Samuel Orozco

Samuel Orozco is founding executive producer for Noticiero Latino and Línea Abierta, and has been the architect and director of Radio Bilingüe’s news and information department since 1983, supervising all national programming. Mr. Orozco is a producer who has extensive experience in live coverage of special events and in-depth reporting. In 1996, he was a Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation Fellow, which helped him develop a robust and recognized health journalism beat for Radio Bilingüe. His production of “Acontecer Campesino,” a series about farmworkers, earned him the National Federation of Community Broadcaster’s Golden Reel award. The National Association of Hispanic Journalists honored him with the Best Continuing News Coverage award. Mr. Orozco has developed a number of special award-winning programs for Radio Bilingüe’s audiences, including an in-depth look into the state of immigrant children in public schools, communities around the United States that solve issues of ethnic conflict, landmark cases of environmental justice, and emerging issues in the health care field. He conducted the first live bilingual radio coverage of the Republican and Democratic presidential conventions in 1984 and in 2008 traveled the United States providing live, multiplatform coverage of the presidential election season. Mr. Orozco has been an organizer, speaker, and participant in many regional and binational conferences on Mexican immigrants and Central American refugees. He has also been a panelist in a number of public radio conferences in the United States and Mexico. He was the oral historian for the books To the Promised Land and Organizing for Our Lives: New Voices from Rural Communities. Mr. Orozco is a native of Sonora, Mexico, and studied mathematics at the Universidad de Sonora.