assigned to interview "mourning families who had lost parents and siblings in the attack".[3]

References

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  1. ^ "Soumya Karlamangla Joining The Times as Lead Writer for California Today". The New York Times Company. June 8, 2021.
  2. ^ a b "Soumya Karlamangla - Baltimore Sun". baltimoresun.com.
  3. ^ a b c Platten, Andrea (April 18, 2016). "2 Daily Californian alumni, Berkeley resident win Pulitzer Prizes". Daily Californian.


Category:Date of birth missing (living people) Category:Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting winners


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