John Quiñones Biography
John Quiñones is an Emmy award-winning broadcaster journalist, author, and motivational speaker from the United States working at ABC News as the anchor of What Would You Do? one of the highest-rated newsmagazine franchises. During his 25-year career at ABC News, he focused widely on both shows and networks and worked as an anchor for Primetime.
How old is John Quiñones? – Age
The ABC Correspondent is 71 years old as of May 23, 2023. He was born in 1965 in San Antonio, Texas, United States.
Where did John Quinones go to high school? – Education
He studied at Brackenridge High School in San Antonio, where he was selected to take part in the federal anti-poverty program, Upward Bound, which prepared inner-city high school students for college. John attended St. Mary’s University, San Antonio. As a graduate, Quiñones was also a member of the Sigma Beta-Zeta brotherhood of Lambda Chi Alpha. Since graduating from St. Mary’s with a Bachelor’s degree in Speech Communication, Quiñones received a Master’s degree from Columbia University’s School of Journalism.
John Quinones Height
Quiñones stands at a height of 5 feet 8 inches tall.
Is John Quinones Mexican? – Family and Parents
John was born to Bruno Quiñones and Maria Quiñones as a fifth-generation San Antonian and a fifth-generation Mexican-American. He is the only brother of Rosemary Quiñones and Irma Quiñones. Quiñones grew up in a Spanish-speaking family and did not study English until he entered school at the age of 6. When he was 13 years old, his father was taken away from his job as a janitor and John’s family.
Who is John Quinones’s Wife? – Son
John has been married two times. He is married to Deanna White, a professional freelance writer, and public relations specialist. The couple married in 2010. He was previously married to a former flight attendant Nancy Loftus Quinones from April 1988 to 2009. He has three children; a daughter and two sons, Nicco Quiñones and Julian Quiñones.
John Quinones Books
♦ Set to be released 2025; My Conversation with America
♦ 2017; Doing the Right Thing in Our Ever-Changing World
♦ 2015; What Would You Do? Words of Wisdom About Doing the Right Thing
♦ 2009; Heroes Among Us: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Choices
John Quinones Career
When Quiñones was reporting the tragedy of Chilean miners in 2010, he was the first journalist out of thousands to get an exclusive interview with the first survivor (Mario Sepulveda) who spoke about their horrific ordeal. Other headline interviews feature an exclusive interview with singer/actor Marc Anthony who, for the first time, spoke about his breakup and the upcoming divorce from Jennifer Lopez.
Quiñones has thoroughly covered a religious sect in Northern Arizona that requires its young female followers to engage in polygamous marriages. Other stories include a cover-up using a hidden camera to show how hospitals conducted needless medical operations as part of a massive national insurance scam; tracked, along with a group of aspiring Mexican refugees, as they tried to cross over to the U.S. via the treacherous path known as “The Devil’s Highway;” and traveled to Israel for a CINE award-winning story on suicide.
In September 1999, Quiñones anchored the widely acclaimed ABC News special titled “Latin Beat,” reflecting on the surge of Latin talent flooding the U.S., the effect of the current demographic boom, and how it will affect the country as a whole. He was awarded the ALMA Prize by the National Council of La Raza. He also contributed to ABC News’ groundbreaking 24-hour, live, worldwide Millennium coverage, which received the George Foster Peabody Award.
Quiñones’ 20/20′ coverage featured an in-depth look at the historic case against the Cuban government by a woman who said she had unknowingly married a spy, and an exclusive interview with a Florida teenager who fatally murdered her adoptive mother. He was awarded with the Gabriel Award for his touching article that accompanied a young man to Colombia on an emotional quest to reunite with his birth mother after two decades.Other Central American stories include political and economic turmoil in Argentina and civil war in El Salvador. In the 1980s, he spent almost a decade working on “World News Tonight” in Nicaragua, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Panama.
Quiñones received seven Emmy Awards for his “Primetime Live,” “Burning Questions” and “20/20′′ jobs. He was awarded Emmy for his coverage of the Congo’s virgin rainforest, which also received the Ark Trust Wildlife Prize, and in 1990 he was awarded Emmy for ‘Window in the Past,’ a look at the Yanomamo Indians. He was awarded the National Emmy Award for his work on the ABC series “Burning Questions-The Poisoning of America,” which aired in September 1988, and was also honored with the Global Hunger Media Award and the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award for “Saving Children,” his 1990 article on abandoned children in Bogota.
Among his other notable honors is the First Prize in Foreign Reporting and the Robert F. Kennedy Prize for his work “Modern Slavery—Sugar Children’s Cane Cutters in the Dominican Republic.”
Quiñones joined ABC News in June 1982 as a general assignment reporter based in Miami, reporting on “World News Tonight with Peter Jennings” and other ABC News broadcasts. He was one of the first American journalists to broadcast from Panama City after the U.S. invasion of December 1989. He was a reporter for WBBM-TV in Chicago before joining ABC News. He received two Emmy Awards for reporting on the plight of illegal immigrants from Mexico in 1980. He was a news editor at KTRH Radio in Houston, Texas, from 1975 to 1978. He was also an anchor reporter for KPRC-TV during that time.
How much is John Quinones worth? – Net Worth
John has an estimated net worth of $2 million as of 2022