Mark Landsbaum
- Adjunct Professor of Journalism
- B.A., Long Beach State University
Newspaper veteran Mark Landsbaum instructs students in reporting techniques, teaching classes that delve into areas such as investigative and public affairs reporting. In the classroom, Landsbaum seeks to challenge students to think critically and to approach their profession from a Christian worldview.
Landsbaum, who currently works as a columnist, editorial writer and Internet blogger for the Orange County Register, also has freelanced for papers such as the Arizona Republic and the Philadelphia Inquirer, and Christian publications including The Christian Examiner, New Wineskins Magazine and the Baptist Press online.
Landsbaum has a wide variety of newspaper experience in his repertoire, having worked as a spot news reporter, beat reporter, investigative reporter, political reporter and a political and humor columnist. Over the course of his career, his coverage has resulted in arrests, prison sentences, new laws and court injunctions. He has won numerous reporting and writing awards. He was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in 1992 by his former employer, the Los Angeles Times, for a computer-assisted campaign financing investigation, and was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in 2008 by his current employer, the Orange County Register, for a series of editorials and columns on the state's confiscation of $5 billion of private funds.
In addition, Landsbaum has written or ghostwritten books on investments and business management. He is the founder and owner of Landsbaum Communications, a marketing communications consulting firm specializing in copywriting, design and marketing. In 1997, he launched Smallbusinessresources.com, a business-to-business web portal with hundreds of articles and columns from numerous contributing authors.
Landsbaum earned his B.A. in journalism from Long Beach State University. He is a member of the Evangelical Press Association and Investigative Reporters and Editors. He resides in Diamond Bar, Calif. with his wife, Jan, who also works at the Register as the small-business columnist.