Jorge Ramos will receive the NAB Distinguished Service Award

Ramos is one of the leading journalists on American television, becoming one of the most recognized and respected figures on Hispanic television.

The National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) will present journalist Jorge Ramos with its Distinguished Service Award during NAB 2014, in Las Vegas. Ramos, known for his work at Univision and now Fusion, will collect the award on April 7, during the opening session, sponsored by Blackmagic Design.

The president of the NAB, Gordon Smith, has highlighted that "for almost 30 years, Jorge Ramos is one of the leading journalists on American television, becoming one of the most recognized and respected figures in Hispanic television. In honor of his contributions to broadcasting, we are delighted to grant him this recognition."

In previous editions, the Distinguished Service award at NAB has been collected by Bob Schieffer, Michael J. Fox, Mary Tyler Moore, Ronald Reagan, Edward R. Murrow, Bob Hope, Walter Cronkite, Oprah Winfrey and Charles Osgood, among others.

Ramos is considered one of “the 25 most influential Hispanics in the United States” (Time magazine). Newsweek included him on its list of 50 politicians and communicators in the country. A survey by the Pew Hispanic Center determined that Ramos is the second most recognized Latino leader in North America. Latino Leaders magazine says he is one of “the 10 most admired Latinos in the United States” and one of the “101 leaders of the Hispanic community.”

Since November 3, 1986, he has hosted the Univision Newscast in the United States, the one with the greatest impact on the Hispanic community in the United States, and since 2007, the weekly program, To the point, where he interviews the political figures of the moment and analyzes the news of the week.

Ramos has covered five wars (El Salvador, the Persian Gulf, Kosovo, Afghanistan and Iraq), numerous historical events - the terrorist acts of September 11, 2001, the fall of the Berlin Wall, the end of apartheid in South Africa, the disintegration of the Soviet Union, Ibero-American summits, guerrilla movements in Chiapas and Central America, elections in almost the entire continent... - and natural disasters, including the catastrophe caused by Hurricane Katrina. Ramos has participated in several presidential debates.

He has interviewed some of the most important political and cultural figures of our times (Barack Obama, Bill and Hillary Clinton, John McCain, George W. Bush, George Bush, John Kerry, John Edwards, Al Gore, Fidel Castro, Hugo Chávez, Calderón, Fox, Zedillo, Salinas de Gortari, Subcomandante Marcos, Pastrana, Samper, Correa, Menem, Gaviria, Octavio Paz, Isabel Allende, Carlos Fuentes, Mario Vargas Llosa, Alejandro Toledo, Alan García, Lucio Gutierrez, Hipólito Mejía...).

The journalist, who has eleven books to his credit, studied Communication at the Universidad Iberoamericana (1977-1981). Already in the United States, he studied a specialized course in television and journalism at the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA) and later obtained a master's degree in international relations from the University of Miami. The University of Richmond awarded him an Honorary Doctorate in Literature in 2007.

Professionally, his life has taken many turns. He started in journalism almost by chance. He was part of a small group of students who received a journalism course at the Mexican radio stations XEW and XEX. Shortly after, he was a producer and writer for the Latin American Newscast, which linked the continent's main radio stations.

He made the move to television to work as an editor on the Antena Cinco news program and then as an investigator and reporter on the program 60 Minutos, both on the Televisa network. However, his stay on Mexican television was short. After a censorship incident, he decided to go live in the United States and arrived in the city of Los Angeles as a student in January 1983. There his North American adventure began.

He was born in Mexico City on March 16, 1958. Since 1991 he has lived in Miami. He is the eldest in a family of five siblings. He has two children.