Bob Navarro, one of the first Latino journalists to appear in Southern California airwaves, has died at 92. He was remembered as a 'role model for integration.'
At a time when few Latinos worked in broadcast news, Bob Navarro became a news writer in Los Angeles at KNXT-TV Channel 2 on “The Big News.” The year was 1967 and, as Navarro recalled decades later, 'When I first came to 'The Big News,' there was a woman reporter, a woman writer, no woman on the desk, no woman producer. That was it. There was an African American, but no Chicanos. I was the first one.
, an organization created in 1972 that advocates for diversity in journalism and accurate portrayals of the Latino community. It was a particularly fraught time for Latinos, who faced racism in the struggle for equal representation. “We weren't integrated throughout, nor was our language, nor was our culture,” Gutiérrez recalled.
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