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Maldonado named Univision Chicago anchor

January 2, 2015 by Veronica Villafañe

Reporter Érika Maldonado has been promoted to prime time anchor at WGBO-66, the Univision O&O in Chicago.

She’ll be co-anchoring the 5 and 10 pm newscasts Monday through Friday alongside Jorge Barbosa.

Érika replaces Angélica Atondo, who left the station in October of 2014. She has been doing fill-in anchor duties for the past few months.

A 5-time Emmy award-winner, Érika has been a reporter at WGBO for the past 10 years. She began her broadcast career in radio news in her native Venezuela.

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Filed Under: People, TV & Radio Tagged With: Erika Maldonado, Univision Chicago, WGBO

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Veronica Villafañe, Editor & Publisher

Emmy award-winning journalist and former president of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists (NAHJ), who has worked as an on-air reporter, anchor, writer and producer for Spanish and English-language TV, print and online media, including Univision, Telemundo, Fox 11 News in L.A. and the San Jose Mercury News.

Hispanic media and entertainment contributor to Forbes.

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