Juan González Biography
Juan González is a progressive broadcast journalist and investigative reporter from the United States. From 1987 to 2016, he was a columnist for the New York Daily News. He frequently co-hosts Democracy Now! with Amy Goodman on radio and television.
How old is Juan González? – Age
He is 75 years old as of October 15 years old as 2022. He was born in 1947 in Ponce, Puerto Rico.
Juan González Family – Education
González was the son of Juan González, a World War II veteran of the Puerto Rican 65th Infantry, and Florinda Rivera de González. González was born in East Harlem and raised in Brooklyn. González attended Columbia College and graduated in the mid-1960s after serving as editor of his high school newspaper, the Lane Reporter.
Juan González Net Worth
He has an estimated net worth of $40 Million.
Juan González Career
González’s application led to him being hired as a clerk in 1978, but he was quickly promoted to full-time reporter. González got a job as a reporter for The Village Voice in 1987. Soon after his return to New York, González was offered his own column and a higher salary at the New York Daily News, and he chose to work there instead. González received his first George Polk Award in 1998 for “unflinching” investigative reporting while working for the New York Daily News.
González is a former president of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists, where he developed the Parity Project, an innovative program to assist news organizations in recruiting and retaining Hispanic reporters and managers. González was inducted into the National Association of Hispanic Journalists Hall of Fame in 2008. In addition, he was named one of America’s most influential Hispanics by Hispanic Business Magazine, and he received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Hispanic Academy of Media Arts and Sciences. González was the Belle Zeller Visiting Professor in Public Policy and Administration at Brooklyn College/CUNY for two years, with appointments in both the Department of Puerto Rican and Latino Studies and the Department of Political Science.
He reported the findings of an exclusive interview with the alleged “fourth man” who was present at the scene on November 25, 2006, when plainclothes NYPD officers shot and killed Sean Bell.González has written extensively in New York Daily News columns about the health effects of the September 11 attacks and the cover-up of Ground Zero air hazards. He was the first New York City reporter to write about the health consequences of the September 11, 2001 attacks.
González received the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund’s Justice in Action Award in 2010 and the George Polk Award a second time in 2011 for a series of columns in the New York Daily News that exposed criminal acts connected with then-Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s CityTime project, a new computerized payroll system, leading to the federal indictment of four consultancies for fraud. González and Amy Goodman’s voices were used (uncredited) over news footage about Hurricane Katrina in the opening montage of New Orleans at the beginning of the action-drama film Streets of Blood (2009). He has stated that “a sense about the unjust treatment of people” has been a driving force in his work.
González was inducted into the Society of Professional Journalists’ New York Journalism Hall of Fame in 2015, alongside Max Frankel, Charlie Rose, Lesley Stahl, Paul Steiger, and Richard Stolley. He has been a Professor of Professional Practice at Rutgers University-New Brunswick’s School of Communication and Information since 2018.
Juan González Books
♦ Fallout: The Environmental Consequences of the World Trade Center Collapse
♦ Harvest of Empire: A History of Latinos in America
♦ Roll Down Your Window: Stories of a Forgotten America
♦ Reclaiming Gotham: Bill de Blasio and the Movement to End America’s Tale of Two Cities