Enrique Acevedo | |
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Born |
Mexico City, Mexico |
March 6, 1978
Nationality | Mexican |
Alma mater | Tec de Monterrey (ITESM) Campus Monterrey / Columbia University |
Occupation | News Anchor, Univision |
Known for | News Anchor at Univision News Correspondent Mexican Journalists Hispanic Journalists |
He's been recognized as one of the "Top Latinos in American Newsrooms," by the Huffington Post . and a ""Global Media Leader,"" by the World Economic Forum .. ""Enrique Acevedo (born March 6, 1978) is the anchor of the award-winning Noticiero Univision late-night edition, and a special correspondent for The Fusion Media Group.
Acevedo has covered the news around the world for print, broadcast and digital media, including Fidel Castro's funeral in Cuba, the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami in Japan, the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Africa, the humanitarian crisis in Haiti and the drug wars in Mexico and Latin America. He's also reported on every major news story in the U.S. for the past decade. During the 2016 presidential cycle he co-moderated Univision's Democratic Debate and led the network's electoral coverage along Maria Elena Salinas and Jorge Ramos.
He has interviewed some of the most influential figures in the world including President Barack Obama, philanthropist Melinda Gates, Nobel Peace Prize winners Jody Williams, Desmond Tutu, Kofi Annan and Juan Manuel Santos, as well as many other global leaders in the fields of science, finance and technology .
His work has been published in The New York Times, El Pais, Reforma, Milenio, Letras Libres, Fusion and The New York Review of Magazines. He's a frequent contributor on NPR's Here and Now, and on many of the most popular radios shows across Latin America.