Newsroom Staff: Lauren Roth

Virginia Beach education reporter

Office phone: 757-222-5133

Lauren Roth covers Virginia Beach schools, both public and private.

Lauren has been covering schools for the Pilot since November 2005. A New Hampshire native, she covered town government and police for her hometown paper, The Telegraph. She has also covered police news for Times Leader in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, and education at the Scranton Times-Tribune in Pennsylvania. (Yes, Scranton of “The Office” fame).

Lauren graduated from Northwestern University in 2000 with bachelor’s and master’s degrees in journalism, and spent a three-month residency in Ireland writing for the now-defunct Magill news magazine.

She got married in July 2006 and lives in Norfolk with her husband and son.