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July 31, 2009
NAHJ Elects New Members to its Board of Directors
NAHJ completed elections for 10 positions on its board of directors on Tuesday night. Eight region directors, a student representative, and a secretary were elected by the membership via electronic voting.
Region director positions run for two years, from now until June 2011. The student representative’s term is for one year, ending in June 2010. The term of the secretary, elected to fill a vacancy, also ends in June of 2010 when NAHJ will hold elections for the top eight officers of the organization’s board and announce the winners at its convention in Denver, Colorado.
Lifetime, regular and academic members were able to vote for the secretary and the region director of their respective region. Student members were eligible to vote for the student representative. With 254 votes cast, overall turnout was 19 percent.
The new board members will occupy their new positions immediately. Those positions with asterisks (*) were elected in this most recent balloting.
President - O. Ricardo Pimentel, Editorial Page Editor, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
VP Print - Elizabeth Zavala, Deputy City Editor, Fort Worth Star-Telegram
VP Broadcast - Hugo Balta, Vice President of News & News Director, WNJU Telemundo 47
(New York/New Jersey)
Secretary* - Gustavo Reveles Acosta, Reporter, El Paso Times
Financial Officer - Dino Chiecchi, Hispanic Publications Editor, San Antonio Express-News
At-Large, General - Brandon Benavides, News Producer, KSTP-TV 5/Eyewitness News
(Minneapolis)
At-Large, Spanish - Patricio Espinoza, Independent Producer, Journalist, San Antonio
At-Large, Online - Robert Hernandez, Assistant Professor of Professional Practice,
USC Annenberg School of Journalism (Los Angeles)
Student Rep.* - Ada Alvarez, Florida International University
Region 1 Director* - Miguel Angel Rosa, Camarógrafo/Editor, WIPR-TV Canal 6 Noticias
(San Juan)
Region 2 Director* - Maria Burns Ortiz, Sports Writer/Freelance Journalist, ESPN.com
Region 3 Director* - Jessica Durkin, Freelance Journalist, Scranton, Pa.
Region 4 Director* - Roberto Pazos, Editor de Asignaciones, CNN en Español (Atlanta)
Region 5 Director* - Manuel De La Rosa, Reporter, KIII-TV (Corpus Christi, Texas)
Region 6 Director* - Fernando Diaz, Community Manager for News & Opinion, Chicago Now
Project
Region 7 Director* - Angela Clemmons, Sports Copy Chief, The Denver Post
Region 8 Director* - Elaine Aradillas, Reporter, People magazine (Los Angeles)
Founded in 1984, NAHJ's mission is to increase the percentage of Latinos working in our nation's newsrooms and to improve news coverage of the Latino community. NAHJ is the nation's largest professional organization for Latino journalists with more than 2,300 members working in English and Spanish-language print, photo, broadcast and online media. NAHJ is a 501 (c)(3) tax-exempt non-profit organization. For more information, visit www.nahj.org.
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