Lloyd LaCuesta

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Lloyd LaCuesta is an American television journalist born in Honolulu, Hawaii. He spent 35 years at KTVU in the San Francisco Bay Area, retiring in June 2012 as the South Bay bureau chief. He is of Filipino ancestry. He served in the Army as a broadcast journalist for the American Forces Korea Network. He earned a BA in journalism and political science from San Jose State University and an MA in journalism from UCLA, after attending California State University, Los Angeles. While at SJSU, he won the Sigma Delta Chi Award for reporting. Earlier in his career, he worked as a writer for KNX/CBS Radio in Los Angeles and the Los Angeles Herald Examiner, and as a producer for KABC-TV and KGO-TV. He began at KTVU in 1976. He has taught journalism at SJSU and Menlo College. LaCuesta has won six Emmy Awards and received a lifetime achievement award from the Asian American Journalists Association in 2004. He was president of AAJA from 1987 to 1990 and directed AAJA's Study Tours Program. He was the first president of Unity Journalists of Color.