Rosanna Xia is an environmental reporter for the Los Angeles Times, where she specializes in stories about the coast and ocean. She has been praised for her investigative reporting and narrative storytelling, and her breadth of work includes the award-winning book, “California Against the Sea,” as well as the highly anticipated feature documentary film, “Out of Plain Sight,” which she directed and produced.
Xia’s journalism has been celebrated across California for prompting new laws and regulations, and her coverage of a toxic dumpsite in the deep ocean has been anthologized in the “Best American Science and Nature Writing” series. In 2020, she was named a Pulitzer Prize finalist for her reporting on sea level rise.
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