An activist hedge fund, Standard General LP, recently nominated rival directors, saying it wanted to diversify the company's largely white board. Lori Lizarraga says she was told by 9News she would be an asset and joined the station after two years as a reporter in Bakersfield, Calif. She says she was excited to be a general assignment reporter, closer to her family's home in Dallas and appearing on the air in a major market. 506,000 Twitter followers. The anchors use their training and skills to deliver the news and have become powerful voices on cable TV. An intense romance with a railway worker who would end up killing himself, was one of several tragedies throughout her life that would inspire her poetry, and it was her sonnets memorializing the dead, Sonetos de la muerte, in 1914 that would make her famous throughout Latin America. She says she ended up shying away from stories involving immigration. Emails among Ryan, other news leaders and Lizarraga reflect that supervisors told the reporter repeatedly that she fell short, starting around the time of the protests and moving forward. "Any of us who've worked in journalism for any period of time know that there tends to be a way we do things that's been ingrained for many years," Jurgemeyer says. She has written a series of op-ed columns on Latin America for The New York Times. These are just a few standout examples of Latinos who did really great work with World Cup media. News, where she made network history for being the first Latina in that position. She retired from editor of "Book World" to become The Washington Post's writer at large in 2009. Michele Abercromibe/NPR Sotomayor won a scholarship to Princeton University and graduated summa cum laude in 1976 and went on to receive her law degree from Yale. MySA staff. Lori Lizarraga says she was told by 9News she would be an asset and joined the station after two years as a reporter in Bakersfield, Calif. She says she was excited to be a general assignment reporter, closer to her family's home in Dallas and appearing on the air in a major market. But before we get into the details of a year in Latino media excellence, I want to first share how this list comes together every year. Instead of channeling that fervor, Lizarraga says, it was largely deflected. " She says the station had swagger and sway. Born in 1890 in San Pedro Piedra Gorda, Eulalia Guzmn was an educator, feminist and philosopher best known as Mexico's first female archaeologist. Lizarraga, who left in March, says she hit an inflection point early last year. In Denver, Ryan, KUSA's chief news executive, sent a memo to staff the day after Lizarraga's piece was posted by Westword. We are choosing what is newsworthy based on what you care to talk about, not what is actually newsworthy.". This has been a really great year for Latino talent in American media. In the past year and a half, she says, the station has assigned workplace "buddies" to newcomers to help them acclimate them to its pace, culture and expectations. The second-most popular foreign language spoken is French at 8.0% and Chinese is the third-most popular at 5.5%. Madalyn Mendoza is a proud Alamo City native. Since retirement as a full-time host and contributor, she continued to report for ABC News through 2015 occasionally. In 2021, women earned 99% of what men earned. Jeannette Reyes is an anchor for FOX 5 Morning and Good Day D.C. All three are white, as are Jurgemeyer and Ryan. [14] In her writing Obejas was able to detail her experiences as a lesbian, Jewish, and Cuban immigrant in her fiction and short story collections throughout the nineties. Federal court records show that case, centering on a civil rights violation claim of retaliation, was resolved out of court in a confidential settlement. Employees with the news anchor job title have their preferences when it comes to working for a company. When she finally achieved it, however, it came at too steep a cost, she says. Let me know in the comments or tweet them at @vato. 9News is also unusually woven into the fabric of parent company Tegna. Fusion editor in chief 189,000 Twitter followers. In fact, Allende would become the first woman to be awarded the Gabriela Mistral Order of Merit. On September 26, 2020, Marie Arana participated in a 39-minute film titled, This page was last edited on 29 January 2023, at 23:07. This list of famous female reporters is ranked by their level of prominence, with photos when available. Hispanic and Latino American women in journalism A Patricia Alvarado Nuez Aida lvarez Rose Arce Anna Mara Aras B Julie Banderas Lynda Baquero C Ana Cabrera Rachel Campos-Duffy Marysol Castro Victoria Corderi F Cassandra Fairbanks Giselle Fernndez Michelle Fields G Cristina Garca (journalist) Patricia Gras Kimberly Guilfoyle Welcome to Beyond Bylines, Cision PR Newswires blog for the media. Beyond the usual awards, promotions, and standout work that shares quickly throughout Latinos Twitter, this year I specifically sought to elevate Latinos for two reasons. While others are able to connect with the millennial generation of Latinos, who are looking to balance their cultural values with their American ones. Sawyer has been the anchor of ABC News's nightly flagship program ABC