Rick Reiff

Richard "Rick" Reiff (b. May 30, 1952 in Chicago) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist based in Orange County, California.

He is co-host of Studio SoCal, a weekly public affairs program on PBS SoCal KOCE-TV, the PBS flagship in the Los Angeles media market.[1] He previously produced and hosted the station's SoCaL Insider with Rick Reiff and Inside OC with Rick Reiff for ten seasons. He is an editor-at-large and former editor of the Orange County Business Journal, a California business weekly. For that publication, he authored its OC Insider column for 15 years.

Early life and education

Reiff was born on Chicago's North Side to parents of German and Italian ethnicity. He graduated from the city's Lane Tech High School in 1970. He earned a bachelor's degree from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University in 1974.

Career

He spent a year at the Norwalk (Ohio) Reflector before joining the Akron Beacon Journal in 1975. In 1986 he was the lead reporter for the paper's coverage of the battle between Goodyear Tire and corporate raider James "Jimmy" Goldsmith, which received the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for General News Reporting.[2][3][4][5]

Reiff joined American City Business Journals later in 1987, where he served as managing editor of Business First in Columbus, Ohiol; and editor of the Westchester (N.Y.) Business Journal. In 1988 he joined the staff of Forbes magazine. In 1990 he became editor of the Orange County Business Journal.

Awards

In 2001 Reiff received a Golden Mike Award for Best Original News Commentary from the Radio and TV News Association of Southern California.[6] Inside OC won the Golden Mike for Best News Public Affairs Program in Southern California, Division B, in 2011 and its successor SoCal Insider won the same award in 2012 and 2013.[7]

References

  1. ^ "PBS SoCal | Your Home for PBS in Southern California". PBS SoCal. Retrieved 2022-09-30.
  2. ^ "WINNERS OF PULITZER PRIZES IN JOURNALISM, LETTERS AND THE ARTS". New York Times. 9 April 1987. GENERAL NEWS REPORTING The Akron Beacon Journal: The Beacon Journal's staff of reporters, artists, photographers and editors won for coverage of a hostile attempt to take over the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company. Articles on the takeover attempt culminated in an eight-page piece on Nov. 30, The Goodyear War, on the battle between the tire company and the British financier, Sir James Goldsmith. The breakup of Goodyear would have threatened Akron's financial and social fabric.
  3. ^ "Award Recipients: Pulitzer Prizes". Medill Northwestern University. Archived from the original on 9 June 2011. Melissa Johnson (BSJ81), Richard Reiff (BSJ74) and Douglas Oplinger (MSJ77) won in 1987 for General News Reporting for the Akron Beacon-Journal series about the attempted hostile takeover of Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co.
  4. ^ "Pulitzer Prizes". Archived from the original on 2011-06-09. Retrieved 2009-09-16.
  5. ^ Winning Pulitzers. Columbia University Press. ISBN 978-0-231-51761-4.
  6. ^ "Golden Mike Award Winners". Radio and TV News Association of Southern California. Archived from the original on 2015-09-24. Retrieved 2009-09-29.
  7. ^ VENEZIA, BARBARA (May 3, 2018). "Column: Columnist Rick Reiff and professor Bud Little deserve OC Press Club's highest honors". Los Angeles Times.

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