List of Orange County Register Journalists and Reporters

1. Todd Harmonson

Author Bio Todd Harmonson is the Orange County Register's senior editor and one of the lead editors for the Southern California News Group. He is an award-winning journalist who spent much of his career in sports as a reporter and, later, as the Register's sports editor. Harmonson has been honored by the Associated Press Sports Editors and the Orange County Press Club for his column writing. Harmonson is the president and chairman of the board of the all-volunteer California Scholastic Press Association, which conducts one of the longest-running high school journalism workshops in the country. He was ind...ucted into Cal State Fullerton’s Communications Wall of Fame in 2017. He and his wife, Michelle, have three adult children.more
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2. Jakob Rodgers

Designation Senior Breaking News Reporter Author Bio Covering breaking news for @mercnews & @eastbaytimes. Formerly of @csgazette & @GreeleyTribune. DMs open. Message for Signal.
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3. Bill Kearney

Designation Author Author Bio Bill Kearney is a senior editor and reporter covering Florida’s bountiful environmental, outdoor and travel topics. Previously, he was the editor of American Way magazine, and has spearheaded environmental, travel and lifestyle content for nearly two decades. An avid outdoorsman, he spends as much time as possible exploring nature in Florida.
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4. Daniel Mccarthy

Designation Author Author Bio Editor of @ModAgeJournal, VP for at @ISI, columnist for @TheSpectator and Creators Syndicate.
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5. Hunter Lee

Designation Reporter Author Bio SoCal News Group Crime & Public Safety team
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6. Steve Scauzillo

Designation Author Author Bio Steve Scauzillo has been a journalist for more than 40 years, has worked as a beat reporter, assistant city editor, Opinion Pages Editor, general assignment and transportation/environment writer. Steve loves to explore the outdoors by hiking the Angeles National Forest and is an amateur bird watcher. Steve is on the board of the San Gabriel Valley LGBTQ Center in Arcadia and a member of Rose City Church in Pasadena. He's working on a screenplay in his spare time.
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7. Nollyanne Delacruz

Designation Intern Author Bio Nollyanne Delacruz started as a staff writer for The Gamut, the school newspaper at Oxford Academy in Cypress, California. After graduating high school, she was a freelance writer for Doorstep News, an online student-led news website and was published under the name Anne Delacruz. She currently works as the Editor-in-Chief of the Daily Titan, the student newspaper at Cal State Fullerton. She has served the last two years as assistant opinion editor, deputy opinion editor, opinion editor and news editor. She is also currently involved in the Cal State Fullerton chapter of the Asian American Jou...rnalists Association. She is also a 2023 Voices fellow with the Asian American Journalists Association. Her favorite stories have been about BTS, the Asian American community, and local city councils.more
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8. Emily Willingham

Author Bio Emily Willingham is a Marin science journalist, author and biologist. You can find her on Twitter @ejwillingham.
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9. Harry Harris

Designation Crime Reporter Author Bio Harry Harris is a Pulitzer Prize winning breaking news reporter for the Bay Area News Group. He began his Oakland Tribune career in September 1965 as a 17-year-old copyboy. He became a reporter in 1972 and is considered one of the best crime and breaking news reporters in the country. He has covered tens of thousands of murders and other crimes in the East Bay. He has also mentored dozens of young reporters, some of whom continue to work in journalism today.
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10. Laylan Connelly

Designation Reporter Author Bio Laylan Connelly started as a journalist in 2002 after earning a degree in journalism from the University of Southern California. Through the years, she has covered several cities for The Orange County Register, starting as a beat reporter in Irvine before focusing on coastal cities such as Newport Beach, Dana Point and Laguna Beach. In 2007, she was selected for a prestigious Knight New Media fellowship focusing on digital media at UC Berkeley, where she learned skills to adapt to the ever-changing online landscape. About the same time, she began covering the 42-miles of Orange County coastlin...e, focusing on lifestyle, environment, surf culture and anything having to do with the beach. Her coastal coverage now extends up the California coast into Long Beach and the South Bay.more
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11. Jim Radcliffe

Designation Author Author Bio Jim Radcliffe, who graduated from the University of Southern California in journalism, worked as a reporter at The Arizona Daily Star, the Los Angeles Herald Examiner and the Daily Breeze before joining The Orange County Register. He is now a public safety editor for the Register and the Southern California Newspaper Group and writes Honk, a Q&A transportation column.
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12. Jeff Horseman

