Ricardo Sandoval-Palos is the Public Editor for PBS. He monitors ethics, integrity and standards for the network. He’s also an advisor to organizations such as the Ida B. Wells Society for Investigative Journalism, the First Amendment Coalition, the Puente News Collaborative, and the San Francisco Public Press and Public Health Watch nonprofit newsrooms.
In 45 years of print and broadcast journalism, Ricardo built a career as an award-winning investigative reporter and editor. His work in Latin America for the Dallas Morning News and the San Jose Mercury News was recognized with top awards from the Overseas Press Club and the InterAmerican Press Association. Before that, Ricardo won accolades for his investigations into corrupt California bankers and politicians, and public utilities that misused customers’ money. In 1997 he co-authored “The Fight In The Fields: Cesar Chavez and the Farmworkers Movement,” a biography that remains a definitive history of the Latino civil rights movements of the 1960s and 70s.
