Melanie Mason

Melanie Mason is a senior political reporter with Politico California, based in Los Angeles. Before joining Politico last year, she worked for 12 years at the Los Angeles Times. She covered money and politics out of the Times’ Washington bureau and spent nearly six years in Sacramento, where she wrote about state government and politics and produced award-winning coverage of sexual harassment in California politics. She has also covered four presidential races, the 2018 California governor’s race, and numerous congressional campaigns. She is a graduate of Georgetown University and the University of California, Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism.