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Former WSJ editor joins Heritage Foundation

March 31, 2009 by Veronica Villafañe

Michael M. Gonzalez, who worked at the Wall Street Journal for 11 years, was named VP of communications at the Heritage Foundation, a public policy research institute.

A veteran foreign correspondent, Michael covered the stock market before editing the WSJ’s opinion pages in Europe and Asia. He started his journalism career with the Agence France-Presse wire service from 1987 to 1993. He left the WSJ in 2005 to take a speechwriting job at the Securities and Exchange Commission. A year later, he went on to become a communications adviser and speechwriter on European and Eurasian issues at the State Department. In 2008, Michael became director of corporate affairs at First Solar, an Arizona manufacturer of solar-power modules..

Michael was born in Cuba and moved to the U.S. when he was 14. He has a B.A. in communications from Emerson College and a master’s in business administration from Columbia Business School.

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Emmy award-winning journalist and former president of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists (NAHJ). Currently a reporter for Voice of America, she has worked as an on-air reporter, anchor, writer and producer for Spanish and English-language TV, print and online media, including Univision, Telemundo, Fox 11 News in L.A. and the San Jose Mercury News.

Hispanic media and entertainment contributor to Forbes.

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