Designation Author Author Bio Jeff Horseman grew up in Vermont and honed his interviewing skills as a supermarket cashier by asking Bernie Sanders “Paper or plastic?” After graduating from Syracuse University in 1999, Jeff began his journalistic odyssey at The Watertown Daily Times in upstate New York, where he impressed then-U.S. Senate candidate Hillary Clinton so much she called him “John” at the end of an interview. From there, he went to Annapolis, Maryland, where he covered city, county and state government at The Capital newspaper before love and the quest for snowless winters took him in 200...7 to Southern California, where he started out covering Temecula for The Press-Enterprise. Today, Jeff writes about Riverside County government and regional politics. Along the way, Jeff has covered wildfires, a tropical storm, 9/11 and the Dec. 2 terror attack in San Bernardino. If you have a question or story idea about politics or the inner workings of government, please let Jeff know.more
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13. Scooty Nickerson

Designation Author Author Bio Scooty Nickerson is a Bay Area News Group data reporter for The Mercury News and East Bay Times. Nickerson won a 2021 IRE award for an audio and digital series that investigated worker deaths from heat illness and was reported by Columbia Journalism Investigations and NPR. He received Master's degrees in Applied Social Data Science at the London School of Economics and in Investigative Journalism at Columbia Journalism School. He graduated from Tufts University with a BA degree in history.
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14. Kurt Snibbe

Designation Author Author Bio Kurt Snibbe is a visual journalist for Southern California News Group. Snibbe has won several medals in international graphics competitions and was a staff cartoonist for ESPN.com. Snibbe began with The Orange County Register in 1997, left in 2008 and returned in 2013.
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15. Sage Alexander

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16. Teri Sforza

Designation Author Author Bio Teri Sforza is one of the lead reporters on the OCR/SCNG probe of fraud, abuse and death in the Southern California addiction treatment industry. Our "Rehab Riviera" coverage won first place for investigative reporting from the California Newspaper Publishers Association, first place for projects reporting from Best of the West and is a finalist for the National Institute for Health Care Management Foundation's print award, competing with the New York Times, the Washington Post and ProPublica. Sforza birthed the Watchdog column for The Orange County Register in 2008, aiming to keep a... critical (but good-humored) eye on governments and nonprofits, large and small. It won first place for public service reporting from the California Newspaper Publishers Association in 2010. She also contributed to the OCR's Pulitzer Prize-winning investigation of fertility fraud at UC Irvine, covered what was then the largest municipal bankruptcy in America‘s history, and is the author of "The Strangest Song," the first book to tell the story of a genetic condition called Williams syndrome and the extraordinary musicality of many of the people who have it. She earned her M.F.A. from UCLA's School of Theater, Film and Television, and enjoys making documentaries, including the OCR's first: "The Boy Monk," a story that was also told as a series in print. Watchdogs need help: Point us to documents that can help tell stories that need to be told, and we'll do the restmore
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17. Clara Harter

Designation Author Author Bio Clara covers LAUSD for the LA Daily News in addition to writing about housing policy, homelessness and mental health. She formerly worked as the Torrance/Carson reporter for the Daily Breeze and as a city hall reporter for the Santa Monica Daily Press. She has a B.A. in Political Science and Middle Eastern Studies from Columbia University.
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18. Matthew Medsger

Designation Author Author Bio Matthew Medsger is a Boston Herald reporter covering politics and the State House, or anything else which may occur. Matthew also reported on the environment and science at the Nashua Telegraph and crime at the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. Matthew walked into a recruiter's office in Pittsburgh, on Sept. 12, 2001, was stationed in Massachusetts in 2003, and never managed to successfully leave. Matthew studied communications and philosophy at UMass Lowell and will argue with anyone, about anything, for free.
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19. Hans Gutknecht

Designation Author Author Bio Hans Gutknecht has been a photojournalist at the Los Angeles Daily News since 1992.
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20. Harriet Rowan

Designation Author Author Bio Data reporter for @mercnews and @eastbaytimes
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21. Lisa Jacobs

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22. Paul Bersebach

Designation Photojournalist Author Bio Paul Bersebach has been a news photographer for over 25 years after graduating from Ohio University’s School of Visual Communication. He started working his way up at newspapers in the Midwest before coming to The Orange County Register in 1999. Paul has been a photographer and photo editor at the Register for over 20 years.
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23. Jon Coupal

Designation Journalist Author Bio Jon Coupal is president of the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association.
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24. Larry Wilson

Designation Public Editor Author Bio Larry Wilson is a member of the Southern California News Group's editorial board, writing a twice-weekly column, and is public editor of the Pasadena Star-News, San Gabriel Valley Tribune and Whittier Daily News. For 12 years he was the editor of the Star-News, and prior to that its editorial page editor. He has been a professional journalist since age 19 when he became the rock music critic of The Daily Californian at UC Berkeley, a student newspaper he now sits on the Board of Directors of, and has worked at the Pasadena Guardian, the Pasadena Weekly, where he was founding business manager, ...and Rolling Stone Press. He is a co-founder, with the novelist Jervey Tervalon and the late food critic Jonathan Gold, of LitFest Pasadena.more
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25. Elliott Teaford

