Margot Roosevelt is an American journalist. She covers the Southern California economy for the Orange County Register and Los Angeles Register. Before that, she wrote for The Washington Post, then for TIME, for the Los Angeles Times from 2007 to 2011 and for Reuters on the 2012 Presidential election. Besides the economy, her fields have included foreign affairs, US Congress, and the environment, including climate change and air pollution. She is a fellow of the University of Southern California's Los Angeles Institute for the Humanities.