Carl Quintanilla (born September 10, 1970) is an American journalist and co-anchor and anchor, respectively, of ''

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'' and ''

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'', morning programs on

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Early life and education

Quintanilla was born in

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. He wanted to be a

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when he was younger. As a high school student, he interned at Westword Magazine in

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. Quintanilla attended the

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, where in 1993 he received a

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degree in

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. From 1991 to 1993, he was a reporter and columnist for the ''

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'' in Boulder. He spent a summer as an editorial assistant for

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Career

From 1994 to 1999, Quintanilla served as a staff reporter for ''

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'' where he wrote full-time for the newspaper's

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bureau, covering

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, manufacturing and economic issues. He also wrote a weekly column on workplace issues and on-the-job trends for the newspaper's front page. From 1999 to 2002, he served as correspondent for several CNBC programs including ''Business Center'' as well as a special correspondent for '' Fox X-press'' on

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. Prior to joining NBC, Quintanilla served as co-anchor for CNBC's early-morning program, '' Wake Up Call''. Beginning December 19, 2005, Quintanilla co-anchored ''

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''. In 2007, he traveled to China to cover

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efforts in the country for CNBC's documentary ''Big Mac: Inside the McDonald's Empire''. He, along with others at CNBC were berated by

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in the aftermath of the

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for failing to predict the downturn and ask tough questions of Wall Street executives. On his show, Quintanilla had once asked

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, later known as the orchestrator of a "massive Ponzi scheme", how it felt to be a

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. From 2010 until September 2015, Quintanilla substitute-anchored weekday and weekend editions of ''

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'', covering when hosts

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and

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were on assignment or away. He also substitute co-hosted ''

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''. In July 2011, Quintanilla left ''

'' to join ''

''. In June 2014, Quintanilla joined

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as a correspondent. He presented a story on

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in January 2015. On October 28, 2015, Quintanilla was one of CNBC's moderators of the third of the 2016 Republican Party presidential debates and forums at the

. He and his CNBC co-moderators were heavily criticized for being ill-prepared and rude to the candidates.

Awards

Quintanilla won an

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, an Edward R. Murrow Award and a

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for his coverage of

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in 2005.

Personal life

Quintanilla is married to Judy Chung, a former TV producer who now works as a product manager for

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. In 2017, they purchased a new house in

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for US$3.2 million, and they have two daughters.

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