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Dr. Félix GutiérrezSenior Vice President/Newseum and Former Executive Director of The Freedom Forum Pacific Coast Center Phone: Email:
Felix Gutierrez is senior vice president/Newseum and former executive director of The Freedom Forum Pacific Coast Center. He previously served as dean and journalism professor at the University of Southern California from 1979 to 1990 and California State University-Northridge from 1974 to 1979. In the late 1980s, he also covered media issues for the Los Angeles bureau of the Associated Press. He is author or co-author of four books and more than 45 scholarly articles or book chapters on the media, focusing on technological and cultural changes in the media. His co-authored book, Race, Multiculturalism and the Media: From Mass to Class Communication, was awarded the 1996 Gustavus Myers Award as Outstanding Book on Human Rights in North America. A native of East Los Angeles, he is a member of the board of directors of United Methodist Communications. He has been a scholar at the Tomas Rivera Center in Claremont and consultant on Latino media issues to community, corporate, nonprofit and government organizations. In June 1995 the National Association of Hispanic Journalists named him the "Padrino" (Godfather) of Latino journalists. In 1987 the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) presented him its President's Award in recognition of his service to journalism education. He was the first executive director of the California Chicano News Media Association from 1978 to 1980 and dean of Student Academic Services and Special Programs at USC from 1989 to 1990. His education includes a master's and doctorate in communication from Stanford University, a master's from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University, and a bachelor's degree in social studies from California State College-Los Angeles, where he edited an award-winning campus daily newspaper and later served as student body president. He joined The Freedom Forum's predecessor, the Gannett Foundation, in January 1990 and was responsible for day-to-day administration of the journalism education and professional grants and programs through October 1993. In November 1993 he moved from The Freedom Forum's World Center in Arlington, Va., to develop The Freedom Forum Pacific Coast Center, now closed. |