Charles DeLaFuente
Charles DeLaFuente
Charles DeLaFuente has been a journalist and lawyer for decades. He began his career as a reporter for suburban New York newspapers and for United Press International. He became a city editor of one of New York’s tabloids for several years, then left to attend law school. After graduating and practicing for a few years, he returned to journalism, first at UPI, then at the New York Daily News and at the Times-Union in Albany, NY. He was editor-in-chief of the Record, a small paper in Troy, NY, near the state capital, before joining the New York Times as a copyeditor in 1998.
DeLaFuente has led a seminar on libel at the American Copy Editors Society’s annual meetings for the last six years. He has taught the same material to newspaper, magazine, and trade publication staffs.

