Rick Laubscher

Rick Laubscher (born 1949) is president and CEO of San Francisco non-profit Market Street Railway. Noted for his civic contributions to the city of San Francisco, Laubscher is a former reporter and public relations executive. He attended college at UC Santa Cruz, where he created the university's first radio station.

Career Laubscher attended the Columbia School of Journalism to obtain his master's degree in journalism, where he graduated first in his class. He received the Pulitzer Fellowship; upon graduation, he used the fellowship to spend a year traveling and reporting from different locations around the world. When he returned to California, he began his career as a journalist. He took his first job at KGTV in San Diego, where he interviewed then-presidential candidate Ronald Reagan and received two "Golden Mike" awards for his work. Laubscher was acquainted with both victims as well as the killer, Dan White, and his coverage of the event earned an Emmy award. He continues to serve as President and CEO of Market Street Railway.

In 1987, Laubscher was the founding Chairman of the City Club of San Francisco, one of the first fully operating business organizations in the San Francisco Financial District.