Mike Hernandez Media
Our mission is to shape California’s future by cultivating informed communities, elevating conservative perspectives, and training everyday citizens to become bold, ethical journalists. Through faith-centered storytelling, we shine a light on church missions and the people advancing truth, service, and hope.
About Mike
Mike Hernandez has helped launch citizen journalist online news platforms in Ventura County (CA) and Nassau County (FL) and is the president of Mike Hernandez Media and publisher for CaliRed News, which is an online California news platform.
Exploring My Background and Experience
Mike Hernandez is a former Southern California daily newspaper journalist. He previously taught communication students at community, public and private universities. Hernandez has both a bachelor’s degree in communication from Pepperdine University (Malibu CA) where he helped start and manage the college radio station (KMBU) and a master’s degree in communication from CBN University (Virginia Beach, VA) now known as Regent University (where he served as a communication graduate assistant).
Mike Hernandez served as president and founder of Caleb Communications Company, a public relations communication company launched by Mike Hernandez and is an accredited public relations (APR) professional through the Public Relations Society of America. Mike was an Office of the Chancellor California State University Public Affairs employee responsible for statewide employee communications from 1985-87.
Mike Hernandez was founder and president of History Makers International (1977) which provided supplemental educational services (tutoring) in seven different locations with 40 credentialed teachers for K-12 students using No Child Left Behind federal funding through the California Department of Education and the Los Angeles Unified School District.
Mike Hernandez has written both church and revival news for various churches and online news platforms since 2013. He is the author of “Prayer Over News Daily” (POND) which posts Monday through Friday.
Current Endeavors and Goals
Mike Hernandez writes and posts “Prayer Over News Daily” (POND) Mondays through Fridays, hosts a Friday afternoon prayer call, and edits the weekly “Stories Speak Volumes.” He mentors and trains citizen journalists.
Mike Hernandez is a founding member and the first Secretary of the Shasta County Republican Assembly (SCRA), formed in 2022. The SCRA is a chapter of the California Republican Assembly created in 1935 that the 40th President Ronald Reagan (from 1981-1987) and former 33rd California Governor (from 1967-1975) called “the conscience of the Republican Party.”
Mike Hernandez works with elected officials and Christian, conservative, constitutional candidates running for office in California with a focus on encouraging a Republican agenda in California.
