Name Cecilia Vega Role Journalist | Spouse Ricardo Jimenez TV shows Good Morning America | |
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Nominations Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Morning Program Profiles | ||
Cecilia M. Vega is an American journalist. She joined ABC News in 2011 as a Los Angeles based correspondent. She is currently the senior White House correspondent and had previously rotated with Tom Llamas as anchor of the weekend editions of ABC World News Tonight until January 2017. Since joining ABC News, she has covered a wide range of stories taking her across the country and overseas. Vega joined ABC News from KGO-TV in San Francisco, where she was part of a team awarded an Emmy in 2010. Before working in broadcast journalism, she was an experienced print journalist which included reporting for the San Francisco Chronicle.
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KGO-TV
Vega reported for the ABC network affiliate station KGO in San Francisco covering a wide variety of stories for the region during her three years with the station. In 2010 she was awarded an Emmy for exclusively interviewing someone who witnessed an attack on a student at her high school homecoming dance.
ABC News
Vega joined ABC News in 2011 as a correspondent based in Los Angeles. During her time as a correspondent Vega covered a wide range of stories which took her around the world. These assignments included traveling to Japan, Rome and London covering the Fukushima power plant, selection of a new Pope and the Olympics. She has taken a submarine to the bottom of the Arctic and petted whales in the Gulf of California. From Mexico's President Enrique Peña Nieto to Sylvester Stallone Vega has interviewed a variety of major newsmakers. In 2012, Vega covered the elections and inauguration of President Barack Obama. Other major national stories Vega covered include Ebola cases in the United States, the 2014 midterm election, the Sony computer hacking and fallout and allegations against Bill Cosby.
On March 2, 2015, she was named anchor of ABC News' World News Tonight Saturday. She held that role until January 2017, at which time she was named senior White House correspondent.
Awards
Vega is the recipient of many awards, including a local Emmy in 2010. She received awards from the California Newspaper Publishers Association, the East Bay Press Club, the Hearst Corporation and The New York Times.
Personal life
Vega is married to California Highway Patrol officer Ricardo Jiménez.