Neal Koch has been hired by the Orange County Business Journal as its editor in chief.
He previously was a consulting editor and executive editor of the Pacific Coast Business Times from October 2022 to June 2023.
Before that, he was deputy editor and contributing editor at the Los Angeles Business Journal.
Koch has also been a staff writer and acting business editor at the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner.
He holds a bachelor’s degree from Haverford College and a master’s degree from Columbia University. He also has a law degree from Case Western Reserve.