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Ricardo Sandoval-Palos

public editor

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  • Protecting Sources: What Journalists Need to Know Now on Saturday, May 3, 2025

Ricardo Sandoval-Palos is the public editor of the Public Broadcasting Service — the interlocutor between audiences and PBS and its community of creative teams. He is an award-winning investigative reporter and multimedia editor who helped shape reporting teams of nonprofit newsrooms and recently co-founded palabra, the digital magazine of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists. Ricardo is a former supervising editor of NPR’s Morning Edition broadcast, an editor with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists and The Sacramento Bee, and a Latin America correspondent for U.S. newspapers. Before that, he was an investigative business reporter in California and co-author of the award-winning biography, The Fight in the Fields: Cesar Chavez and the Farmworkers Movement.