Two-time Pulitzer winner Kim Christensen, who helped expose the UCI fertility scandal for the Register, dies at 71

The cheap start to an obituary about longtime Southern California journalist Kim Christensen would take you backward, maybe toss up a fact-filled recitation of his career followed by some quotes from people who knew him in the mid-1980s, when he started working at The Orange County Register.

Before he was a key member of two Pulitzer Prize-winning teams for stories about fertility fraud at UC Irvine and abuse of immigrants by the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service, before his stories...