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Fanjul leaves WPEC

Posted on 02 April 2013. Tags: , ,

Juan Carlos FanjulJuan Carlos Fanjul has left WPEC, where he was weekend anchor and reporter for CBS12 News in West Palm Beach.  His last day on the air was this past Sunday.

“Management was very kind to offer a new contract, but after 5 years, it was time for a change. I am currently looking at some new and very exciting opportunities,” he wrote on his Facebook page today.

When Juan Carlos joined CBS 12 in January of 2008, he started out as a weeknight anchor/reporter, but was moved to mornings and last year, to weekends during a newsroom shake-up at the station.

Prior to WPEC, Juan Carlos spent 6 years at WGN-TV in Chicago, where he was a reporter/substitute anchor and host of “Adelante Chicago,” the station’s weekly Latino issues program.

Before WGN, he worked as a reporter/substitute anchor at WSVN-TV in Miami. He previously reported for WPBF-TV and WPTV-TV in West Palm Beach. He began his career at WHBF-TV in Rock Island, IL.

 

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I'm an Emmy award-winning journalist, who's worked as an on-air reporter in Spanish and English-language television news. I've worked for Univision, Telemundo, CNN en Español and Los Angeles Fox and UPN stations before diving into a convergence model at the San Jose Mercury News. I was president of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists from 2004 to 2006, and inducted into the Hall of Fame in August of 2016. As an online news manager, I was West Coast Web Editor for impreMedia and Managing Editor of IntersectionsSouthLA.org. In addition to running Media Moves, which I founded in June of 2007, I'm a regular contributor to Forbes and also do freelance work as writer, reporter and producer.
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