Designation Sports Reporter Author Bio Elliott Teaford covers the Los Angeles Chargers for the Orange County Register and the Southern California News Group. He covered the Anaheim Ducks for 19 seasons, including eight of the past 10 for SCNG. He covered their Stanley Cup championship team in 2006-07. He also covered the Lakers for five seasons, including their back-to-back NBA championships in 2008-09 and 2009-10, and the Clippers for one. He is a Long Beach State graduate.
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26. Flint McColgan

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27. Luca Evans

Designation Usc Reporter Author Bio Luca Evans covers USC athletics for the Southern California News Group. He previously covered high school sports and contributed to coverage of the Angels, Dodgers, Clippers, and sports enterprise for the Los Angeles Times. He discovered his love for journalism at Chapman University, where he served as sports editor and managing editor of the school's student newspaper.
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28. Art Wilson

Designation Journalist Author Bio Sports nut. Everything Texas Rangers, UCLA Bruins and Pittsburgh Steelers. Horse racing beat writer for Southern California News Group. Opinions solely mine.
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29. Josh Gross

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30. Dewayne Bevil

Designation Journalist Author Bio Dewayne Bevil is the theme parks and attractions reporter for the Orlando Sentinel.
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31. Don Stacom

Designation Reporter Author Bio Don R. Stacom is a reporter for the Hartford Courant.
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32. Roxana Kopetman

Designation Reporter Author Bio Roxana Kopetman is a staff writer at The Orange County Register.
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33. Aileen Wingblad

Designation Multimedia Journalist Author Bio Aileen Wingblad's main beat is Oakland County-related crime and court action at the district, state and federal levels. She also covers Michigan's marijuana industry and other stories of interest to readers.
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34. Robert Niles

Designation Theme Park Insider Reporter Author Bio Robert Niles is the founder and editor of ThemeParkInsider.com. Follow him on Twitter @ThemePark.
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35. Richard Guzman

Designation Author Author Bio Richard Guzman writes about music and pop culture. He has previously written for the El Paso Times, The Desert Sun in Palm Springs and was City Editor at Los Angeles Downtown News. He graduated from Cal State Northridge with a Bachelor in Journalism.
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36. Haley Sawyer

Designation Sports Reporter Author Bio Haley Sawyer covers UCLA and high school sports for the Southern California News Group. She’s a Los Angeles transplant who has lived most of her life in Pennsylvania, where she got her start covering Pittsburgh high school sports and college hockey. Sawyer graduated from Robert Morris University in 2015 with a B.A. in communication. When she's not writing, Haley is usually at a boxing gym, ballet studio or teaching journalism at Cal State Northridge.
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37. Tom Bray

Designation Senior Editor Author Bio Tom Bray is senior editor of Southern California's Los Angeles County properties, as well as managing editor for news content. Bray has been a journalist since he started covering high school sports in 1975. He's served as a reporter, copy editor, section editor and page designer. Bray was managing editor at The Press-Enterprise in Riverside, the News-Leader in Springfield, Mo, the Sun in San Bernardino and the Times-Delta in Visalia, Calif.
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38. Quinn Wilson

Designation Reporter Author Bio Quinn Wilson is a Missouri native who has bylines with the Riverfront Times, Sauce Magazine, Fox 2/KPLR 11, Fulton Sun and The Bakersfield Californian. He graduated from Fontbonne University in 2019.
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39. Linda Mcnamar

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40. Mindy Schauer

Designation Photographer Author Bio Mindy Schauer is an award-winning photojournalist for the Orange County Register. As a general-interest news photographer, she documents everyone and everything, from poverty in the hollows of West Virginia, to sports heroes and celebrities in Hollywood. She has covered Hurricane Andrew, California wildfires, Pope Francis, four presidents, and religious outreach in Rwanda — not to mention puppies, schoolkids and everyday life in her community. Mindy is a two-time Marine Corps Heritage Foundation award winner and ranks among the top photographers in the National Press Photographers Associ...ation’s Western Region each year. Mindy’s Pulitzer-nominated work documenting the life of a teen mom and her children hangs in the Clinton Presidential Library in Arkansas. And when Mindy’s own daughter, Jenna, was born, Mindy photographed the birth herself for a feature in the Register. Mindy is a graduate of the Arizona State University Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication. Before joining the Register, she worked at the Huntington (W.Va.) Herald-Dispatch, Los Angeles Times and Orlando Sentinel.more
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41. John Seiler

