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Ernesto Portillo Jr. Profile

6/10/2017

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Born and raised in Tucson, Arizona Ernesto “Neto” Portillo Jr. is a proud Tucsonan. He is a columnist for The Arizona Daily Star and also works for La Estrella.

While Neto was a student at the University of Arizona, he traveled to Mexico and Central America. Neto graduated with a major in Latin American Studies, but developed a passion for journalism. He “fell in love with it” when he took a basic journalism class at the U of A. He only took three journalism courses, but he was fascinated. He was told he would be a good journalist because he is bilingual and a great writer.

 In 1982, he attended a journalism program for minorities at University of California, Berkeley. When Neto finished the program, he began to work as a reporter in Massachusetts. He worked there for three years and then moved to San Diego, where he lived for 15 years working as a reporter.

In 2000, Neto moved back home to Tucson. He started working at The Arizona Daily Star, where he was hired as a columnist.
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Neto loves to work for the Daily Star and La Estrella. He enjoys showing the culture in Tucson because he believes the culture is vital in today’s society.
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In addition to being a columnist, he loves his chickens and turtles. Neto also enjoys doing CrossFit with his wife. He hopes to inspire people and give them ganas or “moxy” when they read his columns. ​
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Walter Crockett
2/18/2019 07:11:35 pm

I worked with Ernesto at the Worcester Telegram & Gazette in the early '80s. He was a fine young writer then, and I'm delighted to see him doing well today in Tucson. I wonder if he is related to the reporter Ely Portillo, working in Charlotte, N.C., whom I saw on Rachel Maddow tonight.

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