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Alexei Koseff

Capitol Reporter

Alexei Koseff covers Gov. Gavin Newsom, the Legislature and California government from Sacramento.

He joined CalMatters in January 2022 after previously reporting on the Capitol for The Sacramento Bee and the San Francisco Chronicle, where he broke the story of Newsom’s infamous dinner at The French Laundry restaurant. He has written about California politics and government for more than a decade, twice winning the Sacramento Press Club award for best daily Capitol beat reporting.

Alexei aims to help readers better understand how their government is serving them. For CalMatters, he has traveled to all corners of California to dig into stories that explore how state policy is truly working — covering a backlash against progressive politics in Huntington Beach, the controversy over a homeless city councilmember in Ojai, a law enforcement team pioneering gun violence restraining orders in San Diego and efforts to rethink the 911 response to mental health calls in rural Nevada County. His coverage of how the collapse of California’s legal cannabis market has devastated the Emerald Triangle won a 2024 Best of the West award for business and financial reporting.

A native of the Bay Area, Alexei is the proud product of bilingual education. He attended Stanford University, where he graduated with degrees in American Studies and journalism.

Other languages spoken: Spanish (fluent)

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People show support for three statewide initiatives: schools to notify parents when their child requests to be treated as transgender, preventing biological boys competing against biological girls and prevent sterilization of children, at a press conference at the state Capitol in Sacramento on Aug. 28, 2023. Photo by Rahul Lal for CalMatters
An ambulance owned by the private company American Medical Response at Natividad Hospital in Salinas. Photo by Vern Fisher, Monterey Herald via Bay Area News Group
Bonnie Metcalf meditates at her Sacramento home on July 20, 2023. Metcalf suffers from sarcoidosis, an inflammatory disease, and takes cannabis products to ease the pain. Photo by Rahul Lal for CalMatters

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