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42. Jackson Guilfoil

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43. Nova Blanco Rico

Designation Reporter Author Bio Nova Blanco-Rico covers local news in Corona, Norco, Lake Elsinore, Temecula, Menifee and Murrieta for the Southern California News Group. He received his Bachelor's degree in Journalism from California State University, Dominguez Hills. He interned at LA Magazine and EdSource covering community, education, features and race. He then worked at City News Service in Los Angeles as an editorial assistant. As an environmental reporter for CALÓ NEWs, he covered southern California's Latinx community.
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44. Michelle Herting

Designation Public Accountant Author Bio Michelle Herting is a CPA who specializes in trust and estate taxes. She established her firm in 1992. She has a special interest in gift and tax planning and is the president of the Charitable Gift Planners of Inland Southern California.
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45. Khobi Price

Designation Lakers Reporter Author Bio Khobi Price covers the Los Angeles Lakers for the Southern California News Group. He previously covered the Orlando Magic for the Orlando Sentinel. He was a sports reporter for the South Florida Sun Sentinel covering the University of Miami, the Miami Heat, Inter Miami CF and Florida Atlantic University football. He is a graduate of Northern Illinois University.
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46. Andrew Knoll

Designation Author Author Bio Hockey reporter for the L.A. Daily News. Formerly of The New York Times, ESPN, etc. Taught at Temple. Gaucho. Owl. The Imelda Marcos of sneakers.
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47. Lance Reynolds

Designation General Assignment Reporter Author Bio Lance Reynolds is a general assignment reporter for the Boston Herald. A Mansfield native, Lance launched his full-time reporting career at the Republican-American in Waterbury, Conn. He previously spent time on the Herald’s high school sports desk as a correspondent. Lance is an adventurer, highlighted by a trip to Ecuador and a semester abroad in Tanzania as a student at St. Michael’s College in northern Vermont.
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48. Kenneth R Gosselin

Designation Reporter Author Bio Kenneth R. Gosselin is a reporter for the Hartford Courant.
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49. Chris Weidner

Designation Author Author Bio Contact Chris Weidner at ****@gmail.com. Follow him on Instagram @christopherweidner and Twitter @cweidner8
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50. David Dickstein

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51. Anthony Man

Designation Author Author Bio Anthony Man is the Sun Sentinel's political writer. Concentrating on local political people, parties and trends, he also covers state and national politics from a South Florida perspective. He previously covered Palm Beach County government and made repeated reporting trips to Tallahassee. He has also covered state and local politics in Illinois.
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52. Bob Buttitta

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53. Aldo Toledo

Designation Peninsula Reporter Author Bio Adalberto Antonio Toledo | City Hall Reporter @sfchronicle | Proud @SFCGuild member | Venezolano ???????? | RTs are not endorsements 🙂
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54. Jeffrey Fletcher

Designation Author Author Bio Jeff Fletcher has covered the Angels since 2013. Before that, he spent 11 years covering the Giants and A's and working as a national baseball writer. Jeff is a Hall of Fame voter. In 2015, he was elected chairman of the Los Angeles chapter of the Baseball Writers Association of America.
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55. Holly Alvarado

Designation Festivals & Events Reporter Author Bio Holly Alvarado has lived as a music and festival fanatic since day one. She is the Festival & Events reporter for the Southern California News Group after freelancing for various music publications such as Remezcla, Pitchfork, Consequence of Sound, and a handful of local Los Angeles-based magazines. Holly transferred from Mt.San Antonio College to Cal State Long Beach, where she majored in Journalism and a minor in Womens Studies, with music theory also under her belt. When she isn't attending an event, you can find her playing the bass, watering plants, spinning some tunes for her local r...adio show Las Chicas, hammocking with friends at the park, or watching the best show on earth, The Office, as she would say.more
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56. Hanna Lykke

Designation Reporter Author Bio Hanna Lykke is a crime and public safety reporter covering Southern California. She is a graduate of UC Berkeley, where she studied English and journalism. While attending Cal, she worked at Berkeley's paper of record, The Daily Californian, covering city and campus issues. She also served as the paper's first-ever sports copy chief. Driven to understand the dynamics of crime in Southern California, Hanna interned with the Orange County Public Defender's office post-graduation. Born and raised in Orange County, she is passionate about covering her community through a local lens.
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57. Tyler Shaun Evains

Designation Reporter Author Bio Tyler Shaun Evains covers city government, school board and community happenings for the beach cities (primarily Manhattan Beach and El Segundo). She was previously an editorial assistant for the San Gabriel Valley Newsgroup. Tyler earned her journalism degree from the University of La Verne in 2018.
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58. Linda Zavoral

