Enrique Acevedo

Enrique Acevedo (born March 6, 1978) is a Mexican journalist who anchors Televisa's flagship newscast En punto since 2023. He previously served as correspondent for CBS News where he reported across multiple broadcasts and platforms on a wide range of topics including the 2020 Presidential Election, the U.S. troop withdrawal from Afghanistan, and the violence against journalists in Mexico. In 2020 he became the first Latino correspondent in the history of the 60 Minutes franchise, working for 60 Minutes Plus.
Throughout his career, Enrique Acevedo has covered important news around the world, with a focus on raising the voices of vulnerable communities. Committed to delivering news to a wide audience, he has turned his skills to print, radio, broadcast and digital media, and co-wrote and co-produced 30 Segundos, a documentary about young Latino voters and the 2016 US presidential election.
He sits on the board of directors of the News Literacy Project, a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization that works with educators and journalists to give students the skills they need to discern fact from fiction and to know what content to trust.
Education
Acevedo has a master's degree in journalism from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. He was a Pritzker Fellow at the University of Chicago Institute of Politics in 2019.
Career
Acevedo has covered the news around the world including Fidel Castro's funeral in Cuba, the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami in Japan, the humanitarian crisis in Haiti, and the drug wars in Mexico and Latin America. During the 2016 presidential cycle, he co-moderated Univision's Democratic Debate and led the network's electoral coverage alongside Maria Elena Salinas and Jorge Ramos.
He has interviewed President Barack Obama; philanthropist Melinda Gates; and Nobel Peace Prize winners Jody Williams, Desmond Tutu, Kofi Annan, and Juan Manuel Santos.
During his almost 10 years as the anchor of Noticiero Univision Edición Nocturna, the newscast became one of the most-watched Spanish-language broadcasts in the U.S. His work has been published in The New York Times, The Washington Post , El Pais, Reforma, Milenio, Letras Libres, Fusion and The New York Review of Magazines. He is a frequent contributor on NPR's Here and Now. He co-wrote and co-produced the documentary 30 Segundos about young Latino voters and the 2016 presidential election.
Recognitions and studies
His work in Japan was featured as part of the Journalism School's centennial celebration in a book commemorating the best 100 stories in the last century. He was the recipient of a News & Documentary Emmy Award in the Outstanding Newscast or News Magazine category. In 2019 he was the recipient of the News Literacy Project's John S. Carroll Journalist of the Year Award for his contributions to News Literacy and identifying bias in news. He has also been awarded the National Journalism prize by Mexico's Press Club on two occasions.
He has been recognized as one of the "Top Latinos in American Newsrooms," by the Huffington Post and a "Global Media Leader" by the World Economic Forum.
Personal life
On November 29, 2014, he married Florentina Romo in San Miguel de Allende.
References
External links
Global Media Leaders-World Economic Forum
Contributors-ABC/Univision
Opinión-El Pais
Revista Letras Libres
Opinión-Univision Noticias
Opinión-La Razón
Immigration Shows How Politics Drive Policy
Mexico's future starts with rule of law and education reform
Enrique Acevedo Tapped as Univision Late Evening News Anchor – TV Newser
Univision Noticias Edicion Nocturna outperforms all ABC,CBS and NBC Late-Night Shows – TV by the Numbers
Huffington Post
NPR Here and Now
1978 births
Living people
21st-century Mexican journalists
Mexican journalists
Mexican male journalists
Mexican news anchors
Journalists from Mexico City
Mexican expatriates in the United States
60 Minutes correspondents
CBS News people