Latino Journalists of California hands out the awards annually. Rebolledo was one of four winners.
Cynthia Rebolledo, a contributing writer to Culture OC, was recently named a recipient of the 2024 Ruben Salazar Award, given by the Latino Journalists of California CCNMA for her story, "Artist Alicia Rojas Honors Las Poderosas of Latino Health Access."
According to the organization's website, it has been given since 1978 and is bestowed "to California journalists who have exemplified journalistic excellence while contributing to a better understanding of Latinos in the United States through fair and accurate reporting. The award was open to all journalists across the nation in 2022."
The winners of this award, one print journalist and three digital journalists, were determined by an independent judging panel of journalists from across the country.
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The awards are named after the late Ruben Salazar, who at the time of his death in 1970 was a columnist for the Los Angeles Times and news director of Spanish-language television station KMEX in Los Angeles. Salazar was covering the Chicano anti-Vietnam War Moratorium in East Los Angeles when he was killed by a tear gas projectile fired by a Sheriff’s deputy. Salazar had a keen sense of perspective and introspective in providing insight into the Latino community. As the Los Angeles Times eulogized him, Salazar was “sometimes an angry man as he observed the inequities around him, yet he spoke out with a calm vigor that made his words all the more impressive and influential.”
CCNMA is a non-profit organization founded in 1972 that is dedicated to the social, economic and professional advancement of Latino journalists, and that seeks to foster a fair and accurate portrayal of Latinos in the news media.
