About Ryan Huff

HUFF, RYAN is a staff writer at the Contra Costa Times, a 185,000-circulation daily newspaper in the San Francisco Bay Area. He reports on the government beat in Contra Costa County, an East Bay region with more than 1 million residents. Huff has traveled across the country to cover such events as the Kentucky Derby, Rose Parade, political conventions and Carnegie Hall performances. But his most memorable assignment happened in September 2005 when he was on a Knight Ridder team of reporters assisting the Biloxi Sun-Herald (Miss.) in its coverage of Hurricane Katrina. The team's efforts won the Pulitzer Prize for public service. Huff is a California native and graduated from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo with a journalism degree in 2002. Following college, he worked for the San Luis Obispo Tribune until 2005. At the Tribune, Huff covered floods, wildfires, a fatal shark attack and a magnitude 6.5 earthquake. He appeared on ABC's "Good Morning America" in April 2004 to talk about a San Luis Obispo murder trial. During college, he interned with NBC Nightly News' Washington, D.C. bureau. Huff enjoys traveling, hiking to the top of Yosemite's Half Dome and watching his favorite team, the San Francisco Giants.