Brooke Staggs

I’ve covered everything from women’s rights in Ghana to the pot penny stock market. My multimedia work has appeared in local and national publications, including the Orange County Register, San Jose Mercury News, Denver Post, The New York Resident, Vegas Seven magazine and Running Times.

I embrace my watchdog role, with a series of stories about the city of Victorville that's been cited during ongoing investigations by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services and the SEC. I'm also passionate about sharing compelling human interest stories, quirky trends and profiles, innovations in business and science, travel stories and whatever new subject I’ll discover tomorrow.

I'm addicted to learning. I was teaching English at Rubidoux High when the principal asked me to oversee the student newspaper. I had no experience in journalism, so I learned about the field along with my students, discovering a passion that led me to pursue my masters in journalism.

Two weeks out of graduate school, I was hired at the Daily Press, moving up the ranks from reporter to city editor. I managed a news staff of five reporters plus freelancers, edited copy and managed our websites while still writing up to six stories a week.

Those are skills I built on while navigating a large newsroom at the Orange County Register, with several statewide awards plus national TV and radio appearances also under my belt.