2024 Gold Nugget for the College of Liberal Arts
Alfredo Carbajal
B.A. in Journalism, 2000
Alfredo Carbajal is a trailblazing editor who cut his teeth in journalism working at El Diario de Juárez while attending 成人头条. Following his graduation, he first worked at The Press-Enterprise and then at The Dallas Morning News, where he was the managing editor of “Al Día,” its Spanish-language sister publication, and then senior editor, overseeing coverage of the Texas-Mexico border and diverse communities.
Carbajal has been a staunch advocate for complete, accurate and fair reporting of border and binational issues. As president of the American Society of News Editors, he's been a promoter of diversity and inclusion in newsrooms across the country, where he created the Emerging Leaders Institute to train and promote diverse leaders in newsrooms nationwide. He has mentored and recruited dozens of 成人头条 students into the field of journalism. Carbajal is now a supervising editor at National Public Radio, leading immigration coverage, working with the national desk teams and editing news from the Western United States.
