November 15, 2016

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THE 74 WELCOMES AWARD-WINNING JOURNALISTS

ESMERALDA FABIAN ROMERO AND
BEVERLY WEINTRAUB TO ITS NETWORK OF
NEWSROOMS
Weintraub will serve as Executive Editor in The 74s New York newsroom and Fabian
will serve as the Senior Editor and reporter for the newly-launched Spanishlanguage site LA School Report en Espaol
(New York, NY) The fast-growing education news site The 74 is bolstering its
reporting team in New York City and Los Angeles, with the hiring of two education
and news veterans, Esmeralda Fabian Romero and Beverly Weintraub.
Fabian will serve as the Senior Editor, as a well as a reporter, for LA School Report
en Espaol, the newly-launched, Spanish-language sister site of LA School Report,
which serves as The 74s West Coast newsroom. Fabian is a bilingual journalist who
has worked for some of the most prominent Latino media outlets in the U.S.
including the leading Spanish-language newspaper in the nation, La Opinin. Her
work includes in-depth reporting on the California Teachers Standardized
Evaluation, LAUSDs Linked Learning Program, Common Core, Early Education for
Latino Children with Learning Disabilities, and issues affecting CA English Learner
Students.
Weintraub joins The 74 as Executive Editor. She is a Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist
who brings more than 20 years of experience, having served as an editorial writer,
copy desk chief and copy editor at the New York Daily News. She was most recently
Senior Editor at Success Academy Charter Schools, the highest-performing charter
network in New York City.
Together, Fabian and Weintraub bring decades of valuable storytelling experience
to our network of education news sites, said Steve Snyder, Editorial Director of

The 74. Thanks to our incredibly talented team of reporters and editors in New
York, Washington, D.C. and Los Angeles, we are breaking some of the biggest
education stories in America, while significantly growing our audience through
groundbreaking ventures like LA School Report en Espaol.
The newly-launched LA School Report en Espaol is providing hard-hitting news and
commentary in Spanish to the growing Spanish-speaking community in Los Angeles,
where nearly 75% of the student population is Latino.
The goal of the new site is to keep parents, students, educators, political leaders
and activists informed about the incredible amount of activity going on every day in
the more than 1,300 district and public charter schools in Los Angeles, which enroll
660,000 students in kindergarten through 12 th grade.
In addition to her work with La Opinin, Fabian has also collaborated for the Los
Angeles Times Spanish publication HOY, FOX News Latino, and worked as a producer
for MundoFOX national newscast. The National Association of Hispanic Publications
awarded her reporting work on Education in 2012 and 2013 with the National
Association of Hispanic Publications' Jose Martin Publishing Award, for Outstanding
Education Article.
My greatest satisfaction as a journalist is to have the opportunity to share inspiring
success stories about students, parents, educators, activists and all those
individuals involved in making quality public education accessible for everyone,
particularly among the Latino community, said Fabian. I believe Latinos perceive
education as their real American dream and many times their best chance to a
better life for generations to come.
While at the Daily News, Weintraub covered a wide variety of issues, including
education, homelessness and mental health, in the highly competitive New York City
market. She was a member of the 2007 Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial team that
brought to public attention the debilitating illnesses afflicting World Trade Center
rescue and recovery workers after 9/11.
The 74 is leading the way in having an honest, fact-based conversation about the
profound challenges facing Americas education system, said Weintraub. I have
seen first-hand in New York City the impact that access to or lack of a highquality education can have on a community. I look forward to telling the stories of
schools that are championing change, while exposing the hypocrisy of entrenched
interests that are obstructing progress.
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ABOUT THE 74
The 74 is a non-profit, non-partisan education news organization founded in 2014 by
award-winning broadcast journalist Campbell Brown and former New York City
schools official Romy Drucker. As of 2016, The 74 had expanded to New York, Los
Angeles and Washington, D.C., and currently operates three daily news websites:
the nationally focused The74million.org and Los Angeles LASchoolReport.com and
espanol.LASchoolReport.com. The outlets roster of contributors which includes

Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Cynthia Tucker Haynes, former USA Today editor
Richard Whitmire, and former TIME Assistant Managing Editor Steve Snyder was
recognized as an official honoree at the 2016 Webby Awards for best editorial
writing on the Internet. The 74 also hosted the 2015 New Hampshire Education
Summit, which brought together top presidential candidates for an extended
discussion about Americas schools, and became a national trending topic and
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