Enrique Acevedo Biography
Enrique Acevedo is a correspondent for the new 60 Minutes Plus program. He is 60 Minutes’ first Latino correspondent in the show’s 53-year history.
How old is Enrique Acevedo? – Age
He is 43 years old as of 6 March 2021. He was born in 1978 in Mexico City, Mexico.
Enrique Acevedo Education
Acevedo graduated from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism with a master’s degree in journalism. In 2019, he was a Pritzker Fellow at the University of Chicago’s Institute of Politics.
Enrique Acevedo Wife
In San Miguel de Allende, he married Florentina Romo, an Instagram model, on November 29, 2014.
Enrique Acevedo Univision
Prior to joining CBS News, Acevedo was the late-night anchor of Noticiero Univision and a special correspondent for Univision’s news division. Acevedo was a Miami-based anchor and senior correspondent for Telemundo Network News before joining Univision.
Enrique Acevedo Career
Acevedo has covered major news stories in English and Spanish for print, broadcast, and online media around the world, including the COVID-19 pandemic’s toll on the US-Mexico border, three US presidential elections, the 2012 earthquake and tsunami in Japan, the humanitarian crisis in Haiti, the AIDS epidemic in Africa, and the Latin American drug wars. Acevedo has interviewed a number of world leaders, including President Barack Obama, Kofi Annan, Melinda Gates, and Desmond Tutu.
Since joining 60 Minutes+, which is available on Paramount+, Acevedo has provided viewers with an intimate portrait of global music star J Balvin as well as a profile of a hotel on the southern U.S. border that once catered to Mexico’s elite but now serves as a refuge for immigrants making the journey to enter the United States. The Huffington Post named Acevedo one of the “Top Latinos in American Newsrooms,” and the World Economic Forum named her a “Global Media Leader.” He is a frequent guest on NPR’s “Here and Now” as well as some of Latin America’s most popular radio shows.
His columns have appeared in prestigious publications such as The New York Times, The Washington Post, El Pas, Reforma, and Letras Libres. He appears on major U.S. news networks on a regular basis as an expert on Hispanics, politics, and policy. He received the News Literacy Project’s John S. Carroll Journalist Fellow Award for 2019 for his contributions to public interest journalism and news literacy. He is also one of the youngest recipients of Mexico’s press club’s national journalism prize.
Enrique Acevedo Salary
Enrique earns an annual salary of $200 thousand.
Enrique Acevedo Net Worth
He has an estimated net worth of $5 million.