{"id":6265,"date":"2015-01-08T20:00:24","date_gmt":"2015-01-09T02:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/?p=6265"},"modified":"2015-01-08T20:11:36","modified_gmt":"2015-01-09T02:11:36","slug":"erika-maldonado-named-univision-chicago-anchor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2015\/01\/08\/erika-maldonado-named-univision-chicago-anchor\/","title":{"rendered":"Erika Maldonado named Univision Chicago anchor"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Erika<\/a>

<\/a> Erika Maldonado<\/p><\/div>\n

After 10 years as a general assignment reporter for Univision WGBO-Channel 66,<\/a> Erika Maldonado has been promoted to 5 and 10 p.m. weekday news anchor at Chicago\u2019s leading Spanish-language station.<\/p>\n

Maldonado, who has been filling in alongside 20-year veteran anchor Jorge Barbosa since Ang\u00e9lica Atondo left in October, this week was named permanent co-anchor, according to Teri Arvesu, news director of Univision Chicago.<\/p>\n

\"Jorge<\/a>

Jorge Barbosa and Erika Maldonado<\/p><\/div>\n

\u201cErika is an outstanding, award-winning journalist who has covered some of the most important stories in Chicago for the past 10 years,\u201d Arvesu said Thursday.<\/p>\n

Maldonado, 42, joined the station in 2004 from Univision Miami, where she started as an intern working for Arvesu.<\/p>\n

Born in Caracas, Venezuela, she began her broadcasting career while studying journalism at Andr\u00e9s Bello Catholic University in Caracas. She moved to the United States in 1998, earning bachelor\u2019s and master\u2019s degrees from Florida International University in Miami.<\/p>\n

Univision Chicago appears to be on a roll with Barbosa and Maldonado. In November, the station posted its best ratings ever, with the 5 p.m. weekday newscast finishing second in the market (behind only ABC-owned WLS-Channel 7<\/a>) among viewers between 25 and 54 \u2014 the demographic most valued by advertisers.<\/p>\n

\u201cI'm super happy, excited and honored!!\u201d Maldonado tweeted.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After 10 years as a general assignment reporter for Univision WGBO-Channel 66, Erika Maldonado has been promoted to 5 and 10 p.m. weekday news anchor at Chicago\u2019s leading Spanish-language station. Maldonado, who has been filling in alongside 20-year veteran anchor Jorge Barbosa since Ang\u00e9lica Atondo left in October, this week was named permanent co-anchor, according... Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6265"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6265"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6271,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6265\/revisions\/6271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}