Steven M. Lopez (born 1953) is an American journalist and four-time Pulitzer Prize finalist who has been a columnist for The Los Angeles Times since 2001.
In addition, he was on staff at The Philadelphia Inquirer, the San Jose Mercury News and the Oakland Tribune.
As a four-time Pulitzer finalist, his subjects were elder care, income inequality, homelessness and the California housing crisis.
Lopez has also won three local news Emmys and a share of the Columbia DuPont Award for his civic affairs reporting at KCET-TV in Los Angeles.
[6] On April 29, 2011, Lopez received an honorary doctorate degree from his alma mater, San Jose State University.