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Chicana “token” turns into top TV journalist – Beverly Martinez – Denver

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“The beginning of Beverly Martinez’s television news career nearly three decades ago could almost be called accidental. Martinez was teaching at Community College of Denver when friend Roger Cisneros, then a lawyer and now a retired judge, encouraged her to apply for a job that had opened up at KWGN-Channel 2.

In response to Reynelda Muse, an African-American, being hired at Channel 4, Channel 2 was looking for a Chicana.

Martinez had no journalism experience. “My training was to be an elementary school teacher,” she says.

But she won the position and became the city’s first Hispanic female television news reporter.”*

Posted on: November 23rd, 2007
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Filed Under: 1. Hispanic News, Media, Tomás' Picks
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