John Quiñones
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Juan Manuel "John" Quiones (born May 23, 1952) is an ABC News reporter and current host of What Would You Do?
Early life and education
Quioones was born in San Antonio, Texas, on May 23, 1952. He is a fifth-generation San Antonian and a fifth-generation Mexican-American. Quiones grew up in a Spanish-speaking household in which he didn't learn to speak English until he started learning to speak English at age six. When he was 13 years old, his father was fired from his job as a janitor at which the family joined a caravan of migrant farmworkers who travelled to Traverse City, Michigan, to harvest cherries. The Quieones family hopped tomatoes outside Toledo, Ohio, later that summer.
Quiones was chosen to enroll in the federal anti-poverty service, Upward Bound, which prepared inner-city high school students for college while attending Brackenridge High School in San Antonio. Quiones, an undergraduate, was also a member of Sigma Beta-Zeta Chi Alpha fraternity. Quiet earned a Master of Arts degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism after graduating from St. Mary's with a Bachelor of Arts degree in speech communication.
Career
Quiones served as a radio news editor at KTRH in Houston, Texas, from 1975 to 1978, as well as as an anchor and reporter for KPRC-TV. He later worked for WBBM-TV in Chicago. Quiones began as a general assignment reporter with ABC News based in Miami in 1982. He was a co-anchor of ABC News' Primetime and hosted What Would You Do? In addition, he has worked on ABC News' 20/20, Good Morning America, ABC World News Tonight, and Nightline.
"Quiones told the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) supporters that he got his start because a San Antonio community group told the FCC (Federal Communications Commission) that the station would not recruit more Latinos" and contest their licenses.
Awards
- George Foster Peabody Award, 1999, ABC News, New York, New York, "ABC 2000" (also known as ABC 2000 Today.)
- ALMA Award from the National Council of La Raza.
- CINE award for his report on suicide bombers in Israel.
- Gabriel Award.
- 7-time Emmy Award winner.
- World Hunger Media Award and a Citation from the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award.
- Pigasus Award, 2005, ABC's Primetime Live, for its credulous "John of God " special, about Brazilian "psychic surgeon" João Teixeira
- National Hispanic Media Coalition's Lifetime Achievement Award, 2016.