Capitol Weekly’s Top 100: Taryn Luna

98. Taryn Luna

No conversation about who might be the best reporter covering the Capitol is complete without mentioning Los Angeles Times reporter Taryn Luna. With her scoops, insightful analysis and obvious deep sourcing, Luna is widely respected both inside the building and out. She joined the Sacramento press corps in 2016 when she started at the Sacramento Bee’s Capitol bureau, covering the legislature and lobbying, after stints on the East Coast with the Boston Globe and the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. She moved to the Times 
in 2018, where she’s been covering Gov. Newsom 
and California politics in Sacramento ever since. 
In that role, Luna is a master of her beat, kicking out thoughtful, smart stories at a near-daily clip. Her profile of First Partner Jennifer Siebel Newsom is legendary, and her portfolio of must-read work is the kind of sharp, on-point reporting every Capitol scribe should aspire to. All due props also to her boss Laurel Rosenhall, the LAT Capitol bureau chief who oversees one heck of a team.