Roberto FE Soto

Soto started his career in Miami working for WPLGTV as an anchorman and reporter for community radio stations. In the 1980s, he worked as a producer for NBC, the nation's most popular TV Network. His production while in NBC included the documentaries Look Well at the Rainbow, on E. Howard Hunt; Kent State, on the Kent State shootings; El Salvador, on the Salvadoran Civil War; and The Sound That Wouldn't Die, on big band.

After completing his degrees, there was a labor strike at NBC, and Soto moved to Los Angeles, California with his family. There, he served as an executive producer at Univision TV Network and news director for Telemundo TV Station Group, from 1987 to 1997. He also established USIA-TV Marti for former President George Bush, among other media organizations.

He has been a distinguished lecturer, in Spanish and English, at ASU, CUNY, Marist, TOURO, FDU, CNR, IONA, NYIT, FDU, Trine, and other institutions of higher learning.

He is frequently invited to comment on TMZ, panels, and international media.

Currently, he works in New York as executive director of IMAGINUS.

He also manages several blogs and websites.

Throughout his career, Soto helped launch NBCNews' The Source and Overnight, Univision Noticias, Noticiero Telemundo, USIA-TV, New York's First Regional Network, Associated Press Television News, Imaginus, City Images, and Dose of News.

Soto has been the recipient of several prestigious awards. He has served as a Gatekeeper and Juror for NY Press Club and International Emmy Awards. In 1985 he and his colleagues on NBC News Overnight were recognized by the jurors of the duPont Columbia Awards. They received the Alfred I DuPont prestigious journalism prize from Columbia University J School and shared the award with 60 Minutes correspondents.

He then went to The Today Show and other highly rated and award-winning programs. In Spanish-speaking newsrooms, journalists working in newsrooms under his directions have won multiple AP and Emmy Awards. Soto was on Hispanic Business' first list of 100 Influential Leaders in America.

Soto is the founding executive producer of The Source, Noticiero Univision; director of News Telemundo Stations; division chief of USIA TV; and station manager at News 12, The Bronx, Associated Press Television News. He is also a media consultant and educator.

• Soto, Roberto. Professor in the Communication department at Albany State University, Albany, GA. Retrieved May 6, 2015
• Sanchez, Kirsten. "City Island building landmarked.". Bronx Times, 2012. Retrieved May 6, 2015.
• Rocchio, Patrick. "City Island journalist starts online newspaper." Bronx Times, 2011. Retrieved May 6, 2015.