Dennis Romero writes news and features




News and features:
Trump wears mask in public setting for the first time (NBC News, July 11, 2020)
Surfing confronts sport's racist past (NBC News, June 21, 2020)
YouTube thrives as a window for those isolated by coronavirus (NBC News, April 1, 2020)
California's cannabis black market has eclipsed its legal one (NBC News, Sept. 20, 2019)
Vintage roller coaster fans see familiar tech in Elon Musk's Loop tunnel (NBC News, Nov. 29, 2018)
Migrants met with fear, disdain in Tijuana, Mexico (NBC News, Nov. 17, 2018)
A Chicano renaissance? (NBC News, July 15, 2018)
A comedian’s Cholofit videos spoof gentrification (Washington Post, April 6, 2018)
Visiting Friendship Park in the Trump era (California Sunday Magazine, March 29, 2018)

Pop music coverage:
Johnny Depp, Alice Cooper and Co. Raise Dead (Rolling Stone, Sept. 2015)
Steve Aoki: The Neon Punk of EDM (LA Weekly cover, March, 2013)
Joris Voorn’s Life After Turntables (Village Voice, March, 2009).

Op-eds
The Oscars are less white, but where are Latinos? (Los Angeles Times, Jan., 2017)

Appearances and honors:
Appeared on E! News in 2019.
Op-ed contributor (2016 and 2017), Los Angeles Times. 
Appeared on BBC World Television in 2015.
Finalist for "online journalist of the year," award, L.A. Press Club, 2010, 2013 and 2014.
Featured in the book Best Sex Writing 2013.
Contributed to LA Weekly's 2012 Maggie-award-winning issue.
New Media Reporting instructor at UCLA Extension, fall 2011 and summer 2012.
Brief guest on CNN's Nancy Grace Aug. and Sept., 2010.
Received a New America Media award, part of the self-proclaimed "ethnic Pulitzers," for investigative reporting.
Participated in the Los Angeles Times' Pulitzer Prize-winning spot news coverage of the 1992 riots.

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