Manuel Teodoro is an American journalist.
He was born in 1960 in
. His father is a Filipino and his mother was born in
Cartagena de Indias. Teodoro majored in
journalism
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from the
University of Miami
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and started his career in 1984 as an editorial assistant for
CBS News. Later he moved to
Univision
Univision () is an American Spanish-language free-to-air television network owned by TelevisaUnivision. It is the United States' largest provider of Spanish-language content. The network's programming is aimed at the Latino public and includes ...
as a reporter and producer and became their correspondent in the Philippines. While staying in that country, he also anchored the evening news program "Newswatch" of the
RPN television network.
After that he became the Hispanic
New York based-correspondent for
CNN
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. In 1994 he went to Colombia as correspondent for CNN and presenter of ''
Noticiero CM&
NotiCentro 1 CM& (Compañía de Medios de Información) is a Colombian ''programadora'' established in 1992. It was one of the few ''programadoras'' that survived the crisis of the late 1990s and early 2000s, doing so by creating a two-hour news bl ...
''. Two years later he moved to
Caracol TV
Caracol is a large ancient Maya archaeological site, located in what is now the Cayo District, of Belize. It is situated approximately south of Xunantunich, and the town of San Ignacio, and from the Macal River. It rests on the Vaca Plateau ...
, where he directed and hosted the ''
60 Minutes''-like ''
Séptimo día'' ("Seventh day")
newsmagazine
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, which, despite of its success, was cancelled in 2000 because of the large amount of lawsuits against the show, all of them eventually won by Caracol TV. He then returned to CM&.
In 2007 Teodoro moved back for Caracol TV to direct and co-host, with
Silvia Corzo
Silvia Milena Corzo Pinto (born October 30, 1973 in Bucaramanga, Santander) is a Colombian lawyer and presenter.
Biography
Her parents are Mario Corzo and Irene Pinto. After finishing high school, Corzo studied at the Universidad Autónoma de ...
, a new season of ''Séptimo día'', which premiered 10 June 2007.
References
External links
Manuel Teodoro (Caracol TV's ''Séptimo día'')*
ttps://web.archive.org/web/20070704035150/http://www.encolombia.com/tvynovelas1106-266untinto.htm A 2000 interview following the first cancellation of ''Séptimo día''*Bettina Teodoro
Journalists in hot spots: Manuel Teodoro ''Thunderbird Online Magazine'',
University of British Columbia
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1963 births
Living people
University of Miami School of Communication alumni
Writers from New Orleans
American male journalists
American writers of Filipino descent
American people of Colombian descent
Colombian reporters and correspondents
Colombian people of Filipino descent