Newsroom Staff

ARIZONA CAPITOL TIMES EDITORS:

Luige del Puerto
Arizona News Service Editor
ldelpuerto@azcapitoltimes.com
602-889-7131
@LdelPuerto on Twitter
An award-winning journalist, Luige covers state politics and oversees the newsroom of the Arizona Capitol Times. In addition, he edits the Yellow Sheet Report and the Legislative Report, Arizona’s premier political tipsheets. He is a native of the Philippines and previously worked in Manila for the nation’s largest daily newspaper, The Philippine Daily Inquirer. At the Inquirer, he covered crime, labor, elections and national security. He was also part of the paper’s special projects team and covered several coup d’état attempts in his home country before moving to the United States in 2006. Luige graduated with honors from the school of journalism at the University of Philippines. He joined the Arizona Capitol Times shortly after moving to Arizona. He has won numerous local and national awards in the U.S. for his reporting about politics, including earning first place for politics and government reporting in the Arizona Press Club’s annual contest.

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Gary Grado
Managing Editor
ggrado@azcapitoltimes.com
602-889-7111
@geegra on Twitter
Gary has been a journalist since 1994 and worked at two other newspapers in the Valley before joining the Arizona Capitol Times in 2010. Gary, a Valley resident since 1988, spent 13 years at the Pulitzer Prize-winning East Valley Tribune, where he covered courts, public safety and municipal government. He won third place for Best News Story in the 2008 Arizona Newspapers Association Better Newspapers Contest for a story about a jailhouse interview with a mass murderer, and he also contributed to other award-winning stories throughout the years. At the Chandler Independent, he covered municipal government for three years. Gary covers courts and county government for the Capitol Times. He is a graduate of Arizona State University’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication.

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Don Harris
Copy Editor
dharris@azcapitoltimes.com
602-889-7136
Don joined Arizona Capitol Times as copy editor/reporter in 2001, capping a journalism career that began in Chicago. Immediately prior to his service with the Capitol Times, for nearly nine years Don was a public information officer for state of Arizona agencies, first with the Department of Commerce and then the Department of Insurance. Don also covered politics, organized labor and general assignments at The Arizona Republic for 19 years, periodically serving as an assistant city editor. At The Republic, Don covered the Arizona House of Representatives for 10 years, as well as five national political conventions and most major political races. Political figures he covered extensively include Barry Goldwater, Bruce Babbitt, Burton Barr, Evan Mecham, and Rose Mofford. He received several journalism awards in Arizona and Chicago. Don, his wife and their three children moved to Arizona from Chicago in 1973, after having been a reporter for the Chicago Today/Chicago American for a number of years.

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Jeremy Duda
Yellow Sheet Report Editor
jduda@azcapitoltimes.com
602-889-7146
@JeremyDuda on Twitter
Jeremy previously covered the governor’s office for the Arizona Capitol Times. A Phoenix native, he graduated from the University of Arizona in 2002 with a degree in journalism. After starting as a sports writer at the Hobbs (New Mexico) News-Sun, he moved to the news desk, where he covered city government and cops. From New Mexico, he moved to Provo, Utah, where he covered courts and cops for the Daily Herald. He has won numerous awards in Arizona, New Mexico and Utah, including the Society of Professional Journalists 2007 award for best reporter at a mid-sized Utah daily newspaper. He recently published a book, If This Be Treason.

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ARIZONA CAPITOL TIMES REPORTERS:

Rachel Leingang
Governor’s Office Reporter
rleingang@azcapitoltimes.com
602-889-7143
@rachelleingang on Twitter
In addition to the governor’s beat, Rachel covers the Corporation Commission and energy/environmental issues for the Arizona Capitol Times. Originally from North Dakota, Rachel earned a bachelor’s degree in journalism and international studies from Minnesota State University-Moorhead, where she headed the school’s student newspaper. After graduation, she worked with AmeriCorps to build mentoring and service-learning programs for minority college students in Washington state. She then got a master’s degree in mass communications at Arizona State University’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication, where she worked for the school’s wire service, Cronkite News. She interned at ABC15 in Phoenix and was a fellow with the News21 program at Cronkite. After graduation, she covered city and county government for the Rochester Post-Bulletin in Rochester, Minn., before returning to Phoenix.

Beat Assignments:
• Governor’s Office
• Arizona Corporation Commission
• Energy issues
• Water
• Health

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Katie Campbell
Reporter
kcampbell@azcapitoltimes.com
602-889-7133
@_KECampbell on Twitter
Katie covers the courts and education for the Arizona Capitol Times. A Florida native, Katie earned a bachelor’s degree in journalism and minored in international relations at the University of Florida. She led the digital team as an editor and breaking news reporter at WUFT News, the university’s NPR and PBS affiliate, and delivered hourly news briefs during All Things Considered. After graduation, she moved to Arizona as an investigative reporting fellow with News21 at Arizona State University’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication. She later interned with Chicago magazine before returning to Arizona to cover Pinal County courts, immigration and politics during the 2016 election for The Casa Grande Dispatch.

Beat Assignments:
• Education
• Courts
• Immigration
• Public Safety

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Ben Giles
Reporter
bgiles@azcapitoltimes.com
602-889-7132
@ben_giles on Twitter
Ben covers the Arizona Senate for the Arizona Capitol Times. A Maryland native, Ben graduated from Virginia Wesleyan College in 2009, before attending the Philip Merrill College of Journalism at the University of Maryland, where he earned a master’s degree in journalism while freelancing for local newspapers and interning at Comcast SportsNet Mid-Atlantic. Ben moved to Phoenix in 2010 to work for News21 at Arizona State University, then returned to the Washington, D.C., region that fall to work at The Washington Examiner, where he spent more than two years as a local reporter covering county governments, the Maryland General Assembly, crime and courts.

Beat Assignments:
• State Senate

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