Daniel Hernandez

‘Writin’ is fightin’’ ✍️

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 sums up my view of this work. All writing is argument.

This site gathers links to 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 a two-time nominee for a James Beard Media Awards and recipient of the inaugural 2022 Nell Minow Award in Cultural Criticism from the National Press Club in Washington, D.C.

Currently, I am Food Editor at the Los Angeles Times.

Besides journalism and creative non-fiction, I’ve been a video and audio host or producer, script consultant, story researcher, translator, and have worked in IP development.

I am passionate about journalistic independence and the role the free press plays in our lives. As a storyteller, my building blocks were shaped growing up bilingual and bicultural on the U.S.-Mexico border, in multiethnic barrios. 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.