Designation Assistant Features Editor Author Bio Linda Zavoral is a Features reporter and editor who writes about restaurants, libations, travel and the arts for the Eat Drink Play and Eye/Timeout sections. She's a Bay Area native and a San Jose State University journalism graduate. Her previous roles at the Mercury News include Lowell Thomas award-winning editor of the Travel section, Alameda County bureau chief and Getting Ahead editor.
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59. Maggie Angst

Designation Peninsula Reporter Author Bio Maggie Angst covers government on the Peninsula for The Mercury News. She's a Chicago native and previously covered breaking news for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and education for the Island Packet in Hilton Head, S.C.
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60. Steven Greenhut

Author Bio Steven Greenhut is Western region director for the R Street Institute. He was a Register editorial writer from 1998-2009. Write to him at ****@rstreet.org.
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61. Brennon Dixson

Designation Reporter Author Bio After graduating from Long Beach State in 2017, Brennon began working as an intern at the Long Beach Press-Telegram before moving to the Torrance Daily Breeze to serve as a news assistant. He departed the group to cover education at the Santa Clarita Valley Signal and recently worked in Santa Monica before settling into his current position. He considers himself a community journalist, first and foremost, and enjoys gardening or hanging with his German Shepherd-Huskies when he's not covering a meeting. Say hi if you see him out in town.
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62. Anita Gosch

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63. Joseph Dycus

Designation High School Sports Reporter Author Bio Joseph Dycus covers high school sports on and off the field/court/pitch for the Bay Area News Group. Before moving to the Bay Area, Joseph covered sports, courts and everything else you could think of for Chattanoogan.com in the Scenic City. He would rather walk long distances than pay money to park somewhere closer.
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64. Austin Turner

Designation Contributing Writer Author Bio Breaking News Reporter: @MercNews @EastBayTimes | Former: @TheSpearSJSU @SpartanDaily | @SJSU ‘20
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65. Gabriel Greschler

Designation Santa Clara County And Milpitas Reporter Author Bio Gabriel Greschler is the Santa Clara County and Milpitas reporter for The Mercury News. He previously worked as a staff writer for J. The Jewish News of Northern California and as an on-call interactive producer for KQED. He grew up in Boston, moved to Seattle when he was 10 and then attended the University of San Francisco with a major in politics and a minor in journalism. Gabriel is passionate about local news (he hosts a podcast on the subject), trying new restaurants out and escaping the San Francisco fog.
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66. Brady MacDonald

Designation Reporter Author Bio Theme park reporter for @OCRegister covering news and trends on Disney, Universal, SeaWorld, Six Flags, Cedar Fair & Legoland parks around the nation and world
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67. Shomik Mukherjee

Designation Author Author Bio reporting on Oakland @eastbaytimes & @mercnews | ****@bayareanewsgroup.com
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68. Adam Grosbard

Designation Sports Reporter Author Bio Adam Grosbard covers USC athletics for the Orange County Register and Southern California News Group. He's previously covered his alma mater SMU and the WNBA for the Dallas Morning News and high school sports for the Long Beach Press-Telegram. A Pasadena native, he currently lives in the South Bay.
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69. Kevin Smith

Designation Reporter Author Bio Kevin Smith handles business news and editing for the Southern California News Group, which includes 11 newspapers, websites and social media channels. He covers everything from employment, technology and housing to retail, corporate mergers and business-based apps. Kevin often writes stories that highlight the local impact of trends occurring nationwide. And the focus is always to shed light on why those issues matter to readers in Southern California.
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70. Donna Littlejohn

Designation Reporter Author Bio Donna Littlejohn received a bachelor's degree (double major) in journalism and political science from California State University, Long Beach, and began her career in daily journalism with the San Pedro News-Pilot, transferring to The Daily Breeze staff in 1998 after the San Pedro publication closed.
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71. Sean Emery

Designation Reporter Author Bio Sean Emery is a crime and public safety reporter for the Register who covers state and federal courts and criminal justice issues. He has worked for the Register since 2006, previously covering breaking news, the city of Irvine, the Orange County Great Park, and the city of San Juan Capistrano.
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72. Michael Slaten

Designation Author Author Bio Michael Slaten covers Anaheim and Huntington Beach for the Orange County Register. He graduated from the UC Berkeley School of Journalism where he was a part of the Investigative Reporting Program. Originally born and raised in Texas, he graduated from the University of Houston, where he was the editor-in-chief of the student newspaper, The Cougar. He has previously reported for the Houston Chronicle and Oakland North. Despite his Texas roots, he loves the Los Angeles Rams. He also enjoys exploring California, and you can likely find him at one of Orange County’s local beaches.
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73. Sarah Hofmann

