About Rich

Rich Hanner and his wife, Judy, a teacher, live in Woodbridge. They have two sons: Mitchell, a TV news editor in Sacramento, and Alex, a student at Delta College. Rich would be remiss in not mentioning Cody, his family’s 15-year-old Border collie.

Rich has been editor of the News-Sentinel for 10 years. He previously worked for The Record, the Neighbors section of the Sacramento Bee and the Palo Alto Times. He has written columns, investigative series, features, a book (“Inside the Lion’s Den”) and magazine articles (including the now-legendary article “Oscar, the Dog Who Refused to Die,” published in Dog Fancy Magazine.)

Rich was graduated from Sierra Community College in Rocklin, San Francisco State University and Stanford.

His other interests include: Playing tennis poorly; watching movies (recents faves are “Juno” and “There Will be Blood”); incinerating varied protein on a grill; hiking in the Sierra; bumming around San Francisco with Judy; reading (the News-Sentinel, of course, the NY Times, especially on Sunday, anything by Cormac McCarthy, and whatever the wonderfully literate members of his book club suggest); and disc golf.