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Villaescusa joins KING as Executive Producer

Posted on 01 August 2017. Tags:

Ruben VillaescusaAfter spending 23 years at KTTV-11 in Los Angeles, Ruben Villaescusa is moving on to a new job in Seattle.

Starting Monday August 7, he joins KING 5 News as dayside Executive Producer.

Villaescusa retired from Fox’s LA station, where he had been Assistant News Director since December 2014, at the end in January.

“But I just couldn’t stay retired,” he says.

During his tenure at KTTV, he held several jobs, including writer, producer and assignment editor.

He previously worked as a writer and producer for KTLA Los Angeles and was also the assignment manager at KCOP Los Angeles.

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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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