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Lara named GM of Univision Radio

Posted on 18 January 2017. Tags: ,

Jesus LaraUnivision finally has someone taking over the leadership of its radio division. The company today announced it has hired Jesús Lara as General Manager of Digital, Content, and Entertainment for Radio.

The position had been vacant for almost a year, since the sudden death of Alejandro Nieto Molina last January, after barely a week on the job.

Lara will oversee the development and implementation of digital, content creation, programming and entertainment strategies within better position Univision’s radio properties moving forward.

He’ll be based in Miami and report to John Eck, Chief Local Media Officer. He will work closely with UCI’s President of Music, Jorge ‘Pepo’ Ferradas, to align with the company’s broader music strategy.

Lara was most recently EVP of Digital Media Strategy at Spanish Broadcasting System, where he spent three years. He has also held executive roles at Viacom, where he was an SVP of Music Programing and at EMI Music, where he was VP of Marketing.

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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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