Rick Reiff, hopefully our OC correspondent

Probably you all knew this, but it slipped our feeble mind. After posting an item about the possibility that the Orange County Register was going tabloid, the thought occurred that there was a former BJ type around there who might know a little more.

Finally after a couple of days pondering, the name Rick Reiff popped into our head. You have probably "been there,done that" but I had to google to find http://www.rickreiff.com/

There was a photo of a little older looking, but still distinguished, Reiff we now remember.

Be sure to check out this 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.

Email was sent to Reiff to ask what he knows about the tabloid. If you want to get in touch, it is:
rick@rickreiff.com