Richard Rushfield is an American entertainment journalist, editor, and author. He has won two SoCal Journalism Awards from the Los Angeles Press Club and has been a contributing writer for the New York Times, the Washington Post, and Vanity Fair, among others. As entertainment web editor for the LA Times, he covered American Idol extensively which led him to authoring, "American Idol: The Untold Story," which received favorable reviews by Kirkus and Publishers Weekly.