Melanie Mason is a former political correspondent for the Los Angeles Times. She first began working for The Times in 2011 in Washington, D.C., covering money and politics. She then moved to the Sacramento bureau, where she wrote about state government, politics and the 2018 governor’s race and produced award-winning coverage of sexual harassment in California politics. She currently works as a senior political reporter with Politico California, based in Los Angeles. She is originally from Los Angeles and is a graduate of Georgetown University and the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism.