John Quinones Biography

Fast Facts

• Won a CINE Award for his report suicide bombers in Israel
• Won a First Prize in International Reporting and a Robert F․ Kennedy Prize for his documentary "Modern Slavery - Children Sugar Cane Cutters in the Dominican Republic․"
• Won a George Foster Peabody Award for his coverage during the ABC News 24-hour Millennium broadcast
• Graduated from St․ Mary's University with a degree in Speech Communications and earned his Master's from the Columbia School of Journalism
• Started out as a news editor for KTRH radio in Houston, Texas in 1975, during which time he also worked as an anchor and reporter for KPRC-TV
• Best known as a news correspondent and anchor of "Primetime: What Would You Do?"
• Worked as a reporter for WBBM-TV in Chicago before joining ABC News as a general assignment correspondent in 1982
• Spent a decade in various Central American countries during the 1980s, where he reported for "World News Tonight․"
• Was the first journalist to interview Mario Sepulveda, the first survivor of the Chilean miners' disaster in 2010