Rick Hurd, Breaking news/East Bay for the Bay Area News Group is photographed for a Wordpress profile in Walnut Creek, Calif., on Thursday, July 28, 2016. (Anda Chu/Bay Area News Group)
Breaking News Reporter

Rick Hurd

Rick Hurd has been a breaking news reporter for the Bay Area News Group since 2011. He covers crime, public safety and the biggest stories of the day for The Mercury News and East Bay Times. He used to cover sports. Now a high school baseball coach. He graduated from Cal State Chico with a BA degree in Information and Communications Studies with a journalism emphasis.

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, California, USA

Affiliation: Baseball Writers' Association of America

Award: 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting - Staff of the East Bay Times for coverage of the Ghost Ship fire

Expertise: Policing, public safety, weather, wild fires, mass shootings

Expertise: Sports

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