News and Public Affairs Director, Executive Producer
Raul Ramirez has been News and Public Affairs Director of KQED Public Radio since 1991. He has
worked as reporter for The Miami Herald and The Washington Post, and as a reporter and editor
for the Oakland Tribune and the San Francisco Examiner, where he was editor of the paper's
Investigative Team. He is former president of the board of the Center for Investigative
Reporting and has won numerous awards for local, national and international reporting, including
a Thomas Storke award from the World Affairs Council of Northern California for his reporting
on a family's journey from rural Guandong Province in China to the San Francisco area, and a
1989 Penney-Missouri award as a co-editor of the San Francisco Examiner's unique series on "Gay
in America."
In 1999, he received a career achievement award from the Society of Professional Journalists of
Northern California for his print and broadcast work. He is a former fellow in Asian Studies at
the University of Hawaii's Center for Asian and Pacific Studies and a 1994 fellow at Harvard
University's Shorenstein Barone Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy. He has taught
journalism courses at San Francisco State University since 1983. He also has taught at the
University of California at Berkeley has been a visiting faculty member at the Poynter Institute
in Media Studies, where he was an ethics fellow. He has served on visiting on-site evaluation
teams for the Accrediting Council on Education in Journalism and Mass Communications at
universities in Kentucky, Ohio and California.
Raul Ramirez was a principal writer for the seminal UNITY national conference analysis of U.S.
media coverage of ethnic and racial minorities, and frequently lectures on topics related to
diversity and news media. He has led investigative reporting and civic journalism training
workshops at the European Journalism Center in the Netherlands and has led training workshops
in several Ukrainian locations in collaboration with the Journalists' Initiative Association
of Kharkiv, Ukraine. He is a member of the board of directors of the Institute for Regional
Media and Information, a non-profit organization created by Ukrainian and Western European
journalists to aid and promote the development of independent media in Ukraine.
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