Rick Laubscher Biography
Rick Laubscher is the president and CEO of the non-profit Market Street Railway in San Francisco. Laubscher, a former reporter and public relations executive, is well-known for his civic services to the city of San Francisco.
Rick Laubscher Age
Rick was born in 1949 in the United States of America. He is 74 years old as of 2023.
Rick Laubscher Education
Laubscher attended the Columbia School of Journalism and obtain his master’s degree in journalism.
Rick Laubscher Family
Attempts to establish the identities of his family, his mother, and his father were in vain since no information about them is available to the public. It’s therefore not known whether he has any siblings.
Rick Laubscher Career
Laubscher earned his master’s degree in journalism from the Columbia School of Journalism, where he graduated top in his class. He was awarded the Pulitzer Fellowship, which he used to spend a year traveling and reporting from various sites across the world after graduating. When he returned to California, he started working as a journalist. He got his first job at KGTV in San Diego, where he interviewed then-presidential candidate Ronald Reagan and won two “Golden Mike” awards. He returned to San Francisco in 1977 to work for KRON-TV. Laubscher was among the first reporters on the site of the Moscone-Milk assassination in 1978.
Laubscher knew both victims as well as the killer, Dan White, and his report of the event garnered him an Emmy. The following year, he documented the Jonestown massacre. Laubscher left reporting in 1981 to pursue a career in public relations as an executive with the Bechtel Group. He quit the Bechtel Group after 18 years to start his own communications firm, Messagesmith. In 1982, Laubscher, as Chair of the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce Transportation Committee, co-organized the first Historic Trolley Festival with then-Mayor Dianne Feinstein. He founded Market Street Railway as a non-profit company in 1985.
His work with Market Street Railway aided in the establishment of the city’s historic F Line, which debuted in 1995 and is today the most popular transportation line of its sort in the United States. He is still the President and CEO of Market Street Railway. Laubscher was the founding Chairman of the City Club of San Francisco, one of the city’s first fully operational business organizations, in 1987. Laubscher earned the Silver SPUR Award for exceptional civic performance from the San Francisco Bay Area Planning and Urban Research Association in 2011.
Rick Laubscher Net Worth
Rick has an estimated net worth of 5 million dollars.