Chicago
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Orange County, California
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He is co-host of ''Studio SoCal'', a weekly public affairs program on PBS SoCal
KOCE-TV
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, the PBS flagship in the Los Angeles media market. 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
The ''Orange County Business Journal'' is a weekly print and online newspaper covering business in Orange County, California. The paper is the second largest business journal in California after the ''Los Angeles Business Journal''.North Side to parents of German and Italian ethnicity. He graduated from the city's
Lane Tech High School
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in 1970. He earned a bachelor's degree from the
Medill School of Journalism
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at
Northwestern University
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Akron Beacon Journal
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'' in 1975. In 1986 he was the lead reporter for the paper's coverage of the battle between
Goodyear Tire
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and
corporate raid
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Pulitzer Prize for General News Reporting
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Reiff joined
American City Business Journals
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later in 1987, where he served as managing editor of ''Business First'' in
Columbus, Ohio
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l; and editor of the ''Westchester'' (N.Y.) ''Business Journal''. In 1988 he joined the staff of ''
Forbes
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'' magazine. In 1990 he became editor of the ''Orange County Business Journal''.
Awards
In 2001 Reiff received a
Golden Mike Award
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for Best Original News Commentary from the Radio and TV News Association of Southern California. ''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.