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Bio

Rick Rodriguez is Carnegie Professor of Journalism at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism at Arizona State University. During a 25-year career at the Sacramento Bee, he served as executive editor, managing editor, columnist, projects editor, editorial writer, deputy capitol bureau chief and reporter. While executive editor, his staff won numerous awards, including the Pulitzer Prize for feature photography in 2007, the George Polk award for investigative reporting and the Robert F. Kennedy Award. Rodriguez also worked as a reporter at the Fresno Bee and the Salinas Californian. He was the first Latino to serve as president of the American Society of Newspaper Editors.