Press Release
February 6, 2007
L.A. Board of Supervisors Honors Former NAHJ Prez Cecilia Alvear
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Former NAHJ president Cecilia Alvear will be honored by Los Angeles Board of Supervisors Chairman Zev Yaroslavsky Tuesday, February 13, 2007 for her 30 years of service to broadcast journalism and to the city of Los Angeles. Alvear, who recently retired, was the first Latina producer for the NBC News Network. The ceremony will take place at 10:00 a.m. in the Board of Supervisors Hearing Room 381-B, Kenneth Hahn Hall of Administration.
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As a pioneering Latina journalist, she was involved from the beginning of her career in the U.S. in advocating for more Latino journalists in the newsroom and improved coverage of Latino issues. She has been a dedicated member of NAHJ since the 1980’s and was a board member and Vice President of the California Chicano News Media Association. She was honored for her pioneering efforts on behalf of CCNMA at their 1996 scholarship dinner.
Prior to being elected president of NAHJ in 2000, she served two terms as Vice President-Broadcast and represented NAHJ on the board of the Radio and Television News Directors Association.
Cecilia was one of twelve American journalists chosen for the prestigious Nieman Fellowship at Harvard University where she spent the academic year 1988-89.
Born in the Galapagos Islands of Ecuador, Cecilia Alvear immigrated to the United States in the 1960s and became a U.S. citizen in 1984. She frequently returns to the Galapagos, where she is helping to upgrade the public elementary school first started by her late father, the former military governor of the islands.
Read Alvear's biography on Wikipedia
Read Alvear's biography from City of Hope
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