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Role
  
Journalist

Name
  
Jose Diaz-Balart


Children
  
2

Occupation
  
Journalist, Anchorman

Parents
  
Rafael Diaz-Balart

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Full Name
  
Jose Diaz-Balart

Born
  
November 7, 1960 (age 63) (
1960-11-07
)
Fort Lauderdale, Florida

Employer
  
MSNBC, NBC News and Telemundo

Family
  
Mario Diaz-Balart (brother) Lincoln Diaz-Balart (brother) Rafael Diaz-Balart (brother) Mirta Diaz-Balart (aunt) Waldo Diaz-Balart (uncle)

Siblings
  
Mario Diaz-Balart, Lincoln Diaz-Balart

Cousins
  
Fidel Angel Castro Diaz-Balart

Nephews
  
Cristian Balart, Lincoln Diaz-Balart, Daniel Diaz-Balart

TV shows
  
MSNBC Live, Jose Diaz‑Balart, Noticiero Telemundo, The Rundown with Jose, NBC Nightly News

Similar People
  
Andrea Mitchell, Mario Diaz‑Balart, Maria Celeste Arraras, Lincoln Diaz‑Balart, Rafael Diaz‑Balart

Profiles


Alma mater
  
New College of Florida

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José Díaz-Balart (born November 7, 1960) is a Cuban-American journalist and television anchorman. He is currently the anchor for Noticiero Telemundo, the Telemundo network's hispanic news program, as well as the network's public affairs Sunday morning program Enfoque con Jose Diaz-Balart. He is also anchor of NBC Nightly News on Saturdays.

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In August 1996 he made history by becoming the first Cuban-American to host a network news program when he became anchor for the CBS News program This Morning. He co-hosted Telemundo Network's first morning news and entertainment show, Esta Mañana, as well as its public affairs show, Cada Día.

Diaz-Balart is the recipient of a national Emmy for his work with Telemundo Network. Díaz-Balart received two Emmy awards while he was working at WTVJ-TV in Miami, an Associated Press Award and four Hispanic Excellence in Journalism Awards, all in the 1980s. He also received a Du Pont and Peabody as well as the Orchid award for best news anchor in the U.S. in 2006. Media 100 has named him best anchor three times, and Hispanic Business Magazine named him one of the "100 most influential people in the U.S." He was given the Silver Circle Award by the National Academy of Television Sciences in 2010. As of June 2011, Diaz-Balart has filled in for MSNBC anchor Contessa Brewer in the 12pm time slot, hosting the one-hour program MSNBC Live.

For the second time Diaz-Balart made history when he substituted for Brewer on MSNBC Live for the week of June 20 through 24, 2011 in the show’s 12 PM time slot, making him the first U.S. journalist to broadcast both English and Spanish newscasts on two networks simultaneously.

On May 20, 2014, MSNBC announced that Diaz-Balart would begin hosting the 10 AM news hour beginning in mid-June. He replaced Chris Jansing, the newly named NBC News Senior White House Correspondent. It was announced on November 10, 2014, that Diaz-Balart would be taking over hosting duties on The Daily Rundown on November 17, 2014, with the program expanding to two hours, essentially absorbing Diaz-Balart's eponymous show that had previously aired during the second hour. The Daily Rundown would later become known as MSNBC Live with Jose Diaz-Balart as part of a wider restructuring of MSNBC's dayside programming.

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Family

Díaz-Balart is the son of Rafael Díaz-Balart y Gutiérrez (a former Cuban politician) and of Hilda Caballero Brunet. He has three brothers, Rafael Diaz-Balart (a banker), Mario Diaz-Balart (a US representative) and Lincoln Diaz-Balart (a former US representative). His aunt, Mirta Diaz-Balart, was Fidel Castro’s first wife and therefore Fidel Castro is his uncle through marriage and Fidel Castro Jr.(Fidelito) his first cousin. His uncle, Waldo Diaz-Balart, is a Cuban painter. He is married and has two daughters.

References

Jose Diaz-Balart Wikipedia