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Anne Vasquez
Anne Vasquez
Anne Vasquez is a veteran media and nonprofit executive who previously served as CEO of EdSource, Inc., an award-winning California nonprofit news organization with the stateís largest newsroom devoted to education.
The Television Academy Foundation has announced the appointment of Anne Vasquez as its executive director. She will oversee daily operations and provide strategic leadership of its programs and fundraising to fulfill the charitable organizationís mission to identify, advance and empower future television leaders.
Anne Vasquez is a veteran media and nonprofit executive who previously served as CEO of EdSource, Inc., an award-winning California nonprofit news organization with the stateís largest newsroom devoted to education.
The Television Academy Foundation has announced the appointment of Anne Vasquez as its executive director. She will oversee daily operations and provide strategic leadership of its programs and fundraising to fulfill the charitable organizationís mission to identify, advance and empower future television leaders.
Prior to her five years at EdSource, she served as senior vice president of strategic initiatives and chief digital officer at Tribune Publishing, where she led digital strategy across 10 news markets. Before that, Vasquez was managing editor of the Sun Sentinel in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., when the newsroom won its first Pulitzer Prize - the 2013 Gold Medal for Public Service. Sheís also served as a senior consultant to the Hollywood trade magazine TheWrap and is an adjunct professor at the University of Southern California (USC), where she teaches a graduate course in narrative storytelling.
The daughter of Cuban immigrants, Vasquez was raised in Miami, FL, and began her career as a reporter for The Miami Herald and later for the San Jose Mercury News in California. A passionate champion of diversity and inclusion, she became the editor of one of the country's first race and demographics teams.
Vasquez has served on the boards of the American Society of News Editors and the National Association of Hispanic Journalists. She is on the Leadership Council of the Kopenhaver Center for the Advancement of Women in Communication at Florida International University, Vasquez's alma mater.
updated 4.30.24
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