Monte Morin is assistant managing editor for news and oversees the Fast Break Desk. Previously, he lead the newsroom’s Environment, Health and Science team and has held a variety of editing and reporting roles focusing on drought, climate change, science, health, war, crime, courts and transportation. He helped direct The Times’ Pulitzer Prize-winning coverage of the 2015 San Bernardino terror attack and shared the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for coverage of Southern California wildfires. As a former Stars and Stripes correspondent, he reported on combat operations in Iraq, Afghanistan and the Horn of Africa. A native of New England, Morin attended the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and was a medic in the U.S. Army Reserve.
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