Gil Duran | |
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Former Press Secretary | |
Governor | Jerry Brown |
Personal details | |
Political party | Democratic Party |
Alma mater | DePauw University |
Gil Duran is an American journalist based in San Francisco. He has served as the California opinion editor for The Sacramento Bee and editorial page editor for the San Francisco Examiner . He previously worked as press secretary for California governor Jerry Brown. [1]
From 2008 to 2010,Duran was communications director for U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein. He was press secretary to Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa from 2007 to 2008. [2]
In 2013,Duran was the communications director for Kamala Harris during her tenure as the California attorney general. [3]
In 2018,Duran became the California opinion editor for The Sacramento Bee and oversaw strategy for McClatchy's five California news organizations:The Sacramento Bee,The Fresno Bee,The Modesto Bee,The Merced Sun-Star and The Tribune in San Luis Obispo. [4]
His pieces regularly appear in The New Republic and the San Francisco Chronicle. He also writes two newsletters on the Ghost platform. The Nerd Reich focuses on tech authoritarian politics. FrameLab,a partnership with cognitive scientist George Lakoff,focuses on political language and framing.
Duran and his mother and younger sister lived in Tulare,California when he was a boy. [5] After moving to Kentucky,he attended Paul Laurence Dunbar High School in Lexington. He later attended DePauw University in Greencastle,Indiana. In 2009,Duran was quoted in Esquire magazine talking about the importance of his mother. [5]
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