Denisse Oller
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Denisse Oller (born September 30, 1955 in Puerto Rico) is an award-winning broadcaster, journalist, newspaper columnist, and a former cooking show host and news anchor at WXTV in New York City.
Born and raised in Puerto Rico, Denisse is an acclaimed and award-winning reported for the Univision's network. Prior to joining the network's station in New York, Denisse served as a national reporter for television stations in Atlanta, Los Angeles, Miami and Washington. She joined Noticiero 41 in 1999 and became the main anchor of the station's weekend edition shortly afterwards.
She won an Emmy award in 1992 for her coverage of the Gulf War, and served as host of Telemundo's popular newsmagazine Primera Hora from 1995 to 1999. In addition to her experience as a news anchor, Oller has interviewed many world leaders including former US President Ronald Reagan and Costa Rican president Oscar Arias Sanchez, artists, and writers such as Isabel Allende and Mario Vargas Llosa. She won national recognition when she covered the visit of Pope John Paul II to Cuba in 1992. Her interview with Zoilamerica Navráez, the stepdaughter of Nicaraguan president Daniel Ortega was highly covered by the Latin American press after she disclosed details of alleged sexual abuse by Ortega.
Her hard work and dedicated approach to informative and professional journalism has won a total of five Emmy's, two Gracies which are awarded by American Women in Radio and Television association. She has also been awarded the prestigious Edward R. Murrow Award for journalism.
In addition to her hosting duties, in 2006, Oller was given her own cooking show on WXTU, which airs weekday mornings. Besides her television career she is a columnist for local Spanish-language newspapers El Diario La Prensa and Hoy. In addition to her television work, she sits on the boards of the Committee for Hispanic Children and Families and the Puerto Rican Family Institute, as well as several other charitable and social organizations.
Oller resides in New Jersey with her husband, Cuban essayist Juan Montoro and their two daughters and is an activist for Latinos, immigrants' and women's rights.
On November 2, 2007, Oller officially ended her 20-year old career with WXTV to pursue independent ventures and plans on forming a multimedia company that will involve television, print, radio and Internet projects.[1]
