He was formerly senior vice president for news and operations at Univision Television, as well as acting director of the United States Agency for Global Media’s Office of Performance Review.
[7][1][8] In his senior year, he ran the school's news department, and created and hosted a daily call-in talk show.
[2] He sparked controversy in 1986 for refusing to air safer sex advertisements, with Bea Kelleigh from the NW AIDS Foundation dubbing the rejections as due to "homophobia".
[13] He was then hired as news director at KCBS-TV in Los Angeles in 1992; it was a position he held until 1993, when he was fired amid reports of being "disliked by almost everyone who works in the newsroom"[12][14][15][2] In 1983–85, he was a staff writer and an assistant editor of The Fifth Estate Broadcasting.
[9][19] It won a Gold World Medal in the International Affairs Documentary category, a Silver World Medal in the Best News Documentary/Special News Program category, and a United Nations Department of Public Information special Bronze Award at the 2019 New York Festivals International TV and Film Awards ceremony at the National Association of Broadcasters show.