Richard Gonzales
Richard Gonzales is NPR's National Desk Correspondent based in San Francisco. Along with covering the daily news of region, Gonzales' reporting has included medical marijuana, gay marriage, drive-by shootings, Jerry Brown, Willie Brown, the U.S. Ninth Circuit, the California State Supreme Court and any other legal, political, or social development occurring in Northern California relevant to the rest of the country.
Gonzales joined NPR in May 1986. He covered the U.S. State Department during the Iran-Contra Affair and the fall of apartheid in South Africa. Four years later, he assumed the post of White House Correspondent and reported on the prelude to the Gulf War and President George W. Bush's unsuccessful re-election bid. Gonzales covered the U.S. Congress for NPR from 1993-94, focusing on NAFTA and immigration and welfare reform.
In September 1995, Gonzales moved to his current position after spending a year as a John S. Knight Fellow Journalism at Stanford University.
In 2009, Gonzales won the Broadcast Journalism Award from the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons. He also received the PASS Award in 2004 and 2005 from the National Council on Crime and Delinquency for reports on California's juvenile and adult criminal justice systems.
Prior to NPR, Gonzales was a freelance producer at public television station KQED in San Francisco. From 1979 to 1985, he held positions as a reporter, producer, and later, public affairs director at KPFA, a radio station in Berkeley, CA.
Gonzales graduated from Harvard College with a bachelor's degree in psychology and social relations. He is a co-founder of Familias Unidas, a bi-lingual social services program in his hometown of Richmond, California.
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British investigators are reported to be looking at whether personal data was obtained in an unauthorized manner. -
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg posted his first responses, followed by a CNN appearance, after the controversy surrounding reports that Cambridge Analytica exploited users' data without their knowledge. -
Officials say the dead suspect Mark Anthony Conditt, left a lengthy cellphone recording describing his bombing rampage. They characterized it as an "outcry of a very challenged young man." -
Austin police say a military-type artillery simulator injured an employee at a Goodwill store late Tuesday, but that it was unrelated to earlier package bombs in an around the city this month. -
Transportation authorities say an engineer on the project left them a voicemail saying he saw some cracks. There is no official word on why the bridge came down Thursday, killing at least six people. -
Some local border residents say the president is focused on building a wall when closer economic ties between the U.S and Mexico seem to call for another approach. -
The proposal comes on the same day that accused shooter Nikolas Cruz, 19, was officially charged with 17 counts of first-degree murder in the Parkland, Fla., high school shooting. -
The bid to create a women-led film studio collapses upon the discovery that the company carried more debt than previously known. -
The court ruled that immigrants, even those who are permanent legal residents and asylum seekers, have no right to periodic bond hearings, meaning they could be held indefinitely in some cases. -
The new director of Citizenship and Immigration Services says changing the federal agency's mission statement reminds staff that they work for the American people.
