BIO:
Rick Reiff is executive editor of the Orange County Business Journal, California's second largest business weekly, and author of its popular "OC Insider" column.
He is also the host and executive producer of the weekly "Inside OC" program on KOCE-TV, the nation's sixth-most watched public television station.
In addition, he is a media and journalism professor at Chapman University, a media consultant and a public speaker.
Reiff has received a Pulitzer Prize and a Golden Mike Award, distinguishing him in both print and broadcast journalism.
He was a staff writer with Forbes magazine and a reporter at the Akron (Ohio) Beacon Journal, where he was the lead reporter on a team that won a 1987 Pulitzer Prize for its coverage of Goodyear's battle with a corporate raider.
Reiff is a native of Chicago and a graduate of the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University.
He is a director of the Orange County Press Club and a preliminary judge for the annual Gerald Loeb Awards in business journalism. He has performed in seven of the annual CHOC Follies benefiting Children’s Hospital of Orange County.
Rick is married to Mary Ann Brown, senior vice president of Pacific Life Insurance Co. He has a daughter, Jennie; a son-in-law, OC Fire Authority Capt. Steve Miller; and a grandson, Elias Miller.
Updated March 7, 2008
