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Veteran journalist Jesse Macias, who for decades delivered news to San Diego television audiences while breaking barriers as a Latino reporter, has died. He was 73.
Macias worked as a news reporter for CBS 8 San Diego and other local stations, from the 1970s until his retirement in 2009.
He had suffered from kidney disease. He died June 4.
He was one of the first Latino television reporters in the area and covered many breaking news stories, including the PSA Flight 182 crash in 1978 that killed 144 people, one of the deadliest air disasters in California history.
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Macias earned an Emmy for his investigative reporting on labor conditions for migrant farmworkers. He won other awards from such organizations as the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, the Radio & Television News Association of Southern California and the California Chicano News Media Association.
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