MUTIMEDIA
WRITER - INDEPENDENT JOURNALIST
PLAYWRIGHT - NEWS PHOTOGRAPHER
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Professional Profile
Highly
influential team builder with successful career in bilingual news media in the
United States and abroad. Visionary with proven ability to inspire individuals
to work toward common goals and accomplish desired results. Easily adapts to
foreign cultures and persons.
Education and Additional Experience
BA
Journalism and Mass Communication UNAM-Mexico
BA
Immigration Law and Procedures, Stanford, University
MA
Performing Arts Mascarones Center at Nahuatl University-Mexico
AA
Broadcasting: Columbia Broadcasting Academy, Hollywood, CA.
Public Awards:
California's
Ventura County Arts Commissioner
California
Legislature for Drama Arts in Communities
Second
Place for Political Writer in Latin America by the National Association of
Hispanic Publications.
Best
Overall Publication, Photographs and Feature Story by the Western Labor Press
Association.
Literature
Award by the Oxnard Arts Association
Latino
Drama Arts by El Concilio del Condado de Ventura
Best
journalist by La Prensa de San Antonio.
Publication designer experience
Desktop
Publishing: Publisher, Pager Maker, QuarkXPress, and PhotoShop.
Photography: Experienced news photographer.
Immigration Status: United States Citizen and Mexican
National.
Languages: Spanish & English
JOURNALISM
& PUBLISHING EXPERIENCE (1975-Present).
Independent Journalist covering the USA-MEXICO Region
Author of love poetry, stories-tales and plays published on: http://teatroypoesiadeamerica.blogspot.com
and https://encuentrosyrelatos.blogspot.com
and https://encuentros-relatos.blogspot.com
Author of POESÍAS DEL ALMA and EROTISMO EN POESÍA (Pen name (Larry Alvarez)
and https://encuentrosyrelatos.blogspot.com
and https://encuentros-relatos.blogspot.com
Author of POESÍAS DEL ALMA and EROTISMO EN POESÍA (Pen name (Larry Alvarez)
Finding
Productions, Media Relations Director. (Los Angeles, CA)
Responsible to write press releases and columns to be published in
nationwide publications about the life and work of successful Latino people in
the media, the arts, and the business community.
Nuestra America On line
Founder and editor
of http://nuestraamericanews.blogspot.com
FACE BOOK: Nuestra América
Conexion Hispana.
Chief Operating Officer,
acting managing editor and a columnist for Conexión
Hispana, a weekly bilingual newspaper in Laredo-Del Rio-Eagle Pass-San
Angelo,Texas region.
Cesar E. Chavez
Legacy and Educational Foundation Communications Director.
Responsible for the media and public relations of the Foundation in San
Antonio, Texas.
Latin Opinion Baltimore, MD
Spanish language newspaper.
Copy editing and writing
local and State stories, advertisement and reviewing PDF’s pages.
“El Patriota”, Grupo Picacho. Honduras,
Central America.
Advisor in news gathering,
investigating reporting and news photography and American journalism standards.
“¿Qué Pasa?” NEWSPAPER,
Charlotte, NC
Editor and news
reporter for print and radio outlets for ¿Qué Pasa?” Media in Charlotte North
Carolina. News beats: crime, labor, local government, state politics,
transportation and investigating reporting about the flow of immigrants to
North Carolina.
IMF-GLOBAL
ENTERPRISES
Director of Media
Relations providing professional support to the development and implementation
of public relations and media programs.
Performs
specialized tasks such as media relations, writing in English and Spanish,
editing websites, and desktop publishing, special events programming, outreach
opportunities, and working on public relations and media campaigns.
DIARIOS RUMBO
News reporter of
RUMBO a Spanish language newspaper in San Antonio Texas. Responsible of the
news assignment desk. News beats crime, labor, government, immigration and
politics.
HISPANIC PRESS
NEWS SERVICE
Writer in English
and Spanish for the Hispanic Press News Service in Washington DC in the
following topics: automotive industry, nutrition, immigration and has
translated English articles into Spanish. He also has written press releases
for the agency and the National Association of Hispanic Publications.
Agencia EFE
Correspondent in
San Antonio Texas of Spain’s news agency for the North America region.
EL MUNDO/LA
CRONICA Spain
Contributor
writer.
LA PRENSA San Antonio Bilingual Newspaper
Bilingual News
Reporter. Responsible to write weekly news and feature stories about the life,
economic and political events of San Antonio.
MASTERCARD
GLOBAL MARKETING CENTER,
Saint Louis MO.
Bilingual agent in
marketing strategies for Latin America.
LATINO LEADERS
Contributor writer
to Latino Leaders magazine.
IMAGENES
Editor of
Imágenes-Spanish Language Newspaper.
FRANKLIN NEWS
Media consultant
for the Santa Barbara, California School District at Franklin Elementary
School. Developed a monthly school newsletter as well as teaching to 4-6
graders basic elements of journalism.
NEWS AND
PROPAGANDA DIRECTOR
News director for
Campesina Radio Network in Bakersfield, CA. Responsible to produce news
segments for a Farm Worker union oriented Radio Network, from California to
Arizona.
PUBLISHER/FOUNDER/EDITOR-
LA FARANDULA
Cofounder and
editor of "La Farandula" a Spanish language monthly newspaper
featuring Latino entertainers published by Ediciones Flor y Canto.
EDITOR EL NUEVO
TIEMPO
Editor of "El
Nuevo Tiempo”, the Spanish language weekly newspaper in Southern California,
published by M&G Enterprises.
EDICIONES FLOR
Y CANTO
Executive Director
of this desktop publishing company. Responsible to develop web pages for
customers as well as newspaper and magazine lay outs and designs.
NUESTRA AMERICA
MAGAZINE
Publisher and
founder of Nuestra America Magazine. A bilingual publication in California's
Ventura County featuring articles for Latinos in the US. In addition,
contributed writer with alternative news stories about Mexico and Latin
America.
Assistant Editor for El Nuevo Tiempo newspaper.
Contributor writer for Vida Newspaper in Oxnard, California; and to magazines and
newspaper in the US. Mexico, Central America and Europe. Managing Editor of the Hotel and Restaurant Workers Union in Los
Angeles.
Managing Editor and Public Relations Director for the United Farm Workers
of America, AFL-CIO responsible for publishing Food & Justice, El Malcriado
and The Migrants. Responsible for press conferences and organizing national and
international media tours.
News reporter and Radio Producer KUFW 90.5 Co-Founder Radio
Campesina. Woodlake, California
Production assistant for directing farm workers union organizing drive TV. Commercials
and the "Wrath of Grapes" documentary video for the United Farm
Workers Union.
Producer for Vision Advertising in the developing and directing TV.
Moreover, Radio Commercials for the Spanish Language Media.
Artistic Director for the International Entertainment Mexican Television Program
"Mexico Magia y Encuentro" in benefit of Plaza de la Raza in Los
Angeles. Journalism and broadcasting instructor and FCC licensed radio news
broadcaster. Production Director for Barrio Bilingual Communications and
journalist for La Raza Magazine.
References:
Finding
Productions, Jackeline Cacho
Conexión Hispana,
Gregorio Gutiérrez.
Cesar E. Chávez
Legacy & Educational Foundation, Jaime P. Martinez
Rumbo Newspaper, Lolbe Corona
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