About ME

If you'd like to contact me, please email me at rkane29@gmail.com.

I'm a multi-award winning journalist, editor, and filmmaker who loves telling compelling stories about people, places, and things, either as a one-man operation or part of a team. (Yeah, I also love the Oxford comma.)

I've spent most of my career editing and writing at alternative weekly newspapers, but I've also written for the Los Angeles Times, a website that's all about dogs, and album liner notes for punk rock bands. I'm currently based in Salt Lake City, Utah.

A former boss once told me she thought my expectations were too high. I took it as a compliment.

FILM FESTIVAL ACCEPTANCES
-- 2019 Cinema Diverse Palm Springs LGBTQ+ Film Festival
-- 2019 Ogden Film Festival

JOURNALISM AWARD SAMPLES
National
-- Honorable Mention (Music Criticism), Association of Alternative Newsweeklies Editorial Awards, 2000
-- Best Non-Fiction Magazine Story, Columbia University (New York) Scholastic Press Association Gold Circle Awards, 1993

Regional
-- Marjorie Freeman Award for Best Humorous Story, Orange County Press Club, 2012
-- The Dr. Zweig Community Health Advocate Award, presented by Citizens for Community Action and Environmental Justice, for a series of articles written for Inland Empire Weekly about the region’s toxic, polluted air and water, December 2007
-- Best Non-Daily News Story - Orange County Press Club, 2001
-- Best Education Story, Best Sports Personality Profile - Orange County Fair Best Reporter’s Contest, 1998
-- Best Non-Breaking News Story, Best Personality Profile, Best Sports Personality Profile - Orange County Fair Best Reporter’s Contest, 1997.
-- Best College Reporter, Orange County Fair Best Reporter’s Contest, 1993.