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Raul Ramirez

KQED Public Radio's executive director for news and public affairs in San Francisco
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Fellow for Digital Leadership Summit for Public Radio Stations

Raul Ramirez is KQED Public Radio's executive director for news and public affairs in San Francisco. As news director since 1991, he led the launching of KQED Radio's statewide news service, The California Report, of the national Asian-Pacific program, Pacific Time, and other programs. He was a reporter for The Miami Herald and The Washington Post and a reporter and editor for the Oakland Tribune and the San Francisco Examiner, where he was editor of the paper's investigative team. He has won numerous awards for local, national and international reporting, including a Thomas Storke award from the World Affairs Council of Northern California for his reporting on a family's journey from rural Guandong Province in China to the U.S., and a Penney-Missouri award as a co-editor of the San Francisco Examiner's unique series on "Gay in America." He has reported from Nicaragua, Honduras, El Salvador, Panama, Mexico, Japan, Thailand and elsewhere in Southeast Asia. In 1999, he received a career achievement award from the Society of Professional Journalists of Northern California for his print and broadcast work. He is a former Fellow in Asian Studies at the University of Hawaii's Center for Asian and Pacific Studies and was a Fellow at Harvard University's Shorenstein Barone Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy. He has taught journalism at San Francisco State University, at the University of California at Berkeley and at the Poynter Institute in Media Studies, where he was an Ethics Fellow. Ramirez is a graduate of the University of Florida's College of Journalism and Communications.