Jorge ramos author biography outlines
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For decades, his voice was omnipresent in Latino households. Two million people tuned in to Univision every night to watch the man with silver hair and pale-green eyes deliver the headlines in a clear, level tone. If war broke out in Latin amerika or a leader was deposed, if inflation soared in the United States or deportations went up, he would be on the story. The news, he’d säga, needed to go out on time or it would rötter. Poll after poll ranked him among the most influential Latinos in the United States; during his thirty-eight years as an anchor at Univision, the network’s standing came to rival that of the Catholic Church. He drew comparisons to both the avuncular American broadcaster Walter Cronkite and the combative Italian reporter Oriana Fallaci, but his audience saw him most importantly as a fellow-immigrant—someone who, like them, was working to decode the mores of his adopted home. He embodied the power of a community that, in four decades, has grown from fifteen million p
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Ramos’s daughter, Paola, who recently earned a degree from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, has a job on the Hillary Clinton campaign. She previously worked in the Obama White House, and for Jill Biden. Ramos insists that his daughter’s employment does not influence his work. His Republican critics don’t buy it. He did not disclose her work for the Obama Administration to his audience. He did disclose her position with the Clinton campaign. He may have to recuse himself from any Univision-sponsored campaign debates that include Hillary Clinton.
“I’m not beached. I just don’t swim on Saturdays.”
Univision, though obscure to most non-Spanish speakers, plays in the big leagues. In 2013 and 2014, for what are known as the July prime-time sweeps, its audience was larger than that of each of the four main English-language networks. Its original programming is sold throughout the Spanish-speaking world. (The U.S. now has more Spanish speakers than Spain does.) Its local stat
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Ramos, Jorge: 1958—: Journalist, Author
A powerful influence on Latinos and a star news anchor and reporter, Jorge Ramos is Spanish-language television's most durable personality. In his reporting, television appearances and debates, and freelance writing, Ramos molds opinion concerning the perils of immigrating to the United States and the importance to Americans of the growing bilingual Hispanic minority. Familiar to fans of Spanish-language evening news in Texas, California, and Florida, he nets top ratings and viewer loyalty for incisive news from Latin America and for hard-edged interviews with prime figures from politics, current events, and the arts. His two decades of on-camera work have been about more than the delivery of information: to Ramos, telecasting is a mission, a vehicle for social change.
Homeland Versus Aspirations
Born in Mexico City on March 16, 1958, Ramos loved athletics in boyhood and enjoyed track and field with a Mexican team until a back injury en