Ken Reich
My blogs
| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Communications or Media |
| Occupation | Retired |
| Location | Los Angeles, California, United States |
| Introduction | Ken Reich worked for the L.A. Times for 39 years, retiring in 2004. Before The Times, he worked for Life magazine, United Press International and the Riverside Press-Enterprise. He graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Dartmouth College in 1960 and received an M.A. in political science from UC Berkeley in 1962. While at The Times, Ken covered the Presidential campaigns of Eugene McCarthy, George Wallace, Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan, was the paper's Southern correspondent in 1970-72, served briefly as Op-Ed Page Editor, was the lead writer on the preparations for the 1984 Olympics, covered insurance and the law, for three years wrote a Consumer Column, and covered earthquakes and volcanoes off and on for 25 years. |
| Favorite Movies | Casablanca, She Wore A Yellow Ribbon, Z |
| Favorite Books | Carl Sandburg, David Donald and Benjamin Thomas biographies of Abraham Lincoln; Herman Wouk's The Caine Mutiny |