Antonio Mora
| Antonio Mora | |
|---|---|
| Born |
December 14, 1957 Havana, Cuba |
| Alma mater | Harvard Law School, (LLM) |
| Occupation | Journalist, Anchorman |
| Notable credit(s) |
Consider This Good Morning America Good Morning America Sunday |
Antonio Mora (born December 14, 1957, Havana, Cuba) is a multiple Emmy Award winning journalist and television news anchor. He was an anchor on Al Jazeera America and its 9pm news broadcast. For the first year and a half of the network's existence, he acted as the host of a show called Consider This. He is best known for his years at ABC News, including his four years as the news anchor and chief correspondent for Good Morning America. He was the first Hispanic American male to anchor a primetime newscast in Chicago and one of the only Hispanic American males to anchor a national broadcast news show.
Mora's family left Cuba in 1960. He grew up in the United States and Caracas, Venezuela. He received an LL.M. from Harvard Law School and a law degree, summa cum laude, from the Universidad Católica Andrés Bello in Caracas. Before becoming a broadcaster, he was a corporate finance attorney at Debevoise & Plimpton in Manhattan. He is the great grandson of Cuban politician and League of Nations President Cosme de la Torriente y Peraza. He is the brother of former ATP touring pro, Alfonso Mora, brother-in-law of TV host Maite Delgado and former brother-in-law of model Ines Rivero.
Mora began his broadcasting career as a sports anchor and reporter for Univision’s New York station WXTV. He then worked as an anchor and producer for Telemundo’s New York station, WNJU-TV. He was one of the original announcers for ESPN’s international transmissions to Latin America and one of the original anchors for NBC News Nightside the overnight national newscast for the NBC Network. He then served as a reporter and anchor for WTVJ in Miami and was the original co-host of Good Day L.A. for KTTV in Los Angeles, before being hired by ABC as the host of Good Morning America Sunday and correspondent for Good Morning America. He later reported for virtually all of ABC News’ broadcasts, including Nightline and 20/20, covering news from more than a dozen countries on four continents. He also anchored ABC News’ breaking news coverage and served as a correspondent for World News Tonight with Peter Jennings and as a regular substitute anchor for the weekend edition of World News Tonight. In 1998, he became the news anchor for Good Morning America at the time when Diane Sawyer and Charles Gibson became the co-hosts of the show. Four years later, he left for Chicago where he served as the main anchor at the CBS owned-and-operated WBBM-TV until 2008. He was a news anchor at CBS owned-and-operated WFOR-TV in Miami until December 17, 2012. He is an experienced debate moderator, having moderated gubernatorial debates in Illinois and Florida, and senatorial and congressional debates in Florida. On July 26, 2013 he was hired to host a weeknight current affairs talk show called Consider This on Al Jazeera America
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