Daniel Hernandez

‘Writin’ is fightin’’ — reed ✍️

Bienvenidos. I’m Daniel Michael Hernandez. Welcome to my home and archive online. I am a journalist, editor, author and documentary host from the U.S.-Mexico borderlands. The above quote by author Ishmael Reed pretty much sums up my view of this work — every sentence one writes is itself an argument.

This site gathers links to some of my articles, essays, and video and audio documentaries in English and Spanish, in the United States, Mexico and Latin America. Scroll down for highlights. Click here to learn more about my background. Here are selected media appearances and clips about my work.

I am recipient of the 2022 Nell Minow Award in Cultural Criticism from the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. Since that year, I am Food Editor at the Los Angeles Times.

In the production space, I host on-camera or audio, writing, script consulting and creative development. I also translate and interpret.

As a storyteller, my building blocks were shaped growing up bilingual and bicultural on the U.S.-Mexico border, in multiethnic barrios. I am passionate about journalistic independence and the role the free press plays in our lives. I am excited by all forms of cultural production, by the intersections that exist between food, art, society, the sublime, and the streets. - D.H.

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* Website design: Daniel González, Omar N. López.