Carolina Garcia

Carolina Garcia joined The Monterey County Herald last April and oversees coverage of the Monterey Peninsula, Salinas and surrounding communities.
 
Ms. Garcia was managing editor of the San Antonio Express-News from 1998-2003. Prior to joining the Express-News, she worked at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel for 16 years.  She started at that paper as a columnist writing about that area’s growing Hispanic community.  She covered several journalistic beats and held numerous leadership positions, including assistant metro editor, state editor, Sunday editor and assistant managing editor. 

In Monterey, Ms. Garcia sees her job as pushing for more and better local coverage of a tremendously diverse community with deep roots facing numerous challenges. Her job and the newspaper’s job is to fairly and accurately capture how each community meets those challenges.

A graduate of the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee, she was 2002 president of the Texas Associated Press Managing Editors. She is a member of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists, National Association of Black Journalists, and the Asian American Journalists Association.  She also chaired the Diversity Committee for the American Society of Newspaper Editors in 2002. She is on the ASNE board of directors, and was a 2002 and 2003 Pulitzer Prize judge.