Kenneth R. Weiss (born May 28, 1957) is aninvestigative journalist for theLos Angeles Times.^[1]

Weiss was born inCovina, California, and he graduated fromUniversity of California, Berkeley in 1981 with a B.A. in Folklore.^[2] There he was editor-in-chief for the college newspaper,The Daily Californian, during his senior year.^[2]

Weiss, reporterUsha Lee McFarling, and photographerRick Loomis of theL.A. Times shared thePulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting in 2007, citing "their richly portrayed reports on the world's distressed oceans, telling the story in print and online, and stirring reaction among readers and officials."^[2]

• 2006George Polk Award
• 2007Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting^[2][3]
• 2007 Grantham Prize Winner^[4]
• 2007Carl Sagan Award for Public Understanding of Science

• "Fish Farms Become Feedlots of the Sea",The Los Angeles Times, KENNETH R WEISS, 9 December 2002
• "Bush to Protect Island Waters ",The Los Angeles Times, June 15, 2006
• "Cruise Line Pollution Prompts Legislation",The Los Angeles Times, KENNETH R WEISS, 18 August 2003
• "The rise of slime",The New Internationalist, January 2007, Issue 397
• "Beyond 7 billion""Five Part Series on Challenges Posed by Rising World Population]The Los Angeles Times, KENNETH R WEISS, 22 July 2012

• "How Journalists Work with Ken Weiss and John Vande Wege",USCAnnenberg, November 13, 2007
• Pulitzer Winner Ken Weiss at UCSB (2007) atUniversity of California, Santa Barbara

• American male journalists
• Los Angeles Times people
• Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Journalism winners
• George Polk Award recipients
• UC Berkeley College of Letters and Science alumni
• Living people
• 1957 births

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