Brazil Named Times O.C. City Editor

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jeff Brazil has been named city editor of the Orange County Edition, effective today.

Brazil, 36, who joined The Times’ Orange County Edition in 1993, most recently worked in Los Angeles, where he spent the last 2 1/2 years on the Metro projects team.

“Jeff is a superb journalist who knows Orange County and really cares about what happens here,” said Lennie La Guire, editor of the Orange County Edition. “He will be a catalyst for the innovative, high-impact coverage that readers deserve.”

Brazil has won a number of journalism awards, including the Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting in 1993 and the Scripps-Howard Edward J. Meeman National Award for Environmental Journalism in 1991.

In Orange County, he won the Worth Bingham Investigative Prize in 1995 for a series of stories documenting how the Federal Aviation Administration had mishandled numerous safety issues, resulting in preventable deaths.

A graduate of the University of Santa Clara, Brazil worked at the Orlando Sentinel in Orlando, Fla., as a projects reporter and state rover, and at the Peninsula Times Tribune in Palo Alto.

He lives in Irvine with his wife, Louanne, and their four children.