Rone Tempest is a Salt Lake City, UT-based American author and investigative reporter.
Working for the Los Angeles Times, he shared the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting, for its coverage of the Old Fire, a wildfire in October 2003.
In 2018 he joined the board of the non-profit Utah Investigative Journalism Project for which he contributes occasional articles to the Salt Lake Tribune.
He is the author of the nonfiction books "The Last Western" and "Two Elk Saga: How Man's Dream Became State, Federal Nightmare" He graduated from the University of California, Berkeley.
He was a reporter for the Los Angeles Times, from 1976 to 2007 where he served as bureau chief in Houston, New Delhi, Paris, Beijing, Hong Kong and Sacramento.