Reo Carr
Editor-in-Chief
San Diego Business Journal

Reo Carr is the Editor-in-Chief of the San Diego Business Journal, San Diego’s leading business newspaper.

As Editor-in-Chief, Reo oversees overall news operations for the San Diego Business Journal including all print and online news reporting. In addition, Reo leads the team that manages the overall online publishing efforts of SDBJ sister papers, the Orange County Business Journal, The Los Angeles Business Journal and the San Fernando Business Journal.

A journalist for more than 20 years, Reo has focused his career on business reporting and editing.  The newspapers he has lead as an editor and publisher have won numerous local, regional and national awards for editorial excellence, political reporting and business news and analysis.

Reo has been active in the community, previously serving as Chair of the Board of the Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center and the Chair of Fleet Week San Diego. He is also has served on the board of the Flying Leatherneck Historical Foundation, United Thru Reading, San Diego Fleet Week Foundation, the CONNECT Unmanned Systems Forum, The Red Bull Air Race Host Committee, and is on the board of advisors of the San Diego Air & Space Museum, The Ronald McDonald House, the Children’s Initiative and he serves on the host committee for the Kyoto Laureates Symposium.  Reo is currently Co-Chair of Mayor Jerry Sanders Civic Leadership Economic Development Program for the City of San Diego.  He also serves on several for-profit corporate boards headquartered outside San Diego.