Name Monica Villamizar | Role Broadcaster | |
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Education Instituts d\'etudes politiques | ||
Monica villamizar from chapeco on preparations for funeral for chapecoense players
Mónica Villamizar Villegas is a Colombian broadcast journalist, currently working for ABC News in their London Bureau as an international correspondent.
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- Monica villamizar from chapeco on preparations for funeral for chapecoense players
- Career
- Awards
- Personal life
- References
Career
Freelance international correspondent - London. Previously, she was a London correspondent for CBS Newspath. Before joining CBS, Villamizar worked for Al Jazeera English for six years. Initially, she was the Colombian correspondent, based in Bogotá, from 2006 to 2007 and was then a reporter in the United States, at the Washington, DC bureau, from 2008 to 2012. She began her career in Colombia, working for Caracol TV's Noticias Caracol, from 2002 to 2007.
Awards
In 2006, she received a Premio Nacional de Periodismo Simón Bolívar award for the best TV feature or report, for her series of reports on South Africa's peace process broadcast November 2005 on Caracol TV.
Personal life
Villamizar is Colombian, but was born in Austin, Texas, United States. Hispanic naming-practice includes the maternal surname after the paternal name and so in a Latin American context she is also known as: Villamizar Villegas.
She completed in her education in France, with a master's degree in Political Science from the Institut d'Études Politiques in Paris.