Gabriel San Román joined the news organization in 2021 as a feature writer for TimesOC, a Times Community News publication, and worked from 2022-24 as a Metro reporter covering Orange County for the Los Angeles Times. He previously worked at OC Weekly – as a reporter, podcast producer and columnist – until the newspaper’s closing in late 2019. In 2023, San Román was part of the breaking news reporting team that was a Pulitzer finalist for its coverage of the Lunar New Year mass shooting in Monterey Park. He also may just be the tallest Mexican in O.C.
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