Noticiero Pací­fica

Noticiero Pací­fica:  Fighting against disinformation and denouncing those who remain silent.  *  A voice for Latin Americans in Southern California.  *  A pioneer in Spanish programming at KPFK and part of the Spanish-language block on Saturdays.

Carlos Quintanilla has been a journalist for more than twelve years. He earned a degree in journalism with an emphasis in Radio Broadcasting. He also finished KPFK's fifteen-month Apprenticeship Program in 1992. He has traveled to several countries and taken part in seminars and workshops about community radio. Quintanilla also writes for news agencies and newspapers in Latin America. He is Radio Bilingue's correspondent in Los Angeles. He also writes for Change-Links, Montelibre and other papers in the U.S.A. In 1987, Quintanilla joined Noticiero Pací­fica as a Los Angeles reporter. In 1992, Quintanilla became Noticiero's executive producer. He strengthens the links with news agencies, community radio stations and journalists who are committed to their people and know the Latin American reality. Quintanilla's main goals are to defy partial and untrue information, full of lies and falsities broadcast by the reactionary press. The journalist has made this segment a spotlight for social justice.