Jorge Ramos (news anchor)
| Jorge Ramos | |
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Ramos speaker for NASA'S Hispanic Education Campaign, January 2010
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| Born |
Jorge Gilberto Ramos Ávalos March 16, 1958 Mexico City, Mexico |
| Residence | Miami, Florida, U.S. |
| Citizenship | American |
| Occupation | Journalist, author |
| Employer | Univision |
| Notable credit(s) |
Noticiero Univision co-anchor (1988-present) Al Punto host (2007-present) Fusion host (2013-present) |
| Spouse(s) | Gina Montaner (divorced) Lisa Bolivar (divorced) |
| Partner(s) | Chiquinquirá Delgado |
| Children | 2 |
| Website | Official website |
Jorge Gilberto Ramos Ávalos (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈxorxe ˈramos]; born March 16, 1958) is a Mexican-born American journalist and author. Regarded as the best-known Spanish-language news anchor in the United States of America, he has been referred to as "The Walter Cronkite of Latin America". Currently based in Miami, Florida, he anchors the Univision news television program Noticiero Univision, the Univision Sunday-morning political news program Al Punto, and the Fusion TV English-language program America with Jorge Ramos. He has covered five wars, and events ranging from the fall of the Berlin Wall to the War in Afghanistan.
Ramos has won eight Emmy Awards and the Maria Moors Cabot Prize for excellence in journalism. He has also been included on Time magazine's list of "The World's Most Influential People".
Jorge Gilberto Ramos Ávalos was born March 16, 1958 in Mexico City, Mexico, to a Roman Catholic family, and was raised in the Bosques de Echegaray neighborhood of Naucalpan, a suburb of Mexico City. He attended the Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City where he majored in communications.
Ramos worked for Grupo Televisa's flagship XEW-TV in Mexico City for the network's local version of 60 Minutes. At the age of 24, he quit that job after a story he produced that was critical of Mexico's government was censored. In 1983, he left Mexico on a student visa for Los Angeles, California, where he planned to enroll in the UCLA Extension's journalism classes. In 1984, he was hired by KMEX-TV, an affiliate of what was then the Spanish International Network in Los Angeles, which operated on a shoestring budget in a run-down facility on Melrose Avenue. At KMEX, Ramos felt he could express himself freely: "To me it was a palace... the United States gave me opportunities that my country of origin could not: freedom of the press and complete freedom of expression." Two years later, he became the host for KMEX's morning program, Mundo Latino. Ramos then joined SIN's national operation in 1985, a year before the network was placed under new ownership under the new branding of the Univision network, which has a broad entertainment and news-sharing agreement with Televisa.
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