Editorial Letra Viva© - Since 1999
Pedro A. González Munné
A professional journalist since 1974. Obtained on the island the Cuban National Awards: First of January's in history, with a book of testimony (1978), in TV reportage, the Juan Manuel Márquez (1986), and the Sun of Cuba in tourism. National Vanguard of the Trade Union of Workers of Culture and Art (1985) and the José Martí award Union of Journalists of Cuba (UPEC).
Graduated in Journalism summa cum laude at the University of Havana (1974). In college columnist for University magazines the magazine's Arte 7 and Alma Mater, member of the Board of Directors of the University newspaper Despegue. He was elected to the Cultural front in the FEU, Federation of University Students.
He worked in the Cuban radio and television national system, where he was a member of the Committees of Technical Evaluation for Journalists and Labor judge. Worked for the provincial radio station Radio Guamá and the newspaper Guerrillero, and was a correspondent of national newscast of Television (NTV); collaborated with Radio Rebelde and Radio Taíno, as well as the national magazines: El Caimán Barbudo and Cuba Internacional, Pionero among others. Editor of the national newscast of TeleRebelde (Noticiero Nacional de Televisión) and Cubavisión Internacional, was War Correspondent in Angola and Indochina (1987).
He was kicked out of his job and all social and professional organizations to which he belonged for his opposition to Cuban journalists' repression in a purge of the Cuban press (1990). He immigrated to the United States in 1991. He was never a member of any political party on the island.
In Florida has created and anchored Hispanic alternative radio and television shows, such as Radio Progreso, Radio Miami, and Radio Fé, and community tabloids like The Cuban Nation, El País de Miami, El Nuevo Americano, and Qué Pasa Miami. Has also been the Editor of the tourism magazine Player and the inflight Aboard.
Founder of the Community Media Council (1998) for promoting Latino community press, has been a member of the Board and President of the Florida Association of Hispanic Journalists (FAHJ) since 2003, founder of the International Press Club of Miami (IPC-Miami) since 2012, participated in national and international conferences. In addition, he has chaired Committees of Freedom of Expression and Professional Ethics of organizations such as the National Association of Hispanic Journalists (NAHJ), the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ), and the Latin American Confederation of Tourist Press (CLAPTUR).
Also member of the Asociación Latinoamericana de Investigadores de la Comunicación [Latin American Association of Communication Researchers] (ALAIC), American Association of University Professors (AAUP), American Political Science Association (APSA), Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC), Broadcast Education Association (BEA), Inter American Press Association (SIP), International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR), International Communication Association (ICA), Latin American Studies Association (LASA), National Association of Scholars (NAS), National Catholic Educational Association (NCEA) and the Online News Association (ONA) among others.
He finished a Master's in Arts, Digital Media, and a Ph.D. in Education at the Catholic University Saint Thomas of Miami Gardens, FL. He now teaches Communications at Universities. Was a Lecturer in Florida International University.
Has published with Americas Publishing the ecotourism Books: Ecuador and El Salvador (1992).
In different genres: Al sonido de mi mismo (2002), Ciénaga de la Angustia (2006), Rehenes del Odio (2008) and El Color de la Mentira; and the essay Ebrio de Luz, The Cuban Emigration to the EEUU, XIX Century (2014) -the first of a trilogy about that theme. Also Los Cachorros de Satán: Modelos de propaganda oficial en la prensa norteamericana (2014), Máquina de Quimeras: Raza y etnicidad en los juegos de video: racismo, odio y prejuicios (2014) and Quimera Machine -in English with LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing (2016), and Domar el Odio, the building of the Cuban American community in the US.
He continued publishing in English with Our Demons on The Machine: Language, Netsocities and Illiteracy on the Web (2021) and New Age Idiocy: Digital Illiteracy in the Pandemic: Culling the Ignorant and neglected. Meta Classrooms potentials and risks (2022) and in print for 2023: The Human Need for Censorship. From Libraries to the Internet, Information Access Bestows Rights to the Powerful and The Simbiogenetic Human Digitization. How the Interaction With The Internet Through Digital Technologies Created a Symbiogenetic Human Digitization.
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