Designation Reporter Author Bio Sarah Hofmann is a reporter based in Southern California. She grew up in West Virginia and attended Occidental College for cognitive science and Columbia University for writing. Before joining The Press-Enterprise and Southern California News Group, she interned at The Herald-Dispatch and volunteered with the Covid Tracking Project.
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74. Jonathan Lansner

Designation Reporter Author Bio Jonathan Lansner has been the Orange County Register's business columnist since 1997 and has been part of the newspaper's coverage of the local business scene since 1986. He is a past national president of the Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing and a 1979 graduate of the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School.
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75. Ethan Varian

Designation Author Author Bio Ethan Varian is a Bay Area News Group reporter covering housing for The Mercury News and East Bay Times. He was previously a housing and homelessness reporter at the Santa Rosa Press Democrat in Sonoma County. His stories about housing, business and culture have been published in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times and the Guardian US, among others. He graduated from Colorado College with a BA degree in history and the University of Southern California with an MS degree in journalism.
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76. Sandra Barrera

Designation Reporter Author Bio Sandra Barrera was born and raised in the San Gabriel Valley to immigrant parents and has covered topics that range in interest to all demographics, from the Latin hip-hop movement and Argentine tango meetups to Quinceañeras. Her stories have also highlighted stories of local Black artists, Native American theater, faith-based fitness, nutrition and wellness programs, gay marriage, and Jewish life in Southern California, from kosher restaurants to an exhibit on home movies. She is a real estate reporter for the Southern California News Group. From celebrity-owned homes to architectural ...jaw-droppers, she specializes in big-ticket residential properties that are the stuff of dreams and lottery fantasies.more
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77. Destiny Torres

Designation Reporter Author Bio Destiny Torres covers the local county government for the Orange County Register. She previously worked at the Los Angeles Business Journal where she covered L.A.'s growing tech industry. She started her journalistic journey at CSU Dominguez Hills where she was an editor for the university's student-run newspaper The Bulletin. In 2022, she earned her master's degree in journalism from the University of Southern California. More of Destiny's words can be found at Remezcla, LA School Report and the Los Angeles Times Español. When she isn't on deadline, Destiny can usually be found baking,... reading or watching 50 First Dates for the millionth time.more
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78. Josh Cain

Designation Author Author Bio Josh Cain's interest in writing and reporting the news started as a kid growing up in Orange County, California. He attended journalism school at Boston University. Since 2016, he's worked at what would become the Southern California News Group, first as a digital editor for SCNG's San Gabriel Valley newspapers, then as a crime, cops and courts reporter for the Los Angeles Daily News. He's affiliated with the Asian American Journalists Association, Los Angeles chapter, for which he was elected a board member in 2019. As a chapter, the association represents Asian and Pacific Islander report...ers in the Los Angeles area. It also sponsors and manages a small number of internships for local newspapers, online news publications and radio stations. Most of the funding for those internships comes through membership dues, but the association also raises funds through its annual Trivia Bowl. For the competition, local media companies and other businesses buy tables for their employees to participate.more
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79. Tony Saavedra

Designation Author Author Bio I am a journalist on the investigations team at Southern California News Group and the Orange County Register. Regional Murrow, Best in West, CNPA
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80. Samantha Gowen

Designation Author Author Bio Samantha Gowen is the business editor for the Southern California News Group. Gowen joined The Orange County Register in October 2000, arriving from South Florida just days before the presidential election imploded. (Remember hanging chads?) She held a variety of roles -- copy editor, pets editor, trending and car culture reporter and page designer -- before joining the Business team as deputy editor in 2014. Her team specializes in real estate, the economy, and jobs coverage.
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81. Michael Hixon

Designation Author Author Bio Michael Hixon, a community journalist since 1996, is a reporter at The Beach Reporter who covers Hermosa Beach and well as business, feature and entertainment news. He also has written extensively about Hollywood movies and film festivals and met or interviewed more directors and celebrities than he can count.
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82. Jeff Collins

Designation Author Author Bio For more than a decade, Jeff Collins has followed housing and real estate, covering market booms and busts and all aspects of the real estate industry. He has been tracking rents and home prices, and has explored solutions to critical problems such as Southern California’s housing shortage and affordability crisis. Before joining the Orange County Register in 1990, he covered a wide range of topics for daily newspapers in Kansas, El Paso and Dallas. A Southern California native, he studied at UC Santa Barbara and UC Irvine. He later earned a master’s degree from the USC School of J...ournalism.more
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83. Nathaniel Percy

