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 the host and executive producer of "SoCal Insider with Rick Reiff" on PBS SoCal (KOCE-TV), the Los Angeles region’s PBS flagship.
In addition, he is a media and journalism professor at Chapman University 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.
Rick is married to Mary Ann Brown, executive vice president of Pacific Life Insurance Co. He has a daughter, Jennie Reiff; a son-in-law, OC Fire Authority Capt. Steve Miller; and three Miller grandchildren, Elias, Anna and Oliver.
Updated January 1, 2012
