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Richard Read

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Seattle
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Covers:  Breaking news, enterprise, features in Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, Alaska and Hawaii.
Still freelancing, after 40 years as a reporter for the Los Angeles Times, The Oregonian and other publications far and wide. *d1eef58f
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Richard Read’s Biography

Rich is the Seattle Bureau Chief for the Los Angeles Times.

A two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, Rich is a former foreign correspondent who reported in more than 60 countries for The Oregonian newspaper.

Rich won the 1999 Pulitzer for Explanatory Reporting for a series that explained Asia's financial crisis by following a container of french fries from a Northwest farm to a McDonald's in Singapore. He and three other reporters won The Oregonian the 2001 Public Service Pulitzer for exposing abuses by U.S. immigration officials.

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