Rafael Olmeda is a veteran journalist and shared in the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for the South Florida Sun Sentinel’s coverage of the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School and its aftermath. His contribution focused on the legal issues raised by the incident and its coverage.
He was an early advocate for limiting the ability of corporations to amass media organizations under one umbrella, a development that has over the past three decades crushed the ability of those organizations to compete and flourish.
He has served on the national boards of the Society of Professional Journalists, the National Association of Hispanic Journalists and UNITY: Journalists of Color.
He is originally from New York and began his career with the Daily News, where he started a crime feature that resulted in the arrests of 40 fugitives over a five-year period.
He joined the staff of the South Florida Sun Sentinel in 1999.
Rafael Olmeda, Reporter 