World News, a co-anchor of ABC News's morning news program Good Morning America and Primetime newsmagazine. and help keep the future of Westword, Use of this website constitutes acceptance of our, Kristen Aguirre, that was eleven months after she had a stroke. This year's list makes conscious effort to elevate a surname-unspecific vision of Latino affairs. She helped develop the Ixcateopan, Guerrero archaeological project, an archive of her country's history, and the National Library of Anthropology and History. She was told she had failed to turn in two digital text versions of her television pieces. Back then, it was housed inside KUSA's headquarters. Explore the many ways in which Latina women have broken gender and cultural barriers. People of color now make up a third of the entire newsroom at KUSA 9News in Denver. hide caption, Kristen Aguirre is now working in Asheville, N.C. At KUSA 9News, Aguirre says, she believed her pursuit of community-driven news brought value. During the early twentieth century several women along the Texas-Mexican border in Laredo were instrumental in spreading word about their concern for the civil rights of Mexicans and disdain for then dictator, Porfirio Daz, through their writing in Hispanic newspapers. KUSA's general manager, Mark Cornetta, is also the executive vice president of Tegna Media, the company's local television division. She also wrote feature pieces on books, Hispanics, and diversity for other sections of the newspaper, including the front page. Initially, she felt as though her reporting skills were rusty. News, The Insider, Entertainment Tonight and EXTRA. "When I asked for an explanation. "Because of the reputation of 9News, this is an intimidating place when you start working here," Jurgemeyer says. I am grateful for having had the privilege to inform and empower the Latino community through the work my colleagues and I do with such passion," she stated while stepping down from Univision, adding, "As long as I have a voice, I will always use it to speak on their behalf.. I know the questions to ask." Lizarraga recalls even having her hairstyles vetoed. Since then, she has built her reputation on being an advocate for criminal justice reform and women's rights. In the official memo last winter announcing Lizarraga's departure, Chris Vanderveen, KUSA's director of reporting, wrote, "She learned not just how to fight for stories but how to fight for the subjects of those stories as well. Her new station has an anchor, just retired, who returned from his own traumatic brain injury. Fox News Latino reporter. Jul 10, 2014 - Explore Natalie Torres's board "Latina Journalists" on Pinterest. "The 'Fox & Friends Weekend' team is amazing and I look forward to hosting alongside my. 10% of all news anchors are LGBT. "I can tell a story in a much different way than a female white reporter can because I lived it. However, just a year in office, Juan suffered from a series of heart attacks and died on July 1, 1974. Nor are two other Latina reporters. Gutierrez says she was told that she could report on immigration, an issue about which she cares deeply, but only if she were to state her own immigration status on air in every story on the subject. Hispanic presses provided information important to the Hispanic and Latin American communities and helped to foster and preserve the cultural values that remain today. "I was like, 'I'm not confused about the grammar, y'all'," Lizarraga recalls. She is currently signed to WWE where she has served as an ambassador since 2013. Marie Arana (born in Lima, Peru, and educated in the U.S.) joined The Washington Post in 1992. JerSean Golatt for NPR [11] During this period Francisca Flores, another women's rights activist, began writing for La Luz Magazine and Mas Grafca. Mike Brooks (HLN) Andrew Brown (CNN) Pamela Brown (CNN) Ron Brownstein (CNN) Kim Brunhuber (CNN/CNN International) Frank Bruni (CNN) Isabel Bucaram (CNN en Espaol) Samuel Burke (CNN & CNN en Espaol) Erin Burnett (CNN) Diego Bustos (CNN en Espaol) Dylan Byers (CNN) Catherine Callaway (CNN/HLN) Alisyn Camerota (CNN) She came to Denver after being an anchor at a smaller station in Flint, Mich. And it renewed long-held frustrations: Torres says the three Latina journalists had been hired after an earlier round of discussions between the station and Denver-area Latino officials about representation at KUSA. 16,000 Twitter followers. As a doctorate student, she focused her studies primarily on optical systems involving high tech space exploration, which eventually led her into the NASA space program in 1991. independent local journalism in Denver. I know the questions to ask. "And maybe some of that goes out the window.". Despite her lower-middle-class background and her fifth-grade education, former nightclub dancer Isabel Pern would become Latin America's first female president. hide caption. "We can't be exhausted, we can't be scared," Lizarraga recalled telling colleagues. We found most news anchors work for a private company. As a moderate Republican, Ros-Lehtinen was considered one of the most popular bipartisan politicians before retiring her House seat in 