Robert Price, Editorial page editor
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Robert Price has been writing three columns a week for The Californian since 1999. He was born in Iowa, lived in eight different cities as a Navy brat, attended high school in Sonoma County and graduated from Sacramento State University on the 10-year plan. Immediately upon his graduation, and despite having served as editor-in-chief of the award-winning State Hornet, Price immediately embarked on a career as an advertising copywriter. When it became clear he frequently would be asked to lie, he switched back to journalism -- and since doing so has not been asked to lie even once that he can recall.
Price joined The Californian in 1988 after making stops at two smaller daily newspapers. Since joining The Californian he has covered sports, the oil industry, local government, and music and entertainment, among a great many other things. He served as The Californian's features editor for two years (1998-99). In late 2002 Price took a three-month break from his column to write "The Lords of Bakersfield,” a 17,000-word look at the sordid circumstances surrounding the stabbing death of Assistant District Attorney Steve Tauzer. Price's reporting helped The Californian earn the University of Oregon’s Payne Award for Ethics -- and the eternal scorn of Kern County D.A. Ed Jagels. Price won the George F. Gruner Award for journalism in 2003 and the California Newspaper Publishers Association’s medium-market award for outstanding local column in 2006.
Price is married to former Bakersfield TV anchor Katie Price. They have two children.
