Last Updated on 10/09/2024 by Arun jain
Jorge Ramos, who is among the best-known journalists in Spanish-language television, and Fidel Castro and former President Donald J. Known for questioning world leaders, including Trump, Univision will leave at the end of 2024 after 40 years at the network. .
Mr. Ramos and Univision mutually agreed not to renew his contract, which is set to expire soon, Televisa Univision, which operates Univision, said in a statement Monday. Mr. Ramos, 66, will remain with Univision through the U.S. presidential election in November, the network said.
By the end of 2024, Mr. Ramos will step down as co-anchor at “Noticiero Univision,” the network’s flagship evening news program, which Mr. Ramos has anchored for 38 years.
It is not clear what Mr. Ramos will do after leaving Univision. He said that a statement on Monday that he will soon announce his professional plans.
“This is not goodbye,” Mr. Ramos said. “I am very grateful for these four decades at Univision and very proud to be part of a team that has established strong leadership over the years.”
Mr. Ramos has been an anchor on “Noticiero Univision” since 1986, according to Univision. He has also been a host on the weekly program “El Punto” on Univision that features interviews with politicians and other cultural figures. As of 2021, Mr. Ramos has occasionally written for The New York Times Contributing opinion writer.
While at Univision, Mr. Ramos covered several major news events, including the September 11 terrorist attacks, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and Hurricane Katrina. He has worked with Fidel Castro and Hugo Chavez as well as Barack Obama, George Bush, George W. Also interviewed dozens of political leaders, including Bush and Bill Clinton.
Although Mr. Ramos has been widely known among Hispanic families living in the United States for decades, he gained the attention of a wider audience in 2015, when Mr. Trump, then a presidential candidate, He was briefly kicked out of the news conference.
Mr. Ramos was born in Mexico and moved to Los Angeles in the early 1980s, citing censorship problems at a Mexican television station. He briefly worked for Channel 34 in Los Angeles before moving to Miami to work for what is now Univision.
“I was only 28 years old,” he wrote for Univision last year. “I had never interviewed a president or covered a war, and I couldn’t understand myself in English. But Univision became my second home. I learned to question authority and learn journalism on the run.”
Mr. Ramos has won 10 Emmy Awards, as well as a Walter Cronkite Award. He has written 12 books.
“I want to express my respect and gratitude for Jorge Ramos and all he has done for Univision and the growing community we serve each and every day,” Daniel Coronel, president of news for Univision, said in a network statement. “As we look to 2025 and beyond, our talented team is well-equipped to continue the tradition of journalistic excellence that has defined Noticero Univision since its inception.”
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