Ricardo Sandoval-Palos is Public Editor for PBS — the network’s liaison with audiences. He’s an award-winning investigative reporter and editor, and an adviser to nonprofit organizations including the Ida B. Wells Society for Investigative Journalism and the First Amendment Coalition. He is the founding editor of Palabra, the digital magazine of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists. This year, NAHJ inducted Ricardo into its Hall of Fame. He is also a former supervising editor of NPR’s Morning Edition and an editor with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists.
His newspaper career includes tenures as a Latin America correspondent for The Dallas Morning News and as an investigative reporter for the San Jose Mercury News and the San Francisco Examiner, where he investigated public utility misspending and banking fraud. In 1997, Harcourt published the biography he co-authored, The Fight in the Fields: Cesar Chavez and the Farmworkers Movement.