Ben Fong-Torres Biography

Benjamin Fong-Torres is an American rock journalist author and broadcaster best known for his association with Rolling Stone magazine (through 1981) and the San Francisco Chronicle (from around 1982).
Fong-Torres who graduated from San Francisco State University in 1966 with a B.A. in radio-TV-film was a writer and senior editor of Rolling Stone nearly from the magazine's inception.
He conducted interviews for Rolling Stone of entertainment figures including Bob Dylan the Rolling Stones comedian Steve Martin and Linda Ronstadt's first cover story in 1975. He also profiled Marvin Gaye Sly and the Family Stone Bonnie Raitt Paul McCartney and Rodney Dangerfield. A Fong-Torres interview with Ray Charles was awarded the Deems Taylor Award for Magazine Writing in 1974.
Fong-Torres was also a rock DJ for San Francisco radio station KSAN-FM in the 1970s. He later hosted a live weekly entertainment and talk show Fog City Radio on NPR affiliate KQED-FM. On television he is the Emmy Award-winning co-anchor of the Chinese New Year Parade broadcast on KTVU (Fox) in San Francisco.

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