2017. .css-m6thd4{-webkit-text-decoration:none;text-decoration:none;display:block;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;font-family:Gilroy,Helvetica,Arial,Sans-serif;font-size:1.125rem;line-height:1.2;font-weight:bold;color:#323232;text-transform:capitalize;}@media (any-hover: hover){.css-m6thd4:hover{color:link-hover;}}Ken Starr. She lectured and served as an educator throughout the United States, Europe and Cuba and received honorary degrees at renowned universities. She read up on it as she raced with a colleague in the official KUSA 9News van to the press conference. She hosts the podcast Conversations with Maria Menounos. After KUSA 9News didn't renew her contract, Lizarraga returned home to be with her family in Dallas and started to prepare her account that appeared this spring in Westword. Read also. But Gutierrez, 30, says she balked at the station's directive. "9News is the market leader in Denver and has been for decades," KUSA news director Megan Jurgemeyer says in the station's first official interview since Lizarraga's article came out. These presses also "promoted education, provided special-interest columns, and often founded magazines, publishing houses, and bookstores to disseminate the ideas of local and external writers."[1]. Click through the gallery above to for the 16 names in journalism you may have already heard and those you should keep an eye out for. Last year, as people protested in the streets and in corporate offices, Tegna stepped forward and said it was working to meet the moment. Using a database of 30 million profiles, Zippia estimates demographics and statistics for news anchors in the United States. The other's contract was not renewed five months after she had returned after having a stroke. 4,124 Twitter followers. Kristen Aguirre, one of the journalists let go in the past year, says: "I didn't really know its reputation until my agent told me, 'Listen we go there, you put your time in there, you can go to whatever station you want.' If you need to flag this entry as abusive. Featuring female reporters from ABC, NBC, FOX, and other networks, this list also has both nightly and morning television newscasters. List of famous female tv anchors, listed by their level of prominence with photos when available. As Gutierrez rose at Telemundo Denver, she also pitched stories to KUSA. In meetings with Tegna and KUSA officials this spring, a group of local elected officials, all Latina, called for the dismissal of KUSA's top news executive, Tim Ryan. Juan Diego Reyes for NPR Thank you for reading my Hub and for your comments. Make a one-time donation today for as little as $1. Featuring female reporters from ABC, NBC, FOX, and other networks, this list also has both nightly and morning television newscasters. Women Earn 99 For Every $1 Earned By Men. Sara Estela Ramrez was an educator who joined Partido Liberal Mexicano, a progressive Mexican political party that consisted of mainly men. [1] Flores wrote about her opinions on women's rights in her own magazine, Regeneracin and founded the Comisin Femenil Mexicana Nacional. Couric has been a television host on all Big Three television networks in the United States, and in her early career was an Assignment Editor for CNN. 439,000 Twitter followers. For instance, most news anchors prefer to work at private companies over public companies. While Hoffman accepted Lougee's apology, he wrote a letter to the CEO raising concerns of "unconscious bias.". Like Nieto-Gmez, Flores found certain elements of the Chicano movement to be sexist and supported rights for Chicano women. The sole news leader of color is Erica Tinsley, who is Afro-Latina and formerly the executive producer of several news programs and a leader of 9News' diversity and equity efforts. She worked for NBC News from 1989 to 2006 . 6:06AM. You are also agreeing to our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. [12] Guillermoprieto would go on to write for Newsweek and The New Yorker, reporting on subjects in South America. Jennifer Lynne Brown (born March 23, 1981) is an American sports broadcaster and television host. 6.4% of News Anchors are Black or African American, Most a are White, with 66.7% of News Anchors belonging to this ethnicity. 44% of News Anchors are 40+ years old or older, 32% are between the ages of 30-40 years, and 24% are between 20-30 years old, Hispanic or latino news anchors have the highest, Arts, Entertainment, Sports, and Media Industry, 51.3% of all news anchors are women, while, The average age of an employed news anchor is. 16 of the hottest Latino journalists in the United States and beyond. Born in Los Angeles in 1958, Ellen Ochoa immersed herself in the sciences, graduating from San Diego State University with a bachelor's in physics (1980) and later from Stanford University with a master's in science (1981) and a doctorate in electrical engineering (1985). The outcry has focused an unwanted glare on Tegna, one of the nation's largest and most prominent owners of local television stations, just as the company faces claims of racial bias from a dissident investor. She maintains that she did not crash deadlines, although she sometimes pushed up against them. "We, like all newsrooms, should strive to do better. For example, its filings pointed to one Halloween in the 1980s