Manuel Bojorquez Biography
Manuel Bojorquez is a national correspondent for CBS News based in Miami. He began his career as a Dallas-based CBS News correspondent in 2012 and was promoted to a national correspondent for the network’s Miami bureau in January 2017.
How old is Manuel Bojorquez? – Age
He was born in El Salvador and raised up in South Central Los Angeles.
Manuel Bojorquez Education
He received his magna cum laude degree from the University of Southern California, where he was named Outstanding Broadcast Journalism Student of the Year.
Manuel Bojorquez Wife
He is openly gay. He is married to Tyler Siesweda. The couple married in August 2012.
Manuel Bojorquez Career
He has covered major news events in Texas and the South, and he was one of the first network news correspondents on the scene of the July 2016 Dallas police ambush. Bojorquez was a member of the team that received the Edward R. Murrow Award in 2015 for a report about a tornado that devastated parts of an Arkansas town.
Bojorquez has also written extensively for CBS News from Latin America, most recently following Pope Francis’ visit to Mexico in February 2016. He has also visited Argentina, Cuba, El Salvador, and Guatemala on his travels.
He previously worked as a general assignment reporter for Atlanta’s WSB-TV. During his time there, he covered a variety of significant stories, including Tropical Storm Fay, the 2008 presidential elections, and the first Sunday service at Ebenezer Baptist Church following President Obama’s victory. He won a NATAS Southeast Emmy for Live Reporting in 2011.
Prior to joining WSB-TV, Bojorquez worked as a general assignment reporter for KNXV-TV in Phoenix, Arizona, since 2002. He won The Associated Press award for best live reporting for his coverage of the state’s wildfires in 2004 and 2005. He traveled to Mexico City in July 2006 to cover Mexico’s presidential election, and he also provided daily online articles and photo essays about the election. In the year 2000, Bojorquez began his journalism career as a general assignment reporter for KESQ-TV in Palm Springs, California.
Manuel Bojorquez Net Worth
He has an estimated of net worth of $2 million.
Manuel Bojorquez Salary
He earns an annual salary of $100 thousand.