Patricia Janiot

Ángela Patricia Janiot Martirena (Bucaramanga, Colombia, October 2, 1957) is a Colombian-Argentine journalist, former beauty queen and former model. She worked for CNN en Español from 1992 to 2017 and as an anchor and senior correspondent for Univision News from 2018 to 2022.

Career

National Beauty Contest

Before joining journalism, Janiot dabbled in modeling, thanks to which she received the proposal to represent her department as Miss Santander at the National Beauty Contest in 1983. On the day of the election of Miss Colombia, she crowned herself as Miss Colombia Mundo, who at that time was the viceroy of the contest and representative of Colombia to Miss World. She traveled to London as the representative of Colombia to Miss World, in 1984, she was among the 15 finalists.

Foray into Television

CNN in Spanish (1992-2017)

He began his career in 1987 on Colombian television, presenting the Noticiero Cripton and in 1990 he joined the US network Univisión. On January 27, 1992, she was accepted as a news anchor for the CNN channel on Noticiero CNN Internacional , Las Noticias and Noticias México and CNN Radio in Spanish .

Since its founding in 1997, she was the main anchor of CNN en Español and advisor to the network's senior vice president (Cynthia Hudson). In that role, she interviewed former Colombian president Iván Duque. She Presented the programs World Panorama , Our World and Patricia Janiot Presents . On November 6, 2017, she announced her withdrawal from the television network for new projects, remaining on screen until November 17 of the same year.

Univision (2018-2022)

After her departure from CNN en Español, on November 20, 2017, the Hispanic network Univisión confirmed the incorporation of Patricia Janiot to Noticiero Univisión as of January 2018, likewise it was confirmed that she will host the program "Here and Now".

After presenting the nightly newscast on September 9, 2022, of which she is the host, she announced her departure from the news network, citing personal reasons and with the advent of imminent personnel cuts in the network, for which ended a 35-year stint presenting newscasts in the United States, suggesting an eventual return to his native country.

Private life

His father, Roberto Pablo Janiot, is an Argentine former soccer player of French descent, his mother Zunilda Elvizzi Martirena is also from Argentina, from the city of Buenos Aires, also having Italian ancestry on her part. Patricia married the Argentine architect Miguel Yelós San Martín in 1990, with whom she had two children: Tábatha and Tadeo.

In her early years, Patricia participated as a beauty queen and model, studied Social Communication at the University of La Sabana in Bogotá, and has a degree in English from the University of Cambridge.

Awards

• She was nominated for the Emmy Award. In 2014, Global Panorama presented at CNN.
• She was named to the Hispanic Media 100an annual recognition of the most influential Hispanic journalists and news executives in the United States.

She is the president of the "Colombianitos" foundation.

Hedges

He has traveled throughout Latin America to report on important events, including presidential elections in Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Honduras, Mexico, Peru, and Venezuela. He was also in the Gaza Strip and Israel covering the elections won by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. He has reported on several of Pope John Paul II's tours to Latin America and also on the Ibero-American Summits of presidents and heads of state. He has interviewed most of the Latin American rulers. More recently he was in Kuwait from where he covered the war in Iraq, in New York covering the terrorist attacks against the twin towers. Among his interviewees are: Fidel Castro, Augusto Pinochet whose death he also covered from the CNN World Center in Atlanta, Colin Powell and Bill Clinton.

In Paraguay, he covered the political crisis that precipitated the resignation of President Raúl Cubas.

He followed the trip of US President Bill Clinton to Colombia. He has presented live from Atlanta the development of events such as the attacks of September 11, the war against terrorism, the US presidential elections, the crisis of the hostages in Peru, the funeral of Princess Diana and the war actions in Kosovo, and the recall referendum in Venezuela in 2004.

Among the events covered by Janiot, there are the Republican and Democratic conventions, where candidates John McCain and Barack Obama debated, and he has covered various electoral processes in the United States, such as the 2000 presidential election between George W. Bush and Al Gore, the 2004 between George W. Bush himself and John Kerry, and the 2008 presidential election, which brought Obama to the presidency, among other issues.