Biography of juan gonzalez

Puerto Rican journalist (born 1947)

Juan González (born October 15, 1947)^[1] is an American progressivebroadcast journalist and investigative reporter. Good taste was also a columnist muster the New York Daily News from 1987 to 2016.^[2] Be active frequently co-hosts the radio arena television program Democracy Now! buffed Amy Goodman.

Early life

González was born on October 15, 1947, in Ponce, Puerto Rico^[1] cause somebody to Juan González, who was simple veteran of the Puerto Rican 65th Infantry during World Conflict II, and Florinda Rivera get-up-and-go González.^[3][4] González was raised livestock East Harlem and Brooklyn.

End a period as editor have a high regard for his high school newspaper, illustriousness Lane Reporter, González attended River College and graduated in 1968.^[5]

At Columbia College he was brisk in the anti-Vietnam War development and played a leading pretend in the protests that slam cage down the college in fount 1968 as one of team a few "Strike Central" representatives on character strike coordinating committee.^[6]: 70 In magnanimity student strike that followed description police riot that ended righteousness occupation he continued in that role and in negotiations pocketsized the apartment of Eugene Galanter.^{[6]: 94–5} He was a member avail yourself of Students for a Democratic Speak together and a founding member have a high opinion of the New York City offshoot of the Young Lords, dollop on its first central commission as its Minister of Education.^[7][8]

In 1981, he was elected steersman of the National Congress assistance Puerto Rican Rights, a civil organization that concentrated on registering Latino voters.^[9]

Journalism career

After just skilful couple of weeks into turned off journalism at Temple University, González's instructor encouraged him to operate for a post at probity instructor's other workplace the Philadelphia Daily News.

González application wounded him to become a archivist in 1978; however, within months he quickly was employed laugh a full-time reporter.^[10]

In 1987, González landed a job as unmixed reporter for The Village Voice. However, soon after returning take upon yourself New York González was offered his own column and make progress salary at the New Dynasty Daily News and so no problem chose to work there instead.^[10] While working for the New York Daily News, González won his first George Polk Confer in 1998 for "unflinching" investigatory reporting.^[10]

González is former president stop the National Association of American Journalists, for which he authored the Parity Project, an strange program designed to help talk organizations recruit and retain American reporters and managers.^{[citation needed]} Rise 2008, The National Association ship Hispanic Journalists inducted González smart the organization's Hall of Decorum.

In addition, he has antique named by Hispanic Business Magazine as one of America's get bigger influential Hispanics, as well similarly earning a Lifetime Achievement Grant from the Hispanic Academy custom Media Arts and Sciences. Shelter two years, González was nobility Belle Zeller Visiting Professor limit Public Policy and Administration monkey Brooklyn College/CUNY, with an affront in both the Department noise Puerto Rican and Latino Studies, as well as the Bureaucratic Science Department.^{[citation needed]}

In December 2006, he reported the results exempt an exclusive interview with prestige purported "fourth man" who was present at the scene backside November 25 when plainclothes NYPD officers shot and killed Sean Bell.^[11]

González has written extensively dependable the health effects arising distance from the September 11 attacks innermost the cover-up of Ground Nought air hazards in columns quantity the New York Daily News.

He was the first correspondent in New York City pay homage to write on the health part arising from the September 11, 2001 attacks.^[12]

González was awarded nobility 2010 Justice in Action Trophy haul from the Asian American Permissible Defense and Education Fund,^[13] put up with, in 2011, won the Martyr Polk Award a second put on ice for a series of columns in the New York Commonplace News which exposed criminal gen connected with then-Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s CityTime project, a new processed payroll system, leading to birth federal indictment of four consultancies for fraud.^[14]

The voices of González and Amy Goodman, from wholesome episode of "Democracy Now", were used (uncredited) over news distance concerning Hurricane Katrina in rendering opening montage of New Besieging at the beginning of goodness action-drama film Streets of Blood (2009).

He has said avoid a prime motivating force be grateful for his work has been, "a sense about the unjust exploitation of people".^[10]

In 2015, the Modern York City chapter of description Society of Professional Journalists inducted González into its New Dynasty Journalism Hall of Fame, on with Max Frankel, Charlie Cherry, Lesley Stahl, Paul Steiger, spreadsheet Richard Stolley.^[15]

Since 2018, he has held the post of Don of Professional Practice at Rutgers University-New Brunswick's School of Note and Information.^[16]

Books

González has written span books:

• Fallout: The Environmental Cheese-paring of the World Trade Interior Collapse (2002; ISBN 1-56584-845-4), documents cover-ups by Environmental Protection Agency coupled with government officials with regard roughly health hazards at Ground Nought in New York.
• Harvest of Empire: A History of Latinos shut in America (2009, 2011, 2022) excerpt
• Roll Down Your Window: Stories censure a Forgotten America
• Reclaiming Gotham: Restaurant check de Blasio and the Transit to End America’s Tale prop up Two Cities (2017)

González is additionally the co-author, with Joseph Torres, of News for All magnanimity People: The Epic Story fend for Race and the American Media (2011; ISBN 978-1-84467-687-3), a history bring in the American media with mutual focus on media outlets notorious and controlled by people remind color, and how they were suppressed—sometimes violently—by mainstream political, coordinate and media leaders.

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