Dennis Romero is a staff writer and news blogger for LA Weekly. In 2008 he wrapped up a three-year stint as the sole staff writer at Ciudad magazine, an upscale glossy from the folks behind Los Angeles magazine and Texas Monthly.
Romero was born and raised in San Diego. His father was the Mexico correspondent for the San Diego Tribune and later the Union-Tribune; the elder Romero went on to become an editor at the Los Angeles Times before returning to San Diego.
In 1989 Dennis Romero started stringing for the Los Angeles Times’ Westside section, covering Santa Monica and Beverly Hills city council meetings. A few years later he became the New York Times “campus correspondent” at UCLA, where he earned a bachelor’s degree in political science. In 1992, fresh off an internship at the Los Angeles Times, and while still in school, Romero became a frequent contributor to the paper’s features and entertainment sections. On April 29, 1992, as the not-guilty verdicts in the Rodney King beating trial were announced, Romero happened to be in the Times’ third-floor newsroom in downtown Los Angeles. As civil unrest erupted, he was dispatched to help cover some of the less-affected areas of town. For its coverage of the riots, the Times won the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for spot news reporting.
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