Web site: FrankMoraga.com

Extensive background in journalism and community relations provides a strong benefit for private and non-profit organizations seeking to better serve their target audience through a combination of new technology and development of strong personal relationships.

Communications — Comprehensive experience writing news, business, feature stories and opinion pieces for publication. Worked with fellow directors, editors and other co-workers in communicating the goals of my business segment.
Community relations — As a diversity director, general manager, editor and reporter, represented previous employers by interacting with the public, attending various community functions and serving on nonprofit boards of directors and other working groups.
Financial — Oversaw $500,000 budget for a bilingual publication and various budgets for the production of daily and weekly business sections.
Flexible — Ability to juggle multiple deadlines, prioritize projects.
Interpersonal skills — Priority in seeking consensus solutions to new initiatives and challenges.
Language — Strong written and oral skills. Conversant in Spanish.
Marketing — Developed press releases, newsletters and other materials for local nonprofits.
Multimedia — Besides writing for print publications, have skills in web design, video production, digital photography and publication design.
Supervision — Oversaw staff of business reporters, business design editors, bilingual reporters and editors, freelance writers, translators and photographers.
Technology — Skills in InDesign, iMovie, iWeb, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft PowerPoint, Photoshop, Quark CopyDesk, QuarkXPress and Word.

Attended Videomaker Magazine introduction in video production seminar in Chino, CA.
Attended the American Press Institute seminar on “Reaching Latino Audiences” in Miami, FLA.
Attended various conferences and seminars presented by the Foundation for
American Communications, the Minority Writers Seminar presented by the National Conference of Editorial Writers, the National Association of Hispanic Journalists, the Poynter Institute, the Society of American Business Editors and Writers, the Society of News Design and the Society of Professional Journalists.
Selected for the International Center for Journalists two-week Japan fellowship program for community reporters and editors.
Attended the American Press Institute seminar on business reporting in Reston, Va.
Continuing education including Photoshop series at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
A graduate of California State University, Long Beach with a bachelor’s degree in history (Latin America emphasis) and a bachelor’s degree in journalism (print emphasis).
A graduate of Ventura County Community College, associate’s degree in journalism.

Director of diversity, Ventura County Star, 2004 — 2008. Promoting diversity awareness programs throughout the newspaper and developing community diversity outreach projects.
General manager, Editor, Mi Estrella, the Star’s weekly bilingual publication, 2005 — 2008. Responsible for overseeing Mi Estrella’s strategic growth in the areas of advertising, circulation, editorial content, marketing and production.
Wrote a weekly diversity column, 2004 — 2008.
Diversity writer providing coverage of diversity issues in the community, 2002 — 2004.
Business editor, Ventura County Star, 1994 — 2002.

Previous positions — Business editor for Thomson Newspapers’ operations in Camarillo, Oxnard and Ventura; environmental reporter, city beat reporter and business reporter for the Ventura Star-Free Press and community reporter for the Los Angeles Daily News and the Orange County Register.

Current member of the Ventura County Community Foundation’s Destino Vision Committee.
Lifetime member of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists.
Past member of the board of directors for El Concilio del Condado de Ventura.
Founding member of the Tri-Counties Chapter of CCNMA — Latino Journalists of California.
Member of the Alumni & Friends Association for the Ventura College Journalism Program.
Past member of the scholarship committee for the Ventura County Community Foundation.
Past member of the planning committee for the Oxnard College Youth Leadership Conference.