when Dennis wore blackface in portraying Michael Jackson and KUSA declared it the best costume. "There was just something wrong with who I was a liability to them.". Bitch, Retrieved from, National Association of Hispanic Journalists, http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fid03, http://bitchmagazine.org/post/adventures-in-feministory-sara-estela-ram%C3%ADrez, "The O.A.S. Between 2008 and 2018, this is how the number of news anchors changed. Gutierrez now works across town at Rocky Mountain PBS. Their children are usually bilingual 'Latinos'. Political activism ran in Ilena Ros-Lehtinen's family. More than 100 journalists work in the KUSA newsroom (which also serves its sister station, KTVD), far more than the 60-some news staffers at the once-dominant local newspaper The Denver Post. She received her medical degree from the University of the Dominican Republic in 1909 and began building her career in small towns and giving medical care to the poorest citizens. I have created a Collection in Tweetdeck for storing specific top Latino tweets for embedding throughout next year's list, just as I have Alberto Ciurana's mighty tweet below. Beyond Bylines 2023. "[6] After moving to Laredo, she began to write for a local newspaper and became a member of Junta Revolutionaria. Anchor Leon Krauze broadcasted in Spanish for Univision while writing English-language essays as a soccer correspondent for The New Republic. So I'd be in those meetings and I would ask 'Why?' sound mixer (unknown episodes) Series Visual Effects by Series Camera and Electrical Department Series Editorial Department Tyne M. Whitmore . In 2021, women earned 99% of what men earned. While operating a private school in Miami in the early 80s, Ros-Lehtinen was elected to the Florida House of Representatives, becoming the first Latina to accomplish this. Drawing from historical events (her father's first cousin was Chilean president Salvador Allende, who was overthrown in a military coup in 1973) and her own experience, Allende honors the stories of women in mythical fashion and is credited to have transformed non-fiction literature. "I was very upset and I said, 'You know, if this were a community in a ZIP code just up the street with a different demographic, we would have had reporters on every corner ' " to interview residents, Lizarraga says. Some of the top women of Fox News include Martha MacCallum, Shannon Bream, Sandra Smith, Liz Claman, Dana Perino, and Harris Faulkner. News, and served as a TV correspondent for Today, Access Hollywood, and co-hosted the Eurovision Song Contest 2006 in Athens, Greece. James A Watkins (author) from Chicago on June 13, 2012: nhoyons I am really glad that you fine folks in Poland enjoy the Women of Fox News so much. hide caption. News anchors are 71% more likely to work at private companies in comparison to public companies. People of color now make up a third of the entire newsroom at KUSA 9News in Denver. Denver's independent source of In addition, the industry that employs the most news anchors is the media industry. In 2019, a sports anchor at the company's Phoenix station accused its general manager recently promoted from a job as KUSA's sales manager of making "loud and unwelcome racist and sexist comments about coworkers" at a baseball game, in a civil complaint reviewed by NPR. "It is racist to require a Latino reporter, a Hispanic reporter, to disclose their own immigration status [to viewers] before reporting on immigration," says Julio-Csar Chvez, the association's vice president. A close second is associate degree with 8% and rounding it off is master's degree with 6%. Another Chilean artist, Isabel Allende, would follow in Mistral's footsteps to become "the world's most widely read Spanish-language author." In addition to her television news roles, she hosted Katie, a syndicated daytime talk show produced by DisneyABC Domestic Television from September 10, 2012, to June 9, 2014. Sandra Cisneros celebrates anniversary on Mango St. Natalie channels Morton Salt Umbrella Girl in springtime dress, Natalie Morales (Today Show) in the Serenity necklace. Female news reporters and female journalists have worked hard to become the best that they can be, so if you're a girl aspiring to be a reporter then the people below should give you inspiration. People have to feel like we're listening to them, that we're not just always talking at them.". Sandra Smith joined Fox Business as a reporter in 2007. The ouster of the three reporters revealed when one of them, Lori Lizarraga, wrote about it in Westword, a local alternative weekly has revived profound criticisms of the station. hide caption. Having names like O'Keefe, McSwain, and Ailsworth appear in a Twitter list of Latino media talent was a frequent and important reminder that cookie cutter perceptions of American heritage always fail. Standard General also contends that Tegna's leadership is following the wrong business strategy. The content is all in English and focused solely on the U.S. with coverage of news, politics, health, and economics. "We continue to prioritize diversity, equity and inclusion in our newsroom and at the station," Ryan wrote in the memo, which was obtained by NPR. Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty Images KUSA set up studio time for Aguirre to practice hosting and provided a photojournalist to carry her equipment and shoot footage on assignments. Dave Lougee, its CEO, is a former news director at the station. Soon, Lizarraga, 27, clashed with editors over her refusal to call someone "an illegal immigrant" or say they were "in the country illegally." But Aguirre says she believed her pursuit of community-driven news brought value. There are three people of color, including Tripp, in Tegna's nine-person corporate leadership team. Tweet them @vato. 2023 BuzzFeed, Inc. All rights reserved. Wake up to the day's most important news. A Top Donor Objected, Rancor Erupts In 'LA Times' Newsroom Over Race, Equity And Protest Coverage, now works across town at Rocky Mountain PBS, who returned from his own traumatic brain injury, the Colorado ACLU will honor the three women. The Bureau of Labor Statistics came in clutch when it came down to figuring out how the unemployment rate has changed over time. Though owned by Tegna, KUSA is an affiliate of NBC, and Telemundo is part of NBC's parent company, Comcast. After extensive research and analysis, Zippia's data science team found that: 51.3% of news anchors are women and 48.7% of news anchors are men. "[10] Through Nieto-Gmez's writing she pointed out what she called "maternal chauvinism" and her views about women and stereotypes about them in the Chicano culture. The most common foreign language among news anchors is Spanish at 47.2%. In 2002 33% of journalists were women. Biography and associated logos are trademarks of A+E Networksprotected in the US and other countries around the globe. Some of the female MSNBC news anchors include Stephanie Ruhle, Rachel Maddow, Nicole Wallace, Joy Reid, Andrea Mitchell. Her supervisors had their own take. Focusing her career in education, Ros-Lehtinen earned both her a bachelor's degree in 1975 and a master's degree in 1985 at Florida International University. And Patti Dennis, a Tegna vice president and director of recruitment, is herself a former KUSA news director. March 28, 2021 Although I was recovering [from the stroke], I was still that woman who would push back. "NBC Nightly News" as you know it today wasn't formally created until 1970, but for more than 20 years prior, a series of news programs slowly evolved into the 30 . The most common ethnicity of news anchors is White (66.7%), followed by Hispanic or Latino (12.6%), Asian (9.7%) and Black or African American (6.4%). Meanwhile, she says, she was not recognized for the initiative she showed, such as the data-driven pieces that officials and advocates said (in text messages reviewed by NPR) served as a road map for government agencies seeking to arrange COVID-19 testing in heavily affected Black and Latino neighborhoods. "For me, the biggest incident was when I was told that I could not do any more immigration stories unless I disclosed my immigration status on air," Gutierrez says. You will definitely recognize these big names of women in journalism, reporting, and newscasting (and that includes sports!). No, News Anchor jobs are not male - dominated. By looking over 2,584 news anchors resumes, we figured out that the average news anchor enjoys staying at their job for 1-2 years for a percentage of 38%. Anchors and Correspondents Laura Barrn-Lpez, White House Correspondent Geoff Bennett, Co-Anchor William Brangham, Correspondent Jeffrey Brown, Chief Correspondent for Arts, Culture, and. [5] As a result, Villegas wrote about the experiences of the nurses and people of Jurez in The Rebel, which was not published until 1994 by Arte Pblico Press. She also co-created and is currently CEO of online podcast series network AfterBuzz TV. Born in 1879, Rodriguez was raised by her grandmother and diligently worked her way through school and earned her education, despite the social and cultural challenges of being a poor half-Black female who was a product of wedlock. Among Hispanic and Latino journalists (3.3% total), 46.2% were women.[15]. Hispanic and Latino American women in journalism, Johnson, K. (April 26, 2010). Known as the "Voice of Hispanic America," Salinas recently retired from her role at Univision but continues to focus on her philanthropy, which includes education, promoting women's media, and increasing voter registration within her community. The memo suggested using precise language such as "asylum seeker," "immigrant" or "migrant" or "unaccompanied minor.". Ramrez had her writing published in La Crnica and another Hispanic newspaper, El Democrata Fronterizo, including two of her own self-publications, La Corregidora and Aurora. Last modified September 22, 2014. "It's not like there was something wrong with me or my reporting," says Gutierrez, who left last year. The question of how to characterize such matters has prompted debate in many newsrooms, including NPR, and standards have evolved over time. The average age of an employed news anchor is 40 years old. [3] With her novel Memory Mambo, Obejas explored the life of a conflicted Cuban American lesbian and won a Lambda Literary Award for her story. New York Times Metro Desk1,594 Twitter followers.
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