U.S.News & World Report Announces New Hire to Education Section
Washington D.C. -- U.S.News & World Report today announced the hire of Eddy Ramirez as a K-12 reporter for the Education section of the magazine and website, USNews.com. Ramirez started August 13, and reports to Kenneth Terrell, assistant managing editor of Education.
Ramirez joins U.S. News after spending two years as reporter for the St. Petersburg Times in Inverness, Fla., covering education issues such as PTA dads who were registered sex offenders, the controversy over whether testing students for drug use is an invasion of privacy, and X-Rated Youth--a Christian youth group looking to attract attention with its racy name.
Prior to working in Florida, Ramirez completed internships at the headquarters of the New York Times (2004) and the Boston Globe (2003), as well as the Washington, D.C., bureau of the Los Angeles Times (2002). In 2001, he assisted on a story about the journey of Cuban rafters from Cuba to Miami, and a couple’s efforts to reunite with their 5-year-old daughter. The story was later published in a book based on reporting by journalists, writers and documentary filmmakers called Capitalism, God, and a Good Cigar: Cuba Enters the Twenty-First Century (Duke University Press, May 2005). Ramirez, a native Spanish speaker, grew up in Mexico and Southern California. He received his bachelor’s degree in political science from the University of California-Berkeley in 2004, and also studied at the University of Chile, Santiago, and Vietnam National University, Hanoi.
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