Fernando Ortiz Jr.
Managing Editorfernando@tpr.org
(210) 614-8977 x405
Ortiz supervises day-to-day operations of TPR’s newsroom and TPR.org, with a primary focus on San Antonio metro news.
He was a print and online news editor at the Corpus Christi Caller-Times and the San Antonio Express-News from 1999 to 2010. He was also a news page designer, a wire editor, a book critic and a member of the Caller-Times editorial board.
Before joining Texas Public Radio in 2017, he taught U.S. history at Northwest Vista College, San Antonio College, the University of Texas at San Antonio and Texas A&M University-San Antonio.
Ortiz has a bachelor's degree from the University of Texas at Austin and a master's degree from UTSA, both in U.S. history.
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The Women's World Cup is next, in late July 2023. In 2026, the men's games come to Cananda, the U.S. and Mexico. -
Election Day is Tuesday, Nov. 8. -
Las comunidades resecas en el Rio Grande Valley podrán ver algunas lluvias muy necesarias este fin de semana, gracias a una perturbación climática en el suroeste del Golfo de México que los meteorólogos esperaban que se convirtiera en la tormenta tropical Danielle. -
Gerald Teldon, a veteran of the Allied air war over Italy and the Balkans during World War II, was decorated for his service at a ceremony at the San Antonio Chabad Center for Jewish Life and Learning just hours before his great-grandson's bar mitzvah. -
La última víctima estudiantil que fue hospitalizada después de resultar herida en el tiroteo masivo en la escuela en Uvalde, Texas, fue dada de alta del hospital. -
El fiscal del Condado de Starr, Gocha Allen Ramírez, dijo el domingo que ha presentado una moción para desestimar un cargo de asesinato contra una mujer por realizar un "aborto autoinducido". -
JBSA reported no injuries, and no occupied buildings have damaged. -
Lizelle Herrera, 26, was released from custody Saturday night on $500,000 bond. Then, on Sunday, the DA said the Starr County Sheriff's Department "did their duty in investigating the incident brought to their attention by the reporting hospital." However, he said that this is not a criminal matter under Texas law.
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The 1-35 corridor between San Antonio and Austin saw wave after wave of severe weather on Monday, which seemed to only intensify as it moved off to the southeast. -
The blazes, known collectively as the Eastland Complex fires, have killed at least one person, destroyed more than 140 structures and burned around 50,000 acres of dry and windy West Texas landscape.
