His areas of expertise have centered on urban affairs and investigative reporting, with a special focus on municipal land use and tax policies, public education, criminal justice, race relations, the trade union movement, immigration, and the Latino community. Since the 1970s, he has been a general reporter and columnist in newspapers, radio, and television – both commercial and alternative media. relations immigration, race, and labor relations and the role of dissident movements in promoting social change.

Juan González's research interests include journalism mass media history federal mass communications policy history of Latinos in the United States Puerto Rico-U.S. Before beginning his career in journalism, González spent several years as a Latino community and civil rights activist, helping to found and lead the Young Lords Party during the late 1960s, a group whose daring style of radical protest has been chronicled in several recent books, including the acclaimed The Young Lords: A Radical History, and in the award-winning documentary film Takeover, which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2021.

He serves as the Rutgers representative to the New Jersey Civic Information Consortium and as JMS faculty liaison to the Rutgers Daily Targum. González is also affiliate faculty for the Center for Latin American Studies and the Department of Latino and Caribbean Studies. A two-time winner of the George Polk Award, he is co-host of Democracy Now!, author of 'Harvest of Empire: A History of Latinos in America,' and a founder and past president of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists. González is an award-winning journalist and investigative reporter who spent 29 years as a columnist for the New York Daily News. Gloria Steinem Endowed Chair in Media, Culture and Feminist Studies.

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