Jorge ramos author biography template
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2014 CPJ Burton Benjamin Memorial Awardee
Jorge Ramos is a Mexican-American journalist and author. He has co-anchored the award-winning evening newscast “Noticiero Univision” (Univision News) since 1986. He also hosts “Al Punto” (To the Point), the Univision Network’s Sunday public affairs program, and recently started hosting his first program in English, “America with Jorge Ramos,” on Fusion, a TV network and joint venture between ABC News and Univision News.
Ramos is one of the most highly respected journalists in the United States and Latin America. He has covered five wars and has reported some of the most important news stories of the past two decades, including the fall of the Berlin Wall, the disintegration of the former Soviet Union, the 9/11 terrorist attacks, Hurricane Katrina, and the resignation of Pope Benedict XVI. Ramos has interviewed some of the world’s most influential political leaders and writers of the 21st
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Ramos, Jorge: 1958—: Journalist, Author
A powerful influence on Latinos and a star news anchor and reporter, Jorge Ramos is Spanish-language television's most durable personality. In his reporting, television appearances and debates, and freelance writing, Ramos molds opinion concerning the perils of immigrating to the United States and the importance to Americans of the growing bilingual Hispanic minority. Familiar to fans of Spanish-language evening news in Texas, California, and Florida, he nets top ratings and viewer loyalty for incisive news from Latin America and for hard-edged interviews with prime figures from politics, current events, and the arts. His two decades of on-camera work have been about more than the delivery of information: to Ramos, telecasting is a mission, a vehicle for social change.
Homeland Versus Aspirations
Born in Mexico City on March 16, 1958, Ramos loved athletics in boyhood and enjoyed track and field with a Mexican team until a back injury en
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Jorge Ramos's work covers the issues that affect the 55 million Latinos in the United States and immigrants all over the world.
Why you should listen
Jorge Ramos immigrated to the United States from Mexico City, on a lärling visa at the age of 24. What started as a street beat for a local Spanish-language broadcast in Los Angeles in the 1980s has evolved into a career of remarkable distinction and credibility. Today, Ramos co-anchors Univision's flagship Spanish-language broadcast, “Noticiero Univisión," writes a nationally syndicated column, hosts the Sunday Morning show "Al Punto" and now, the English language schema, "America with Jorge Ramos." He fryst vatten the winner of eight Emmys and the author of eleven books, including Take a Stand: Lessons from Rebels, 2016; A Country for All: An Immigrant Manifesto; and Dying to Cross: The Worst Immigrant Tragedy in American History.
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