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John Quiñones: 1952—: Broadcast Journalist Biography - Came From The Barrio, Moved To Abc, Reported For Primetime Live, Became News Show Host

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John Quiñones: 1952—: Broadcast journalist.

A familiar face to American television viewers, John Quiñones is one of the most prominent Hispanics in broadcast journalism. An ABC News network correspondent since 1982 and anchor of 20/20 Downtown since 1999, Quiñones' award-wining reporting has appeared on ABC's World News Tonight, and ABC's television news-magazines PrimeTime Live, Primetime Thursday, and 20/20. In addition to national and international events, Quiñones has reported extensively on Latin America and on the Hispanic-American community.

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John Quiñones: 1952—: Broadcast Journalist - Came From The Barrio

John Manuel Quiñones was born on May 23, 1952, in San Antonio, Texas, the son of Bruno and Maria Quiñones. Although a fifth-generation San Antonian, Quiñones did not learn English until he started school at age six. His tough, Spanish-speaking neighborhood was rife with gangs and drugs. For many years his father worked as a janitor at the high school that he attended and schoo…

John Quiñones: 1952—: Broadcast Journalist - Moved To Abc

In 1982 Quiñones joined the ABC network news division as a general assignment correspondent for World News Tonight and other ABC News programs. His base in Miami, Florida, enabled him to cover Latin American stories that were unavailable to other journalists. Throughout the 1980s he produced analyses of the civil war in El Salvador and the economic crises and political scandals in Argentina…

John Quiñones: 1952—: Broadcast Journalist - Reported For Primetime Live

Quiñones became a correspondent for ABC's weekly news program, PrimeTime Live, in 1991. During his first season, his report on the exploitation of Haitian children laboring in the cane fields of the Dominican Republic, "Bitter Harvest," earned him the Overseas Press Club's Eric and Amy Burger Award for Best Reporting from Abroad. The program also won a 1992 Emmy …

John Quiñones: 1952—: Broadcast Journalist - Became News Show Host

In recent years correspondents for ABC and other network news teams have been assigned stories to be used on a variety of news programs. During the 1997-98 television season, Quiñones was a member of the ABC News team assembled to report on the Albanian refugee crisis in Kosovo, for a one-hour 20/20 special and other ABC News programs. The following season ABC ran four editions of 20/20 eac…

John Quiñones: 1952—: Broadcast Journalist - Reported And Anchored Latino Specials

Recognizing the growing influence of Hispanic culture on American life, Quiñones was named reporter and anchor for a 1999 ABC News special called The Latin Beat. Having been based in Miami for 15 years, Quiñones was uniquely qualified to present a program that focused on positive aspects of America's Hispanic communities. The program looked at the growing political and economi…

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