The National Association of Hispanic Journalists (NAHJ) is a Washington, D.C.-based organization dedicated to the advancement of

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and Latino journalists in the United States and

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. It was established in 1984. NAHJ has approximately 2,300 members, including working journalists,

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students, other media-related professionals and journalism educators. Its president in 2012–2019 was Hugo Balta, Coordinating Producer for ESPN. Under the leadership of Juan González in 2002-2004, NAHJ created the Parity Project to assist news organizations in hiring and retaining Hispanic journalists and improving coverage of the Hispanic communities across the U.S. NAHJ is one of the few journalist associations to take a stand against media consolidation, largely due to the influence of Gonzalez and former presidents Verónica Villafañe (2004–2006) and Rafael Olmeda (2006–2008). NAHJ is a former partner organization of Unity Journalists of Color, Inc.

Hall of Fame

In annual awards since 2000, the NAHJ recognizes great achievements. For 2013, David Gonzales and

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were honored. Previous honorees (with short notes in "quotes" being NAHJ website wordings) are: 2013: * David Gonzales *

2012: * California Chicano News Media Association, first organization to achieve the award. 2011: *

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: "Assistant Dean for Career Services at

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" 2010: *

Ray Suarez Rafael Suarez, Jr. (born March 5, 1957), known as Ray Suarez, is an American broadcast journalist and author. He is currently a visiting professor at NYU Shanghai and was previously the John J. McCloy Visiting Professor of American Studies at Am ...

: "Senior Correspondent,

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: "Anchor,

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-Dallas" 2009: *

Geraldo Rivera Geraldo Rivera (born Gerald Riviera; July 4, 1943) is an American journalist, attorney, author, political commentator, and former television host. He hosted the tabloid talk show '' Geraldo'' from 1987 to 1998. He gained publicity with the liv ...

: "Host, Fox’s newsmagazine “Geraldo-at-Large” *

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: "Anchor,

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(San Francisco) “Weekend Morning News” *Juan Gonzalez: "Founder and Editor, El Tecolote; professor of journalism, City College of San Francisco" 2008: *Juan Gonzalez: "Columnist, New York Daily News; former president, NAHJ" *

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: "Professor, University of Texas at Austin, media activist" *

Francisco P. Ramirez Francisco is the Spanish and Portuguese form of the masculine given name '' Franciscus''. Nicknames In Spanish, people with the name Francisco are sometimes nicknamed " Paco". San Francisco de Asís was known as ''Pater Comunitatis'' (father o ...

: "Founder, El Clamor Publico (Los Angeles)" 2007 *

Cecilia Alvear Cecilia Alvear (November 5, 1939, – April 21, 2017) was an Ecuadorian-born American journalist in television news and the former president of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists, was a Field Producer with NBC Network News in Burban ...

: "retired producer, NBC, former president, NAHJ" *

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: "three-time Emmy winner; president,

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(RCA)" * George Ramos: "a three-time Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter, The

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; professor,

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(San Luis Obispo, CA)" 2006: *

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: "veteran anchor, “ Noticiero Univision”; founding member, NAHJ" *

Henry Alfaro Henry may refer to: People *Henry (given name) *Henry (surname) * Henry Lau, Canadian singer and musician who performs under the mononym Henry Royalty * Portuguese royalty ** King-Cardinal Henry, King of Portugal ** Henry, Count of Portugal ...

: "one of the first Mexican-American TV reporters, worked for 35 years at

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(Los Angeles)" 2005: *

Gerald Garcia, Jr. Gerald is a male Germanic given name meaning "rule of the spear" from the prefix ''ger-'' ("spear") and suffix ''-wald'' ("rule"). Variants include the English given name Jerrold, the feminine nickname Jeri and the Welsh language Gerallt and Irish ...

: "former publisher,

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(Arizona); founding member and first president of

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" 2004 *

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: "founder, La Opinion" 2003: *

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: "former professor of journalism, Michigan State University; journalism Scholar" *

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: columnist,

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" 2002: *

Paul Espinosa Paul Allen Espinosa is an American politician and a Republican member of the West Virginia House of Delegates representing District 66 since January 12, 2013. Education Espinosa earned his bachelor's degree in Child Services from West Virginia We ...

: "independent producer, writer and director" *

Felix Gutiérrez Felix may refer to: * Felix (name), people and fictional characters with the name Places * Arabia Felix is the ancient Latin name of Yemen * Felix, Spain, a municipality of the province Almería, in the autonomous community of Andalusia, ...

: "author, educator and activist" *

Frank del Olmo Frank del Olmo (May 18, 1948 — February 19, 2004) was an editor, columnist and reporter for the Los Angeles Times, where he started as an intern in 1970. He graduated magna cum laude from California State University, Northridge with a degree in ...

: "former associate editor, the ''

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: "assistant METPRO director and hiring editor, Los An