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Jorge ramos and mar a elena salinas on the rise of hispanic america
María Elena Salinas is an American broadcast journalist, news anchor, and author. Salinas has been the co-anchor of Noticiero Univision, the flagship evening news broadcast on Univision, since 1987. Since 2000, she is also a co-host on Aquí y Ahora (Here and Now), a news magazine program also broadcast on Univision. These two programs are watched by millions of viewers across the Americas, including 18 Latin American countries.
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- Jorge ramos and mar a elena salinas on the rise of hispanic america
- Mar a elena salinas recibe doctorado honorario
- Journalism career
- Public service and philanthropy
- Awards and recognition
- Personal life
- References
In the course of her career, Salinas has covered many of the major stories of the day and has been recognized for her work as a journalist and philanthropist. She was described in 2006 as the “Voice of Hispanic America” by the New York Times.
Mar a elena salinas recibe doctorado honorario
Journalism career
Salinas began her journalistic career as a reporter, anchor and public affairs host for KMEX-TV, the Univision affiliate in Los Angeles, in 1981. Recognized for her reporting on the impact of daily news to the increasingly growing Hispanic community in Southern California, she assumed the anchorship of the national Spanish language news program Noticiero Univision in 1987.
As an anchor, she has conducted high-profile interviews with prominent global figures, ranging from Latin American Heads of State to Zapatista Army of National Liberation spokesman Subcomandante Marcos and every U.S. President since Jimmy Carter. She has also interviewed celebrities, such as Jennifer Lopez, Ricky Martin and Gloria Estefan.
Salinas has reported both domestically and internationally, on topics ranging from the struggles of the Dreamers and the plight of refugees and immigrants, elections around the globe, dictatorships, drug traffickers, Latin American guerrilla insurgencies, and epic disasters including Haiti’s earthquake in 2010 and the tornadoes that swept through Oklahoma in 2013. Salinas’ was among the first female journalists to report from the war-torn streets of Baghdad.
In 2004, Salinas was a moderator of the first-ever bilingual national Democratic presidential candidate debate on Hispanic issues, and three years later she co-hosted the first-ever Democratic and Republican presidential candidate forums in Spanish on the Univision Network.
Valued for her knowledge and expertise on Hispanic issues, she has been interviewed by noted journalists, Katie Couric and Bill Moyers, among others.
A former columnist, her work in both English and Spanish was distributed by King Features Syndicate.
Public service and philanthropy
Focused on her mission to empower the Latino community, for nearly two decades Salinas has worked as a volunteer with NALEO, the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials, encouraging immigrants to vote and participate in the political process. The program has grown to become a Peabody Award-winning initiative entitled "Ya Es Hora" (It's Time), for which she serves as the official spokesperson.
Salinas is one of the founders of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists and was inducted into the association's Hall of Fame in 2006. Salinas also sponsors the Maria Elena Salinas Scholarship for college students interested in Spanish news broadcasting.
She also sits on the boards of the Hispanic Scholarship Fund and the International Women’s Media Foundation.
Awards and recognition
Salinas has won numerous awards and distinctions for both her journalism and philanthropic work.
Salinas won a 2014 Peabody Award, Walter Cronkite Award and Gracies Award for her news and documentary special "Entre el abandono y el rechazo" (Between Abandonment and Rejection), a prime-time report on the exodus of Central American children to the United States, which judges praised as "balanced and revealing."
In 2014, she won the Broadcast Legend Award from the Radio and Television News Association of Southern California. In 2012, with her co-anchor Jorge Ramos, she received an Emmy Award for Lifetime Achievement from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences . Earlier in her career, Salinas was part of the Univision News team that received the Edward R. Murrow Award for the network’s coverage of the Atlanta Olympic Park bombings in 1996.
For her philanthropic work, Salinas is a recipient of the Intrepid Award from the National Organization for Women, and has been honored by organizations including the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund, the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials and the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute, among others.
In 2016, Salinas served as commencement speaker in American University and California State University, Fullerton and received an honorary doctorate from American University.
Personal life
Salinas' parents immigrated to the United States from Mexico in the 1940s. She was born in Los Angeles in 1954. As a child, she lived in Mexico for 7 years, and was reared in Los Angeles. Since 1991, Salinas has lived in Miami with her 2 daughters, Julia Alexandra and Gabriela Maria.
Salinas' autobiography, Yo Soy la Hija de mi Padre (I Am my Father's Daughter) was published in 2006. It covers her discovery that her deceased father had once been a Catholic priest, and her investigation into this.