Rip Rense
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Rip Rense is a journalist, author and longtime reporter for the Los Angeles Times. Rense is a regular contributor to TV Guide. He has also written for Emmy Magazine, People, Spin, Free China Review among other magazines. [1]. His work has appeared in The Philadelphia Inquirer, Chicago Tribune, The Boston Globe, The Denver Post, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, San Francisco Chronicle, San Jose Mercury News, San Francisco Examiner and other American newspapers. Rense has beeen a long-time afficionado of Frank Zappa and the mothers of invention and has written liner notes for Zappa's symphonic albums "The Yellow Shark" and "The Lost Episodes." Rense's column Riposte [2] won the Los Angeles Press Club's Southern California Journalism Award in 2004 [3]. The column is decidedly left-leaning [4].
[edit] A Family of Media Mavens
Rense is the brother of alternative talk radio host Jeff Rense. His mother, Paige Rense, is editor-in-chief of Architectural Digest and founder of the Arthur Rense Prize poetry award [5]. His father Arthur Rense was a sports journalist for the Los Angeles Daily News [6] and director of public relations for Howard Hughes' Summa Corporation [7].
[edit] Books
Rense is the author of the 2003 book "The Last Byline" (Xlibris Corporation, ISBN 1401078257) [8].
[edit] External Links
Official website riprense.com
