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Author Archives: Tracy WoodCivic Editor

Tracy Wood oversees Voice of OC’s civics reporting, including county and city government, the Orange County Transportation Authority, CalOptima, Anaheim, Santa Ana and other community coverage.

Tracy is a former government reporter, foreign correspondent in Asia, California investigative reporter and editor. She has covered the California legislature and governor’s office for both United Press International and the Los Angeles Times. As a UPI reporter, she was one of the few women combat correspondents during the Vietnam War. She joined the Los Angeles Times in California where she was an investigative reporter for 17 years, covering political and government corruption. Later she became the Orange County Register’s Investigations Editor, leading the paper’s investigations team when it broke the story of former Orange County Sheriff Michael S. Carona’s ties to Nationwide Auction Systems founder and former Assistant Sheriff Donald G. Haidl.

She has won numerous awards for investigative reporting and in 2001 was named Los Angeles Print Journalist of the Year by Sigma Delta Chi, the professional journalism association.

Wood and eight other women reporters from Vietnam co-authored “War Torn, Stories of War from the Women Reporters who Covered Vietnam” (2002 Random House). She was also part of the Los Angeles Times staff team that won the 1993 Pulitzer for coverage of the Rodney King riots. The Pulitzer was for spot news coverage for balanced, comprehensive, penetrating coverage under deadline pressure of the second, most destructive day of the Los Angeles riots.

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Meet the Young Reporter Whose Stories on Government Secrecy Led to Creating California’s Open Meetings Act

Avatar photo by Tracy Wood Mar 16, 2021Mar 16, 2021 Why you can trust Voice of OC

This republished story was written by the late Tracy Wood. Her powerful work, as this story demonstrates, serves as a persistent championship of the power of the press and the ongoing need for journalists and the public to push government to maintain openness of public records and meetings.

Posted inCountywide, Government, Safety, Security & Justice, Santa Ana, Top Stories

OC Police Chiefs Seek Common Ground on New Transparency Law

Avatar photo by Tracy Wood Jan 14, 2019Dec 8, 2020 Why you can trust Voice of OC
Posted inCountywide, Top Stories

Arnold Forde, Longtime California Political Consultant and Direct Mail Pioneer, Dead at 82

Avatar photo by Tracy Wood and Thy Vo Jul 1, 2018May 6, 2021 Why you can trust Voice of OC
Posted inCountywide, Government, Investigative, Politics & Elections, Top Stories

Activists Threaten to Sue Steel and Rackauckas If They Don’t Pay Back County For “Community Coffee” Mailer

Avatar photo by Tracy Wood Feb 20, 2018Jul 9, 2021 Why you can trust Voice of OC
Posted inGovernment, Politics & Elections, Top Stories

16,000 Voters Invited By Mail to Meet Steel and Rackauckas, But There Only Was Room for 50

Avatar photoAvatar photo by Tracy Wood and Nick Gerda Feb 5, 2018May 6, 2021 Why you can trust Voice of OC
Posted inGovernment, Safety, Security & Justice, Top Stories

Rackauckas Faces $21,000 Fine for Late Reports of $190,000 in Behested Payments

Avatar photo by Thy Vo and Tracy Wood Sep 11, 2017May 6, 2021 Why you can trust Voice of OC
Posted inGovernment, Investigative, News Briefs, Politics & Elections, Top Stories

Ex-Staffer’s Claim Against Spitzer Didn’t Pan Out, According to DA Investigator

Avatar photo by Tracy Wood Jul 14, 2017Jul 9, 2021 Why you can trust Voice of OC
Posted inGovernment, Investigative, News Briefs, Safety, Security & Justice, Top Stories

DA Rackauckas Investigating Supervisor Spitzer, His Election Rival

Avatar photo by Tracy Wood Jul 12, 2017Jul 9, 2021 Why you can trust Voice of OC
Posted inGovernment, Health & Wellness, Top Stories

Battle Intensifies for Control of OC’s Health Care Plan for Low Income Residents

Avatar photoAvatar photo by Nick Gerda and Tracy Wood Jul 12, 2017May 6, 2021 Why you can trust Voice of OC
Posted inGovernment, Health & Wellness, Top Stories

OC Supervisors Attempt CalOptima Takeover

Avatar photo by Tracy Wood Jul 10, 2017Dec 8, 2020 Why you can trust Voice of OC

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