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Ernesto Aguilar

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As seen in: KQED-TV (San Francisco,CA), Medium, El Universal (Mexico), Pew Research Center, Substack, KQED-FM (San Francisco, CA), El Mostrador, TV Technology, Dialnet - Universidad de La Rioja, Current, Editor & Publisher and
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Radio and online reporting. I'm Program Director at public radio station KPFT (@KPFTHouston) and serve on the board of the National Federation of Community Broadcasters (@NFCB).

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Taking on Latino Public Media Growth

Taking on Latino Public Media Growth

I love my public media folks, but sometime it seems like we'll talk about anything excessively but diversity.

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You're Not Special: Notes to Public Media from the Podcast Revolution

You're Not Special: Notes to Public Media from the Podcast Revolution

Public media talks so much about podcasting, but isn't offering more than what it already offers on the radio…

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How Public Media and Podcasting Can Save Beats 1

How Public Media and Podcasting Can Save Beats 1

While its human curation in a plus, Apple's new service has its detractors. Beats 1 can win this fight by enl…

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10 Great Ambient Albums from Spring 2026

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By Ernesto Aguilar
| Treble Zine
I am currently reading Nathan Ballingrud’s Lunar Gothic series. As I wait for the final installment to drop next year, it has been a rich occasion to revisit his earlier work. His sense of cosmic and emotional dread can sit with you the way one sits with a long drone or a slowly evolving tone, allowing meaning to accumulate.
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How the Bay Area Helped Shape US Soccer Ahead of the 2026 World Cup

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By Ernesto Aguilar
| KQED-TV (San Francisco,CA) Verified
News Home / News A new KQED and Arizona State University project examines the people, teams and institutions that made the Bay Area a center of soccer culture and innovation. Jun 21, 2026 Die-hard fans of the San Francisco City Football Club gather at the spectator railing to cheer and heckle during the San Francisco City Football Club vs. Davis Legacy Soccer Club game at Kezar Stadium on May 17. 2026.
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The 10 Best Ambient albums of Winter 2026

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By Ernesto Aguilar
| Treble Zine
We exist in a world that often feels strangely unreal, refusing the clean edges we demand of it. And yet, to feel and to be human within that instability is itself an act of resolve. To be human is to dwell inside ambiguity without resolution. It is the quiet terror of discovery. It’s also the recognition that what I think I know is always already becoming something we don’t. Learning and unlearning are not opposites but the same formless motion, the self perpetually revising its own outline.
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What was your first job as a journalist?

writing about information technology

Have you ever used a typewriter?

Yes

How is social media changing news?

Sometimes for the worse
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