Miguel perez syndicated columnist biography

Journalist Miguel Pérez, an award-winning columnist and popular radio and television talk-show host, has spent his year career covering the issues and concerns of America's burgeoning Latino population.

In his columns, he looks at Latino contributions to American society, the fight to protect democratic rights in Latin America and immigration trends across the United States.

Journalist Miguel Pérez, an award-winning reporter, columnist and popular radio and television talk-show host, has spent his year career covering the.

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Journalist Miguel Pérez, an award-winning columnist and popular radio and television talk-show host, has spent his year career covering the issues and.

Miguel Perez has spent nearly 30 years covering the issues and concerns of the rise of America's Latino population.

Miguel Perez, 64, always wanted to be a journalist from as young as he can remember.

Born in Havana in , Pérez came to the United States as a refugee at the age of 11 in He didn't speak a word of English. But he went on to become sports editor of his high school newspaper, editor of two college papers, a reporter for The Tampa Times and The Miami Herald, a graduate of the Columbia School of Journalism, and a columnist for the New York Daily News and The Record of Hackensack, N.J.

He has been the host of three radio shows and three television programs in both English and Spanish.

For his Daily News columns on the city's Latinos, in Pérez won the Mike Berger Award, considered the t