NBC News And Noticias Telemundo Join Forces To Focus on Issues Facing the Hispanic Community in America
12 Aug 2020 by Sandra Bernardo in Advice, Celebrities, Event, Fame, Film, Films, General, Home, Money, Music, Pleasure, Power, Sports, Television
NBC News and Noticias Telemundo will collaborate on reports to air on both networks, starting today, it was announced by Noah Oppenheim, NBC News president and Luis Fernandez, president of Telemundo Network News.
With a focus on issues affecting the Hispanic community in America, the new series “NBC News x Noticias Telemundo Reports” launched with a joint piece on how critical testing and tracing are when it comes to preventing the kinds of outbreaks that disrupt entire industries, through the lens of agriculture and the food supply chain in California, filed by NBC News’ Gadi Schwartz and Noticias Telemundo’s Guad Venegas.
It aired in English on NBC News platforms, including Nightly News with Lester Holt, various MSNBC shows, NBC News NOW and TODAY, as part of the network’s special coverage this week, Search for Solutions: The American Economy. And the correspondents also produced a Spanish-language version of the report to air on all Noticias Telemundo newscasts at 12:30p ET, 6:30p ET and 11:35p ET. Both pieces also ran on NBC News and Telemundo digital properties.
This week, Morgan Radford and Nicole Suarez will file a joint report on the impact of remote learning on the millions of families who do not speak English as a first language, to appear on the same shows and platforms, also with English and Spanish-language versions. This report will be part of NBC News’ larger special series next week: Coronavirus and the Classroom.
This is the first time the two divisions are collaborating in this way, having partnered in the past on presidential debates and other special events. Upcoming pieces in this series will include contributions from NBC News and Noticias Telemundo’s investigative teams, and more joint reporting efforts leading up to the 2020 elections.
“We’re thrilled to formally partner with our colleagues at Telemundo in this new and meaningful way, shining a light on stories and issues that affect a significant and rapidly-growing group of Americans, and reaching them in whichever language they consume news. Only at NBC is this kind of collaboration between two great news organizations possible,” said Oppenheim.
“This exciting new collaboration with NBC News will expand our coverage of the most important issues for Hispanics in both English and Spanish at a crucial time for our community,” said Fernandez. “With the country facing a global pandemic and heading into a historic election, it’s critical we provide our viewers with information that is reliable and factual, in both languages, and above all, that we Tell it Like It Is – las cosas como son.”
Morgan Radford is a correspondent for NBC News based in New York City, appearing regularly on TODAY, NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt and MSNBC. Since joining NBC News in 2015, Radford has been on the frontlines covering the immigration debate over the U.S. southern border in addition to several of the country’s biggest national stories including the 2020 and 2016 presidential elections. Radford is fluent in Spanish and received her bachelor’s degree from Harvard University, a master’s degree from Columbia’s Graduate School of Journalism and a Fulbright Fellowship from the U.S. State Department.
Gadi Schwartz is a correspondent for NBC News and MSNBC and co-host of NBC News’ Stay Tuned on Snapchat based in Los Angeles. He has covered immigration issues along the U.S.-Mexico border, the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio and 2018 Winter Olympics in South Korea, and several natural disasters across the U.S. His reporting appears regularly across NBC News’ TODAY, NBC Nightly News and MSNBC. Schwartz was born in Guatemala City and moved to New Mexico as a child. He is fluent in Spanish and holds a degree in Arts and Science from New Mexico State University.
Nicole Suarez, with more than 10 years of experience, is an Emmy-award winning journalist and news correspondent for Noticias Telemundo.
Guadalupe ‘Guad’ Venegas is a Noticias Telemundo correspondent in California. He joined Noticias Telemundo in 2019 from the Telemundo affiliate in San Diego/Tijuana, where he anchored the “Noticias Telemundo” newscast. From 2009 to 2016, he reported for and anchored a number of programs for Telemundo, including “Al Rojo Vivo” and “Noticias Telemundo,” and collaborated with Telemundo Deportes, forming part of its coverage team at the 2012 London Olympics. He holds a degree in communications and Spanish arts and letters from San Diego State University.