Ashley Powers

Miami, FL USA
Website: www.ashleypowers.net

Professional Experience

A former L.A. Times national correspondent, I've written longform features about clergy sex abuse and the human toll of the Great Recession, and covered politics, mass shootings, wildfires and other breaking news. Clips: www.ashleypowers.net

Total Media Industry Experience

10 Years

Other Work History

I was a staff writer at the Los Angeles Times for 10 years.

Awards

My work has been honored by the Society for Features Journalism, Best of the West and the Los Angeles Press Club and cited in "The Best American Sports Writing." I was also a fellow at Columbia University’s Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma.

General

See more of my work here
(1/19/2026)
L.A. priest gets second chance in Texas
(Los Angeles Times 12/30/2013)
Disgraced Father John met a bishop willing to take him in. A Texas town paid the price.
The dream dies in Vegas
(Los Angeles Times 9/6/2009)
Four transplants found opportunity in a booming city. Then the recession took it away.
Hostage to their pimps
(Los Angeles Times 10/6/2011)
Las Vegas social worker Marisela Quintero tries to help girls who have all but sold their souls to pimps.
An idle plant, an empty town
(Los Angeles Times 3/29/2011)
The quarry in Empire, Nev., supplied materials for the housing industry, and a heart for the tiny town.
Rural Nevada fuming at 'Harry'
(Los Angeles Times 10/16/2010)
Backyard issues can make or break Nevada politicians, and this time an incumbent senator is in trouble.
End of the road for the shoe tree
(Los Angeles Times 2/16/2011)
On the "Loneliest Road in America," locals mourn a stately cottonwood like an old friend.
High-stakes stumping
(Los Angeles Times 2/3/2012)
In Nevada, GOP presidential candidates tread a fine line between voters and vice.
These days, not even sex sells
(Los Angeles Times 11/4/2008)
At Donna's Ranch, a brothel in Wells, Nev., the ailing economy has taken the work away from the working girls.