Enrique Acevedo (born March 6, 1978) is a Mexican journalist who currently anchors the flagship ''En punto'' the nightly newscast for

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since 2023. He previously served as correspondent for '' CBS News'' where he reported across multiple broadcasts and platforms. At CBS he has covered a wide range of topics including the 2020 Presidential Election, the U.S. troop withdrawal from Afghanistan, and the violence against journalists in Mexico. He was an Emmy award-winning correspondent on the '' 60 Minutes'' program 60 MINUTES Plus. He is the first Latino correspondent in the 54-year history of 60 Minutes. Throughout his career, Enrique Acevedo has covered the most important news around the world, with a focus on raising the voices of vulnerable communities. Committed to delivering news to a wide audience, he has turned his skills to print, broadcast and digital media, and co-wrote and co-produced 30 Segundos, a documentary about young Latino voters and the 2016 US presidential election. . He sits on the board of directors of the News Literacy Project, a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization that works with educators and journalists to give students the skills they need to discern fact from fiction and to know what content to trust.

Education

Acevedo has a master's degree in journalism from

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. He was a Pritzker Fellow at the

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Institute of Politics in 2019.

Career

Acevedo has covered the news around the world including Fidel Castro's funeral in Cuba, the

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in Japan, the humanitarian crisis in Haiti, and the drug wars in Mexico and Latin America. During the 2016 presidential cycle, he co-moderated

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's Democratic Debate and led the network's electoral coverage alongside

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and Jorge Ramos. He has interviewed President

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; philanthropist

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; and

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winners

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, Desmond Tutu,

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, and

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. During his almost 10 years as the anchor of Noticiero Univision Edición Nocturna, the newscast became one of the most-watched Spanish-language broadcasts in the U.S. His work has been published in ''

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'', ''

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'' , ''

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'', '' Reforma'', ''

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'', ''

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'', Fusion'' and ''The New York Review of Magazines''. ''He is a frequent contributor on

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's ''Here and Now''. He co-wrote and co-produced the documentary ''30 Segundos'' about young Latino voters and the

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Recognitions and studies

His work in Japan was featured as part of the Journalism School's centennial celebration in a book commemorating the best 100 stories in the last century. He's the recipient of a News & Documentary Emmy Award in the Outstanding Newscast or News Magazine category. In 2019 he was the recipient of the News Literacy Project’s John S. Carroll Journalist of the Year Award for his contributions to News Literacy and identifying bias in news. He's also been awarded the National Journalism prize by Mexico's Press Club on two occasions He's been recognized as one of the "Top Latinos in American Newsrooms," by the Huffington Post and a "Global Media Leader" by the World Economic Forum .

Personal life

On November 29, 2014, he married Florentina Romo in

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References

External links

Global Media Leaders-World Economic Forum

Contributors-ABC/Univision

Revista Letras Libres

Opinión-Univision Noticias

Opinión-La Razón

Immigration Shows How Politics Drive Policy

Mexico’s future starts with rule of law and education reform

Enrique Acevedo Tapped as Univision Late Evening News Anchor – TV Newser

Univision Noticias Edicion Nocturna outperforms all ABC,CBS and NBC Late-Night Shows – TV by the Numbers

NPR Here and Now
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