Robert Rivard

Posted 2.07.06

Robert Rivard has served as editor of the San Antonio Express-News since 1997. He has worked as a reporter and editor at four other Texas newspapers and for Newsweek magazine, first as a foreign correspondent covering civil wars in Central America in the 1980s and then as the magazine's chief of correspondents until 1989 when he returned to Texas.

Rivard was the recipient of journalism's oldest prize, Columbia University's Maria Moors Cabot Prize for Distinguished Journalistic Service in 2002. One year earlier, he was named 'Editor of the Year' by Editor and Publisher magazine. Earlier in his 27-year career, Rivard was the winner of the 1982 Sigma Delta Chi Distinguished Service Award for Foreign Correspondents for his writings from El Salvador during that country's long civil war. All three awards grew out of his work as a journalist in Latin America and along the border.

Rivard recently completed 'Trail of Feathers', his first book, about the 1998 disappearance and murder of Philip True, the newspaper's former Mexico City bureau chief, and the newspaper's long search for justice. The book was published in October 2005 by Public Affairs in New York.

'Trail of Feathers' has been widely praised by the New York Times and dozens of other newspapers across the country and in Esquire, People, Texas Monthly and Parade magazines.

Rivard is 53 and married to Monika Maeckle. They have two children, Nick and Alex, both attending college.