Paul Gutierrez is a columnist and multi-platform reporter for the Las Vegas Raiders.

Before joining Raiders.com in the spring of 2025, the award-winning sports journalist worked for Sports Illustrated, the Las Vegas Review-Journal, the Los Angeles Times, the Sacramento Bee, CSNBayArea.com and ESPN.

Gutierrez, a former Baseball Writers’ Association of America San Francisco/Oakland chapter president, voted for the Baseball Hall of Fame from 2011 through 2023. He is also a member of the Pro Football Writers of America, serving as Las Vegas chapter chair from 2020-24, and previously voted for the Associated Press NFL Awards. In 2024, Gutierrez became a member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame’s Selection Committee. He is also a selector for the newly-established Hispanic Football Hall of Fame and is a longtime member of the California Chicano News Media Association and the National Association of Hispanic Journalists.

Gutierrez, a native of Barstow, CA, graduated from Barstow Community College, where he played baseball and wrote for the Collegiate and Viking Press campus newspapers, with an associate in arts degree in humanities in 1991. He also worked as a stringer for the Barstow Desert Dispatch before transferring to UNLV, where he earned his bachelor in arts degree in communications, with an emphasis in print journalism. The Barstow College Distinguished Alumni of the Year recipient for 2024, he is also a Freedom Forum Chips Quinn Scholar and a Sports Journalism Institute alum, interning at the Oakland Tribune and The Orange County Register.

Gutierrez has authored three books: Tommy Davis’ Tales from the Dodgers Dugout, 100 Things Raiders Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die and If These Walls Could Talk: Stories from the Raiders Sideline, Locker Room and Press Box with Lincoln Kennedy.

Gutierrez is an adjunct professor at UNLV, teaching sports reporting, as well as a lecturer at Sonoma State University, where he co-advises the student newspaper, The Sonoma State Star. His wife, Amy, is a social media reporter, producer and lecturer at Sonoma State and was a longtime reporter and ambassador for the San Francisco Giants, and they have two children, Zach, a junior at UNLV, and Grace, a senior at Petaluma High School.