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1993.05.13 :  Appointment -- Victor Zonana

Contact: Campbell Gardett
Thursday, May 13, 1993                           (202) 690-6343

       HHS Secretary Donna E. Shalala has announced the
appointment of veteran news reporter Victor F. Zonana, 39, of New
York City, as deputy assistant secretary for public
affairs/media, in the Department of Health and Human Services.
       In his new position, Zonana serves as a spokesman for the 
department, is the principal public affairs liaison with the
White House Press Office and works directly with the assistant
secretary for public affairs in an agency with 250 programs and
the federal government's largest budget.
       Zonana came to HHS from the New York bureau of the Los
Angeles Times where since 1991 he had been a special staff writer
covering business, economics, insurance, banking and health care
issues.
       He started with the Los Angeles Times in 1985 as chief of
the financial bureau in San Francisco.  During 1988-1991, he had
a special assignment in the San Francisco bureau covering the
economic, social and political ramifications of the AIDS
epidemic.
       Zonana began his journalism career in 1975 as a staff
writer for the Wall Street Journal, serving the first three years
in the Philadelphia bureau and the next seven in the San
Francisco bureau. 
       Born in New York, Zonana graduated from Midwood High
School in Brooklyn.  He received his bachelor's degree in
economics from Dartmouth College in 1975.

       He is winner of The John Hancock Award for Excellence in
Journalism and the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation
media award, and was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for Public
Service.  Zonana is a co-founder of the National Lesbian and Gay
Journalists Association.


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