Bob Navarro papers
Scope and Contents
The papers of broadcast journalist Bob Navarro, who spent 38 years covering news at KCBS and KNBC in Los Angeles and Sacramento. The collection includes Navarro's writings, photographs, family memorabilia, collected publications, and other material. Navarro also worked as a reporter at KTLA Channel 5 and KCAL Channel 9, a news director at Spanish-language channel KVEA-TV, and hosted his own show "Bob Navarro's Journal," a weekly public affairs series on KCBS-TV. The biographical information used in this note was taken from the website for the PBS documentary, Ruben Salazar: Man in the Middle.
Dates
- Creation: 1915 - 2013
Creator
- Navarro, Bob (Person)
Conditions Governing Access
COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE. Advance notice required for access.
Conditions Governing Use
All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Department of Special Collections at specol@usc.edu. Permission for publication is given on behalf of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained.
Rights Statement for Archival Description
Finding aid description and metadata are licensed under an Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license.
Extent
6.5 Linear Feet (5 boxes)
Language of Materials
English
Spanish; Castilian
Abstract
The papers of broadcast journalist Bob Navarro, who spent close to 40 years covering news at KCBS and KNBC in Los Angeles and Sacramento. The collection includes Navarro's writings, photographs, family memorabilia, collected publications, and other material. Navarro also worked as a reporter at KTLA Channel 5 and KCAL Channel 9, a news director at Spanish-language channel KVEA-TV, and hosted his own show "Bob Navarro's Journal," a weekly public affairs series on KCBS-TV. The biographical information used in this note was taken from the website for the PBS documentary, Ruben Salazar: Man in the Middle.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift of Bob Navarro, December 17, 2014.
Processing Information
The collection is unprocessed.
Subject
- KCBS-TV (Television station : Los Angeles, Calif.) -- Archives (Organization)
- Navarro, Bob -- Archives (Person)
Genre / Form
Topical
- Broadcast journalism -- California -- Archival resources
- Journalism -- Political aspects -- United States -- 20th century -- Archival resources
- Journalists -- California -- Los Angeles -- 20th century -- Archival resources
- Mexican American journalists -- California -- Archival resources
- Reporters and reporting -- Archival resources
- Title
- Finding aid for the Bob Navarro papers
- Status
- Unprocessed
- Author
- Bo Doub
- Date
- 2021 March
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the USC Libraries Special Collections Repository
Doheny Memorial Library 206
3550 Trousdale Parkway
Los Angeles California 90089-0189 United States
specol@usc.edu