John Quiñones
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John Quiñones is an ABC News correspondent.
From 1975 to 1978, Quiñones was a news editor at KTRH radio in Houston, Texas. During that period, he also was an anchor-reporter for KPRC-TV. He was also a reporter with WBBM-TV in Chicago.
In 1982, Quiñones joined ABC News as a general assignment correspondent based in Miami.
Currently, he is a co-anchor of the ABC News program, Primetime.
Quiñones received a Bachelor of Arts degree in speech communications from St. Mary's University, San Antonio, Texas. He received a master's degree from the Columbia School of Journalism.
[edit] Awards
- George Foster Peabody Award, 1999, ABC News, New York, New York, "ABC 2000" (also known as ABC 2000 Today.)
- Awarded an ALMA Award from the National Council of La Raza
- Won a CINE award for his report on suicide bombers in Israel
- Won Gabriel Award for his report on young man's journey to reunite with his birth mother after two decades
- 6-time Emmy Award winner
- Honored with World Hunger Media Award and a Citation from the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award for his report on homeless children in Bogotá
