Univision’s Maria Elena Salinas and Jorge Ramos Honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award

Jorge Ramos and Maria Elena Salinas
Photo courtesy: Univision

Congratulations to NAHJ Lifetime member, Maria Elena Salinas and her Univision co-anchor, Jorge Ramos for receiving the Lifetime Achievement Award from The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (NATAS). Chairman of NATAS, Malachy Wienges says, “…it’s a great pleasure to honor Jorge Ramos and Maria Elena Salinas of Univision’s nightly news broadcast, with our Lifetime Achievement Award. Their news and current affairs reporting is among the very best in any language.”  The award was presented to the co-anchors Monday night at the 33rd Annual News and Documentary Emmy Awards ceremony in New York City. 

Maria Elena posted on her Facebook page, ” So honored to receive tonight a ‘Lifetime achievement’ Emmy along with Jorge Ramos. We are the first Hispanics to receive this award.”  On her Facebook fan page, Maria Elena credits their team at Univision and loyal viewers for their Lifetime accomplishment.  Here’s more from Univision>>>

The longtime Univision co-anchors are considered some of the best journalists in the world.  Their evening newscast, Noticiero Univision averages about two million viewers a night.   Maria Elena and Jorge have covered every major story in the world including several wars, natural disasters, presidential elections, and the political arena in different foreign countries.

Their recent television news specials “Meet the Candidates” with President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney made history.  It was the first time a TV network had both candidates in a one-on-one platform.  The specials were also a ratings success, and a success at keeping Latino viewers informed.

Maria Elena had duo jobs during the Democratic National Convention.  Since ABC and Univision are now in partnership, Maria Elena and Jorge are also regular contributors to news coverage at ABC News.  Here’s the video of Maria Elena during the DNC with ABC’s Diane Sawyer.

NAHJ is very proud of Maria Elena Salinas and Jorge Ramos.  Both inspire us as journalists.  They have also proven that Spanish language media is not just important to the Latino community, but also important to everyone else.

NAHJ Board Member Honored with the Lionel C. Barrow Jr. Award

Dr. Federico Subervi

NAHJ’s Academic Officer, Dr. Federico Subervi, has been selected as the 2012 recipient of the Lionel C. Barrow Jr. Award for Distinguished Achievement in Diversity Research and Education. The award is given by the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, or AEJMC.

The award, recognizing outstanding individual accomplishment and leadership in diversity efforts for underrepresented groups by race and ethnicity in journalism and mass communication, was presented to Subervi at this year’s AEJMC conference.

Petra Guerra, a AEJMC committee member, said Subervi embodies the essence of Barrow.

“Barrow, in spite of having already retired continued to fight for equality and inclusion. His accomplishments were numerous; the creation on the Commission on the Status of Minorities and later the creation of Minorities and Communication are great examples of Barrow’s work. But he continued the struggle, even when he was ridiculed and criticized. He never stopped, what others thought of him was not an obstacle in his struggle to make sure that AEJMC was inclusive.

Looking at Federico’s work, he is the reflection of Barrow. He is tough skinned, criticisms just fly above his head. Even after many accomplishments, he established the Center for the Study of Latino Media and Markets and led research on emergency communication and mentoring of numerous students. Many of these students are now professionals in the field of journalism and mass communication. And the establishing of Latinitas Inc., the not for profit organization, is dedicated to empower Latina youth via media and technology.”

Subervi is Full Professor and Director of the Center for the Study of Latino Media & Markets at the School of Journalism and Mass Communication, Texas State University-San Marcos.  He is the editor and an author of the book The Mass Media and Latino Politics.  Studies of U.S. Media Content, Campaign Strategies and Survey Research: 1984-2004 (NY: Routledge, 2008).

Subervi has held academic appointments at the University of California-Santa Barbara, and the University of Texas at Austin (where he was also the Graduate Advisor for the Department of Radio-TV-Film).  He has been UNESCO professor at the Universidade Metodista de São Paulo, and visiting professor at Zeppelin University in Friedrichshafen, Germany, the Universidad Diego Portales in Santiago, Chile, and the University of Amsterdam.  He serves on the editorial boards for Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, Journalism & Communication Monographs, and The Howard Journal of Communications.