Guillermo Ortega Ruiz (born February 15, 1955 in

Mexico City Mexico City ( es, link=no, Ciudad de México, ; abbr.: CDMX; Nahuatl: ''Altepetl Mexico'') is the capital city, capital and primate city, largest city of Mexico, and the List of North American cities by population, most populous city in North Amer ...

) is a Mexican journalist. He was

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Nightly News Anchor.

Biography

Son of Benjamin Ortega Hernandez also a journalist and Guillermina Ruiz Marcos. He studied journalism at the School of Journalism Carlos Septién Garcia.

Career

He began working for

on June 16, 1976 at the age of 21, starting as a reporter at the News 24 Hours from 1976 to 1981. He participated as a correspondent in the

Salvadoran Civil War The Salvadoran Civil War ( es, guerra civil de El Salvador) was a twelve year period of civil war in El Salvador that was fought between the government of El Salvador and the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front The Farabundo Ma ...

. He Covered state visits of Presidents of Mexico to different parts of the world, from

José López Portillo José Guillermo Abel López Portillo y Pacheco (; 16 June 1920 – 17 February 2004) was a Mexican writer, lawyer and politician affiliated with the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) who served as the 58th president of Mexico from 1976 t ...

Vicente Fox Vicente Fox Quesada (; born 2 July 1942) is a Mexican businessman and politician who served as the 62nd president of Mexico from 1 December 2000 to 30 November 2006. After campaigning as a right-wing populist, Fox was elected president on the ...

. He narrated the visits of the

Pope John Paul II Pope John Paul II ( la, Ioannes Paulus II; it, Giovanni Paolo II; pl, Jan Paweł II; born Karol Józef Wojtyła ; 18 May 19202 April 2005) was the head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 1978 until his ...

, Summer Olympic Games and Space Missions, as well as witnessed and reported unrest and conflicts in various countries and covered presidential campaigns. As TV host he has been in the following shows: *Televisa **1978: ''24 Horas'' - in substitution of Jacobo Zabludovsky **1981-1984: ''En Contacto Directo'' - Host and Director - Channel 5 **1984-1986: ''Notivisa'' - Host and Director - Canal 5 **1987-1988: ''Hoy Mismo'' - Host - Channel 2 **1988-1998: ''Eco'' - Host - vía satellite to all the Americas and Europe **1992-1998: ''Al Despertar'' - Host and Director - Channel 2 **1998-2000: ''El Noticiero con Guillermo Ortega'' - Channel 2 **1999-2000: ''En la Radio'' - XEQ *

MVS Comunicaciones MVS Comunicaciones (MVS) is a Mexican media conglomerate. The company owns MASTV, MVS Radio operator of four national radio networks, MVS Televisión operator and distributor of seven pay television networks, E-Go wireless broadband internet an ...

**2000-2003 ''MVS Noticias'' - MVS Radio From 1998 to 2000 he was anchor of the nightly news emission in "El Canal de las Estrellas" (Channel 2) of Televisa, entitled ''El Noticiero with Guillermo Ortega'', in place of 24 hours, with

Jacobo Zabludovsky Jacobo Zabludovsky Kraveski (May 24, 1928 – July 2, 2015) was a Mexican journalist. He was the first anchorman in Mexican television and his TV news program, ''24 Horas'' (''24 Hours'') was for decades regarded as the most important in the cou ...

. In 2000 he left Televisa and was replaced with

Joaquín López-Dóriga Joaquín López-Dóriga Velandia (born 8 February 1947) is a Spanish Mexican journalist. He started working as a journalist for the daily ''El Heraldo de México'' at the age of 18, and two years later he joined Jacobo Zabludovsky in the televisi ...

. In 2001 he became the newspaper's editorial columnist of

La Crónica de Hoy ''La Crónica de Hoy'' is a Mexican newspaper published in Mexico City. The newspaper was launched in 1996 by its founder, Pablo Hiriart. ''La Crónica de Hoy'' has been directed by journalist Guillermo Ortega Ruiz since 2007. See also * List of ...

. In 2007 he was appointed General Director of the newspaper.

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