Zugey Lamela (born March 24, 1982) is a Puerto Rican journalist and

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. She is the anchor of the investigative news program, ''Telemundo Responde''. In 2019, Lamela won a Suncoast Emmy Award for her investigative reporting.

Education and career

Lamela completed a degree in journalism at

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. Lamela worked as a journalist at

Univision Puerto Rico WLII-DT (channel 11), branded on-air as TeleOnce, is a television station licensed to Caguas, Puerto Rico, serving the Territories of the United States#Permanently inhabited territories, U.S. territory as an affiliate of Univision and UniMás. ...

from 2004 until she dismissed in 2014. She began two days later as a television reporter at

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. She is the news anchor of the investigative news program, ''Telemundo Responde''. In May 2019, reporter Jorge Rivera Nieves joined Lamela as co-anchor of the night edition of Telenoticias PR. On March 30, 2020, the Governor of Puerto Rico,

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ended a lengthy and highly publicized interview with Lamela when she was questioned about recent staff dismissals and funding concerns at the

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Personal life

Lamela and her coworker, journalist Walter Soto León, began dating on June 21, 2014. They were engaged in

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in March 2015. Lamela and Soto León married on October 4, 2018 at the

Hotel El Convento Hotel El Convento is a small hotel in Old San Juan, Puerto Rico, in what was a Carmelite convent, adjoining the San Juan Cathedral square. The cathedral is the second-oldest cathedral in the Western Hemisphere. Hotel El Convento is the oldest me ...

. They honeymooned in

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Awards and honors

In 2019, Lamela and Millie Jiménez were nominated for the business/consumer category of the Suncoast Regional Emmy Awards for their work, "Pesadilla en el 855." She won the Suncoast Emmy Award for her reporting of "Gabinetes que Almacenan Esquema Familiar" on ''Telmundo Responde''.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Lamela, Zugey Living people Place of birth missing (living people) American investigative journalists 21st-century Puerto Rican women writers 21st-century American journalists Puerto Rican television journalists American women television journalists American television news anchors American television reporters and correspondents NBCUniversal people Univision people University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus alumni 21st-century American women 1982 births