Jan 16, 2025
John Quiñones is an ABC News correspondent who reports across "20/20," "Nightline" and "Good Morning America." During his 40-year tenure at ABC News, he has reported extensively for all programs and platforms and served as anchor of "What Would You Do?" and "Primetime."
This discussion focused primarily on his work on "What Would You Do?," which just began its 17th Season on ABC.
Podcast Highlights:
Quiñones has won seven national Emmy® Awards for his work on
"Primetime Live," "Burning Questions" and "20/20." He received an
Emmy for his coverage of the Congo's virgin rainforest, which also
won the Ark Trust Wildlife Award. In 1990, he received an Emmy for
"Window in the Past," a look at the Yanomami Tribe. He received a
National Emmy Award for his work on the ABC documentary "Burning
Questions: The Poisoning of America," which aired in September
1988.
In 2024, John was honored with the Distinguished Journalist Award
presented by DePaul University's Center for Journalism Integrity &
Excellence and became a member of the NATAS Silver Circle. In 2022,
Quiñones received the Lifetime Achievement Award from MALDEF
(Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund), the
country's oldest and most prominent Latino civil rights
organization; was named a "Fellow of the Society" by the Society of
Professional Journalists; and received the President's Award for
Journalism Excellence from the National Association of Hispanic
Journalists. In 2021, Quiñones received the Carr Van Anda Award for
his "enduring contributions to journalism" from the E.W. Scripps
School of Journalism at Ohio University, as well as the "Inspire:
Visionary Leadership Award" from the Anne Frank School in San
Antonio for "What Would You Do?" scenarios that shined a light on
antisemitism in the United States. In 2019, he received RTDNA's
John F. Hogan Award for national and international reporting.
Quiñones was also honored with a World Hunger Media Award and a
citation from the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Awards for "To Save
the Children," his 1990 report on the homeless children of Bogota.
Among his other prestigious awards are the First Prize in
International Reporting and the Robert F. Kennedy Prize for his
piece on "Modern Slavery — Children Sugar Cane Cutters in the
Dominican Republic."
Quiñones joined ABC News in June 1982 as a general assignment
correspondent based in Miami, providing reports for "World News
Tonight with Peter Jennings" and other ABC News broadcasts. He was
one of the few American journalists reporting from Panama City
during the U.S. invasion in December 1989.
Before joining ABC News, he was a reporter with WBBM-TV in Chicago.
He won two Emmy Awards for his 1980 reporting on the plight of
migrants from Mexico. From 1975 to 1978, he was a news editor at
KTRH radio in Houston, Texas. During that period, he also was an
anchor/reporter for KPRC-TV.
Quiñones received a Bachelor of Arts in speech communications from
St. Mary's University, San Antonio, Texas. He received a master's
from the Columbia School of Journalism. Quiñones received two
honorary degrees: In 2016, he received an Honorary Doctorate of
Humane Letters from Utah Valley University and, in 2014, a Doctor
of Letters from Davis & Elkins College.
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