Designation Author Author Bio Nathaniel Percy has worked for the Southern California News Group since 2014 covering a wide range of topics including community sports and cities in Orange County, as well as crime and public safety in the South Bay and Long Beach. Prior to SCNG, Nathaniel spent five years covering community sports for the La Habra Journal, an independent bi-monthly community newspaper. Nathaniel also does freelance play-by-play broadcast work for high school football and baseball.
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84. Brian Rokos

Designation Author Author Bio Brian Rokos has worked in newspapers since 1985, at the Mountain Democrat in Placerville, News Chronicle in Thousand Oaks, the Cincinnati Post, the Orange County Register and currently The Press-Enterprise/Southern California News Group. Among the major stories he has covered are destructive wildfires, Christopher Dorner's rampage, the San Bernardino terrorist attack, Chase Merritt murder trial and the Perris torture case.
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85. Kaitlyn Schallhorn

Designation Author Author Bio Kaitlyn Schallhorn is a politics and city editor with the Orange County Register. She previously served as the editor in chief of The Missouri Times, overseeing print, television, and newsletter coverage of the State Capitol. Throughout her career, Kaitlyn has covered political campaigns across the U.S., including the 2016 presidential election, and humanitarian aid efforts in Africa and the Middle East. She studied journalism at Winthrop University in South Carolina.
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86. Ruby Gonzales

Designation Author Author Bio Ruby Gonzales started working for the company in 1991. Since then she has written about cities, school districts and the San Gabriel River. Her current beat includes breaking news, crimes and courts for the San Gabriel Valley Tribune, Pasadena Star News and Whittier Daily News. When not in crime reporter mode, she frequents the remaining bookstores in the San Gabriel Valley, haunts craft stores or gets dragged to eateries by a relative who is a foodie. Ruby has a bachelor's degree in print journalism with a minor in cultural anthropology from the University of Southern California.
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87. Beau Yarbrough

Designation Author Author Bio Beau Yarbrough wrote his first newspaper article taking on an authority figure (his middle school principal) when he was in 7th grade. He’s been a professional journalist since 1992, working in Virginia, Egypt and California. In that time, he’s covered community news, features, politics, local government, education, the comic book industry and more. He’s covered the war in Bosnia, interviewed presidential candidates, written theatrical reviews, attended a seance, ridden in a blimp and interviewed both Batman and Wonder Woman (Adam West and Lynda Carter). He also cooks a mean ...pot of chili.more
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88. Brooke Staggs

Designation Author Author Bio Brooke Staggs covers the environment for Southern California News Group’s chain of 11 newspapers. Her work has triggered FBI investigations, landed her appearances on national TV and radio outlets, and helped her win some of the top journalism awards in the western United States. The Big Bear native got her start teaching high school English and journalism in Riverside County but left in 2006 to be a student again herself, earning a masters degree in journalism from New York University. She’s written for dozens of newspapers and magazines across the country, with projects that have... taken her from a zero gravity flight over Queens to a fishing village in Ghana. Brooke joined the Orange County Register in January 2013, covering local communities, cannabis and politics before starting on the environment beat for SCNG in July 2022. She also occasionally teaches community college and writes nonfiction, with her co-authored book “Stealing from the World’s Best Schools” available now wherever books are sold. Brooke lives in the Inland Empire with her husband and their much-loved pets. Her freetime is filled with traveling, hiking, reading, crafting and scheming about new ways to make the world a more informed, just and joyful place.more
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89. Steven Rosenberg

Designation Author Author Bio Steve Rosenberg graduated from the San Fernando Valley's U.S. Grant High School, attended CSU Northridge, and has a BA degree in comparative literature from UC Santa Cruz. He has worked for the Glendale News-Press, City News Service, Crain Communications and the LA Daily News in the Southern California News Group. Steve has an interest in technology and how it affects our political and everyday lives.
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90. Jordan Darling

Designation Author Author Bio Jordan Darling started her journalism career in 2021 as the editor of The Log newspaper before moving on to join the Inland Valley Daily Bulletin in 2022. She is a 2020 graduate of California State University, Dominguez Hills where she majored in journalism and served as the editor in chief of the student-run newspaper, the Bulletin. She has covered local politics, coastal news, the environment, and education. Darling is a black belt in judo, and also enjoys coffee, reading, and dancing.
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91. Allyson Vergara

Designation Author Author Bio Allyson Vergara is the Demographics and Equity team editor for the Southern California News Group, leading coverage of race, culture, diversity and inclusion across Los Angeles, Orange County and the Inland Empire. She hopes to share stories that make way for underrepresented communities to feel seen in their local news. She's written extensively about diversity; from covering Asian and Latino American communities in California, to religion in Brooklyn and Queens. Allyson covered the Inland Empire with The Press-Enterprise before starting her new beat in 2023. She's written for outlets includi...ng NBC News, the LA Times, Angelus News, KCETLink, The Daily Pilot, America Magazine, National Catholic Reporter, The Tablet and Asian Journal. She earned a master's degree from the CUNY Newmark School of Journalism in New York, after attending Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles for undergrad. She loves hiking and a good game of Scrabble.more
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92. Olga Grigoryants

