Laura Bliss is a journalist and writer based in San Francisco. She writes and edits stories about climate, science, cities, and more at Bloomberg Businessweek. She was a finalist for the 2024 Pulitzer Prize in Explanatory Reporting as part of the Bloomberg team behind WATER GRAB, a series of stories revealing actors profiting off public water sources globally. Her contribution investigated private equity’s takeover of bottled spring water. You can learn more about Laura Bliss here.
She was the host of Bedrock, USA, a podcast about political extremism in local government that was a finalist for a Webby Award. At Mesa, Laura worked on a book about communities around the world that have rebuilt in the wake of catastrophic fire, tracing the history of the science of fire — and the mystery of it — and how societies have fought or learned to live with it.