María Elena Salinas Biography
Mara Elena Salinas is a broadcast journalist, news anchor, and author from the United States. The New York Times has dubbed Salinas the “Voice of Hispanic America.” She is one of the most well-known Hispanic female journalists in the United States.
How old is María Elena Salinas? – Age
She is 67 years old as of August 2021. She was born in 1954 in Los Angeles, California, United States.
Where are Maria Elena Salinas’s parents from? – Family
In the 1940s, Salinas’ parents immigrated to the United States from Mexico. She spent seven years of her childhood in Mexico.
Maria Elena Salina Husband
She was married to Eliott Rodriguez, who is a Cuban-American journalist. The couple married for 13 years before they divorced in 2007. Salinas has lived in Miami with her two daughters, Julia Alexandra and Gabriela Maria, since 1991.
Where did Maria Elena Salinas go to school? – Education
She studied at the University of California, Los Angeles. The University of California, Los Angeles is a land-grant research university located in Los Angeles, California. UCLA’s academic roots can be traced back to 1882 when it was founded as a teacher’s college known as the southern branch of the California State Normal School.
Maria Elena Salinas Net Worth
She has an estimated net worth of $5 Million.
How much does Maria Elena Salinas make?
She earns an annual salary of $200 thousand.
Maria Elena Salinas Scholarship
For nearly two decades, Salinas has volunteered for the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials, an organization that encourages immigrants to vote and participate in politics; she is the spokesperson for the organization’s Ya Es Hora (“It’s Time”) program.
Salinas is a founding member of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists and was inducted into the organization’s Hall of Fame in 2006. She also supports the Maria Elena Salinas Scholarship, which is awarded to college students who are interested in working in Spanish news broadcasting. She is a member of the Hispanic Scholarship Fund and the International Women’s Media Foundation’s boards of directors.
Where does Maria Elena Salinas work? – Career
Salinas began her career in 1981 as a reporter, anchor, and public affairs host for KMEX-TV, a Univision affiliate in Los Angeles. In 1987, she was named anchor of the national Spanish-language news program Noticiero Univision.
She has interviewed former US Presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, as well as former Panamanian military dictator Manuel Noriega, Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega, and Zapatista Army of National Liberation spokesman Subcomandante Marcos. She has also conducted interviews with celebrities including Jennifer Lopez, Ricky Martin, and Gloria Estefan. Salinas was one of the first female journalists in Baghdad during the war. Katie Couric, Bill Moyers, and others have interviewed her.
In 2004, Salinas took part in a bilingual national Democratic presidential candidate debate on Hispanic issues, and in 2007, she co-hosted the first Democratic and Republican presidential candidate debates in Spanish on the Univision Network.
She debuted an English-language crime show, The Real Story with Mara Elena Salinas, on Investigation Discovery in 2017. She wrote a weekly syndicated column in English and Spanish for ten years, from 2001 to 2011. On August 3, 2017, Univision announced that Salinas would step down as co-anchor of Noticiero Univisión at the end of the year. Salinas stated in a Facebook post that she plans to become an independent news producer and that she was not fired.
On July 1, 2018, she was part of Telemundo’s coverage of the Mexican presidential elections, and five months later, on December 1, she was part of Telemundo’s news team covering the Mexican presidential inauguration from Mexico City. On July 22, 2019, CBS News announced the addition of Maria Elena Salinas as a contributor. Mara Elena Salinas joined “CBS This Morning” to break down the diverse Latino communities across the United States that were long held as a single voting bloc, but economic, geographic, and cultural differences show stark divides in how Latino Americans voted in the 2020 United States presidential election.