Designation Author Author Bio Olga Grigoryants is a multimedia reporter focusing on urban development, business and culture. She also supports the paper in its watchdog role to hold San Fernando Valley power players accountable and loves digging for public records. After studying writing in Moscow, she moved to Los Angeles in 2007 and has called it home ever since. She earned her master’s degree from the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, and has published articles with Reuters, Bloomberg, the Los Angeles Business Journal and LA Weekly. Along the way, she picked up awards from the Los Angeles Pres...s Club and Society of Professional Journalists. If you want to get on her bright side, she loves a perfect cup of matcha latte.more
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93. Sam Tabachnik

Designation Author Author Bio Sam Tabachnik is a breaking news reporter for The Denver Post. He previously wrote for NBC News, the Washington Post and the New Orleans Times-Picayune. A Boston native, he's not afraid to root for Tom Brady in the Mile High City.
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94. Christine Ricciardi

Designation Author Author Bio Tiney Ricciardi joined The Denver Post in 2020 to cover all facets of the Colorado cannabis industry, including marijuana and hemp policy and reform, market trends, and entertainment. Prior to her Rocky Mountain tenure, Tiney worked for The Dallas Morning News where she served as the first beer editor covering the Lone Star State's emerging craft beer landscape. She also worked a stint in the newspaper's marketing division developing audience loyalty and retention strategy. Tiney's work has been recognized by the Society of Features Journalism and, in 2018, she was honored as Arts and Enter...tainment Journalist of the Year by The Dallas Morning News. She is co-founder and co-host of Grapes and Grain podcast, and currently pursuing her cicerone and beer judge certifications.more
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95. Scott Schwebke

Designation Author Author Bio Scott Schwebke is an investigative reporter for the Orange County Register and the Southern California News Group. A native of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., he was previously a breaking news and multimedia reporter for the Ogden, Utah, Standard-Examiner. Scott has also worked at newspapers in Utah, Colorado, North Carolina and Virginia covering everything from methamphetamine trafficking cops to hurricanes. He has also accompanied police on undercover drug buys and also provided an award winning, eyewitness account of the execution of a North Carolina death row inmate. Scott was part of the OC Regist...er’s investigative team that in 2017 produced the year-long, award winning Rehab Riviera series, examining problems in Southern California’s drug rehabilitation industry. He also teamed up with reporter Joe Nelson in 2019 on Bad Apples, an award winning investigation that exposed years of sex abuse cover up in the Redlands Unified School District. Having spent two years living in England including Liverpool, he is an avid Beatles fan and memorabilia collector.more
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96. Kristy Hutchings

Designation Author Author Bio Kristy Hutchings covers all things Long Beach — including local government, politics, and the environment. Prior to joining the Press-Telegram, she served as the Daily Breeze's lead city hall reporter. Hutchings holds a B.A. in communication and M.S. in journalism from the University of Southern California.
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97. John Woolfolk

Designation Author Author Bio John Woolfolk is a reporter for the Bay Area News Group, based at The Mercury News. A native of New Orleans, he grew up near San Jose. He is a graduate of the UC Berkeley School of Journalism and has been a journalist since 1990, covering cities, counties, law enforcement, courts and other general news. He also has worked as an editor since 2013.
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98. Linh Tat

Designation Reporter Author Bio Linh Tat covers L.A. City Hall for the Los Angeles Daily News. Prior to that, she covered the Los Angeles Unified School District for the paper. Linh’s previous stints also include working as a night cops, city hall and education reporter for Bay Area News Group, a municipal and court reporter for The Record in New Jersey and a K-12 and higher ed reporter for POLITICO New Jersey. She returned to her home state of California in 2019.
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99. Jerry Mcdonald

Designation Oakland Raiders Reporter Author Bio Jerry McDonald has been with the Bay Area News Group for more than 30 years, with a heavy concentration of NFL football since the Raiders returned to Oakland in 1995.
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100. Tarek Fattal

Designation Sportswriter Author Bio Tarek was born and raised in the San Fernando Valley, a community he now serves as a sportswriter for the LA Daily News covering high school sports since 2015. Tarek also covers the UCLA men's basketball team for the Southern California News Group and can be seen on CBS Los Angeles on weekends serving as co-host/sports analyst with TV legend Jim Hill.
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