Lori Basheda is a freelance journalist who left the Orange County Register in 2014 after 18 years writing front page human interest columns. Prior to that she worked at the Riverside Press-Enterprise, as well as newspapers in northern Virginia and the Philadelphia area. She has written thousands of stories over 30 years, covering everything from City Hall to courts to cops to food reviews and travel pieces. Several of her stories can be found on Harvard’s Nieman Foundation for Journalism website, examples of "exemplary narrative journalism." One story she wrote inspired readers to donate more than $500,000 to the Red Bucket horse rescue, enabling them to buy their own ranch. Basheda also won dozens of awards. In 2017 she led a Southern California News Group series on substance abuse treatment corruption. Rehab Riviera took first place in investigative reporting from the California Newspaper Publishers Association and first place for projects reporting from Best of the West. She was a journalism instructor at California State University Dominguez Hills for 12 years until 2016 and currently coaches JV girls tennis at St. Joseph High in Lakewood. Her stories have appeared in dozens of publications and websites, including the Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, Sacramento Bee, LA Daily News, Baltimore Sun, Sunset Magazine, even a Dave Barry column. When she’s not writing, you can find her in the garden.
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