DANIEL VASQUEZ

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DANIEL VASQUEZ is an award-winning journalist and columnist, who has covered crime, courts, politics and consumer technology. He is a Pulitzer Prize Finalist in Editorial Writing for a yearlong series on ethics and government published by the San Jose Mercury News. He also has worked for The Boston Globe, San Francisco Chronicle, Oakland Tribune and South Florida Sun Sentinel. After leaving the newspaper industry, he spent two years as a brand marketing writer for Studio 1847 based in Los Angeles, winning a national Pearl Award and an International News Media Association award. As a freelancer, Daniel has broken the national and international story of the police shooting death of actress Vanessa Marquez (“Stand and Deliver,” “ER”) and wrote a magazine-length piece about a retired LAPD detective’s pursuit for the truth about his father’s role in the Black Dahlia murder, LA’s most notorious unsolved killing. More recently, was named Managing Editor for CALÓ NEWS, a Los Angeles-based newsroom dedicated to coverage of Latino/a/x community in California. Daniel previously served as the Editor and Director of the California Student Journalism Corps for EdSource, a non-profit newsroom with the largest education news team in the state. Daniel has also coached and mentored interns for Bay City News and Local News Matters. He is also a guest speaker at University of Southern California, California State University, Los Angeles and various other campuses.