Bob Rivard

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Robert “Bob” Rivard is a veteran American journalist whose 46-year career has taken him to dozens of countries around the world and to 48 states (still have not made it to Hawaii!).

Bob has worked for five different Texas newspapers, beginning his career on the border at the Brownsville Herald, then moving to the Corpus Christi Caller, the Dallas Times-Herald and then, after eight years with Newsweek magazine as a foreign correspondent and chief of correspondents managing its journalists around the world, back to Texas, first to the San Antonio Light and then the San Antonio Express-News.

His work as a journalist has been widely recognized with industry awards. In April 2000, he was chosen by Editor & Publisher magazine in New York as its first annual newspaper “Editor of the Year.” Two years later Rivard received journalism’s oldest award, the prestigious Maria Moor Cabot Award from Columbia University, for his years of work as a reporter and editor in Latin America and along the U.S.-Mexico border.

Trail of Feathers: Searching for Philip True, Rivard’s nonfiction book chronicling the disappearance and murder of Philip True, the Express-News Mexico City bureau chief, in the Sierra Madre, was published by Public Affairs in New York in 2005. The books later appeared as trade paperback and e-book. The book was widely reviewed, briefly excerpted in Esquire magazine, and selected by People magazine as one of five recommended nonfiction works in 2005. Writing for The New York Times, William Grimes described Rivard’s search for True and his six-year pursuit of True’s killers through Mexico’s justice system as ”quietly heroic.”

Rivard resides in Southtown with his wife Monika, author of the Texas Butterfly Ranch blog and founder of the annual San Antonio Monarch Butterfly and Pollinator Festival. They have two adult children, Nicolas, a designer, fabricator and artist, and Alexander, director of education for the Alamo Trust. Both live in Dignowity Hill.