ABC journalist 约翰醌类 to receive Carr Van Anda Award

Veteran broadcast journalist 约翰醌类 will receive the Carr Van Anda Award for his nearly 40 years as a journalist 和 anchor for ABC 新闻 during OHIO’s Carr Van Anda Symposium on the 雅典 campus on Oct. 19.

由于COVID, no public tickets are available, 然而, the award presentation 和 his keynote address will be available at 3:05 p.m. via Zoom at this link: http://bit.ly/3CvL4jP.

The award is named for former newbb电子平台 student Carr Van Anda, who was managing editor of The New York Times for 28 years from the beginning of the 20th century to the Great Depression.

“Since 1968, the faculty in the E.W. Scripps School of 新闻 have recognized the careers of well-known 和 respected journalists by honoring them with the Carr Van Anda Award,”医生说。. Eddith Dashiell, journalism school director. “John Quiñones will join more than 75 Carr Van Anda awardees such as Mike Wallace, 凯瑟琳•格雷厄姆, 和 Walter Cronkite from the 1960s 和 70s to more contemporary journalists such as Gwen Ifill, Charlayne Hunter-Gault, 还有朱迪·伍德拉夫.” 

Quiñones joined ABC 新闻 in June 1982 as a general assignment correspondent based in Miami, providing reports for “World 新闻 Tonight with Peter Jennings” 和 other ABC 新闻 broadcasts, according to his ABC 新闻 biography. He spent nearly a decade in Nicaragua, 萨尔瓦多, 危地马拉, 洪都拉斯, 和 Panama 和 was one of the few American journalists reporting from Panama City during the U.S. invasion in December 1989.

Quiñones is known to the college generation as the host of the ABC reality show “What Would You Do?15季. The show uses a hidden camera to observe how people respond to ethical dilemmas. 

His ABC 新闻 bio reports he has received seven national Emmy Awards for his “Primetime Live,” “Burning Questions” 和 “20/20” work. Quiñones was awarded an Emmy for his coverage of the Congo’s virgin rainforest, which also won the Ark Trust Wildlife Award. In 1990, he received an Emmy for “Window in the Past,” a look at the Yanomamo Indians. Quiñones received an Emmy for his work on the ABC documentary “Burning Questions — The Poisoning of America,” which aired in September 1988. He was also honored with a World Hunger Media Award 和 a Citation from the Robert F. Kennedy 新闻 Awards for “To Save the Children,” his 1990 report on the homeless children of Bogota. Other awards include First Prize in International Reporting 和 a Robert F. Kennedy Prize for his piece on “Modern Slavery — Children Sugar Cane Cutters in the Dominican Republic.” Quiñones received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Hispanic Media Coalition, a Guerra Lifetime Achievement Award from the San Antonio Association of Hispanic Journalists, 和, in 2019, 约翰·F. Hogan Distinguished Service Award from the Radio Television Digital 新闻 Association.

A proud fifth-generation Mexican American, Quiñones grew up in a barrio in San Antonio 和 shined shoes with his best friend on Guadalupe Street, where he picked up good tips from the drunks in the bars 和 cantinas, according to a “20/20” profile about him. When his father lost his job, the family picked fruit in Michigan 和 Ohio.

Before joining ABC 新闻, Quiñones was a reporter for WBBM in Chicago where he earned two Emmys for reporting about the dangerous path to America for Mexican immigrants, according to the “20/20” profile. 在那之前, according to his ABC bio, he was news editor for KTRH radio in Houston 和 anchor-reporter for KPRC TV.

Quiñones received a Bachelor of Arts in speech communications from St. Mary’s University in San Antonio. He received a master’s from the Columbia School of 新闻.

Quiñones is the father of two sons, Julian 和 Nicco, 和 a daughter, Andrea. He lives in New York with his wife, Deanna. He is the author of two books, a memoir titled “Heroes Among Us: Ordinary People 和 Extraordinary Choices” 和 “What Would You Do? Words of Wisdom About Doing The Right Thing.”