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Villa named Univision news director in Phoenix

Posted on 24 January 2011. Tags: , , ,

Juan Villa has been named news director at Univision’s O&O in Phoenix. He’ll be taking a break before he starts his new gig in February. He replaces Marcos Flores, who left KTVW-33 to take the vacant Executive Producer position at L.A.’s KMEX-34.

Until last Thursday, Juan was Executive News Producer at the Telemundo station in Phoenix (KTAZ-39) where he worked for the past 7 years in several roles, including Managing Editor and Community Relations Manager.

Prior to joining NBC/Telemundo Arizona, he worked at La Voz newspaper as a general assignment reporter and Chief of Information. Juan began his professional career as a news assistant at KPHO 1480 AM Spanish radio station in 1995 and later joined Radio Unica.

A graduate of Arizona State University’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communications, he is currently working on a PhD degree.

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I'm an Emmy award-winning journalist, who's worked as an on-air reporter in Spanish and English-language television news. I've worked for Univision, Telemundo, CNN en Español and Los Angeles Fox and UPN stations before diving into a convergence model at the San Jose Mercury News. I was president of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists from 2004 to 2006, and inducted into the Hall of Fame in August of 2016. As an online news manager, I was West Coast Web Editor for impreMedia and Managing Editor of IntersectionsSouthLA.org. In addition to running Media Moves, which I founded in June of 2007, I'm a regular contributor to Forbes and also do freelance work as writer, reporter and producer.
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