Nora Lopez
Communications
Nora Lopez is Executive Editor at the San Antonio Express-News.
Prior to that, she was the Metro Editor, a position she held for eight years at the same newspaper where she began her professional journalism career as an intern.
A 35-year news veteran, Lopez oversees a team of talented editors and award-winning reporters who produce content for both print and digital publications.
In between her stints at the Express-News, first in 1987 and again in 2000, Lopez was a reporter at The Dallas Morning News and the now defunct San Antonio Light.
Lopez transitioned from reporter to editor when she was named criminal justice editor at the Express-News in 2001.
Lopez also served as State Editor, overseeing six bureaus in Mexico, the Texas-Mexico Border, the state capitol and Washington, D.C., before being promoted to Deputy Metro Editor.
Lopez is the immediate past president of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists, serving from 2020-22.
She has long been active with both the San Antonio Association of Hispanic Journalists, serving as its president from 2019-2020, and the San Antonio Pro Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists, serving as its vice president for programming and as a producer of the group’s annual scholarship fundraiser, the Gridiron show.
She has helped raise more than $150,000 in scholarships to support journalism students through her work with both SAAHJ and SPJ-SA.
The daughter of migrant farmworkers, Lopez grew up in Edinburg, Texas, home to Pan American University, where Lopez graduated with a BA in communications.
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