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Board of Directors
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President
Rafael Olmeda
Assistant City Editor
South Florida Sun-Sentinel
200 E. Las Olas Blvd.
Fort Lauderdale, FL 33301
E-mail: rolmeda@sun-sentinel.com
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Rafael Olmeda is an assistant city editor at the South Florida Sun-Sentinel. He joined the staff of the paper as a general assignment reporter in 1999.
Before that, he spent six years as a reporter for the New York Daily News,covering his home town of the Bronx.
He and a co-writer won third place in the Florida Press Club's contest for Crime Reporting in 1999, and Mr. Olmeda was part of a team that was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize for coverage of the 2004 hurricane season.
Mr. Olmeda joined the board of directors of NAHJ in 2000 as an at-large officer. A year later he was elected Region 4 director, where he organized two Spanish-language journalism conferences while serving as chairman of the association's issues committee. In this role he advocates for fair and
accurate reporting of Latino communities and issues while upholding the highest standards of journalistic excellence.
He is also an adjunct professor of print journalism, general writing and grammar at Florida International University.
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