Rebecca Aguilar

Rebecca Aguilar (born 1957 or 1958) is a freelance reporter in the Dallas area.

Career

Aguilar has worked as a television reporter at WDHO-TV, Toledo Ohio, KRIS-TV, Corpus Christi,TX, KENS-TV, San Antonio, TX, USA Today on TV, Washington, DC, KPNX-TV, Phoenix, AZ, KNBC-TV, Los Angeles, CA, and KDFW-TV, Dallas, TX.

Her first reporting post in 1981 was at ABC in Toledo. She has won several local Emmys and won 2005 Texas Associated Press Reporter of the Year. The National Association of Hispanic Journalists named her Broadcast Journalist of the Year in 2007, and she has been a member of their board since 2010 as the general at-large officer.

Aguilar was suspended by KDFW-TV, a Fox affiliate, on 16 October 2007 following an interview the previous day with a 70-year-old salvage merchant who had shot and killed two burglars in three weeks. She received threats for the report. According to the station the interview was "overly aggressive". Following her dismissal in March 2008, she filed a case with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. She unsuccessfully sued Fox for wrongful dismissal, losing the jury trial in December 2010.

In August 2009, Aguilar set up Wise Latinas Linked, a social networking group on Facebook.

Personal life

Aguilar was born in Napoleon, Ohio. Her parents were illegal immigrants, and her father was a union organizer at United Auto Workers. She graduated from Napoleon High School and got her Communications degree from Bowling Green State University, minoring in journalism.