Joe Torres (journalist)

Joe Torres (born on June 2, 1971 in Brooklyn, New York) is a Hispanic-American journalist and author.

Joe Torres is senior adviser for government and external affairs for Free Press and the Free Press Action Fund (an advocacy arm of Free Press), a non-governmental organization for research and policy lobbying related to media reform. Free Press lobbies in Washington, D.C. and in the states, with the goal of supporting diversity and independence in U.S. media.^[1] Torres was also deputy director of communications and media policy at the National Association of Hispanic Journalists and was a journalist for eight years.

Career

Torres is a news anchor and reporter for WABC-TV in New York. Torres serves as a reporter and occasional substitute anchor (usually substituting for Bill Ritter) on the station's weeknight Eyewitness News broadcast, as well as anchoring the station's Saturday and Sunday night newscasts with Sandra Bookman. Torres also hosts Tiempo, WABC's long-running Hispanic-centric current affairs program that airs on Sunday mornings.

Prior to his joining WABC-TV, Torres worked at WSAV-TV in Savannah, Georgia, WNEP-TV in Scranton-Wilkes-Barre, and WPVI-TV in Philadelphia.

Writing

Torres is co-author, with Juan González, of "News for All the People: The Epic Story of Race and the American Media" (2011, ISBN 978-1-84467-687-3), a history of the American media with special focus on media outlets owned and controlled by people of color, and how they were suppressed—sometimes violently—by mainstream political, corporate and media leaders.

External links

• 7Online.com: Joe Torres - official WABC-TV bio

References