Orange County-based journalist and author Deirdre Newman has joined the Business Journal as a staff writer.
Newman will write a regular column on startups and innovation that’s expected to debut in coming weeks and, will cover that subject, as well as the local legal industry, media landscape, nonprofits, and manufacturing.
It is a new position at the Business Journal and signals another expansion of the publication’s newsroom.
“We are pleased to be in a position to continuously improve our efforts to cover this dynamic market and to have a journalist of Newman’s caliber aboard to initiate coverage of startups and innovation and the numerous innovators who populate every sector of Orange County’s community of business,” said Business Journal Editor Jerry Sullivan.
Newman is a graduate of Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y., and her professional experience includes journalism duties ranging from the Daily Pilot in Costa Mesa to Crittenden News in Mission Viejo. She has been a freelance contributor to various publications and organizations, including California Apparel News and the Community Outreach Partnership Center at the University of California-Irvine. She arrives at the Business Journal from a recent stint as a staff reporter in the Orange County bureau of the Daily Journal, a legal industry trade publication based in Los Angeles.
Newman won the California Teachers Association John Swett Award for Continuous Coverage of Schools/Education in 2000 and a National Awards for Education Reporting Special Citation from the Education Writers Association in 2001.
She wrote “The Life Story of Dr. Jack Miller and his Creation of The Phoenix Project,” which is available on Amazon and Kindle.
Newman can be reached at (949) 833-8373, ext. 271, or newman@ocbj.com.
