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Univision promotes Cifuentes to Regional News Director

August 21, 2017 by Veronica Villafañe

Giancarlo CifuentesGianncarlo Cifuentes is being promoted from News Director at Univision’s WUVG 34 to Regional News Director, overseeing news departments in Atlanta, Raleigh and Philadelphia.

The promotion is effective September 1.

Kevin Booker, Operations Director for North Carolina and José Irizarry, News Director at WUVP 65 Philadelphia will report to Cifuentes, who will continue to be based in Atlanta.

Cifuentes has been with Univision for 15 years, first joining the company as a promotions producer for KUVN 23 Dallas in 2002. He moved to Atlanta two years later for a job as reporter and anchor for the station. He became WUVG 34 News Director in 2011.

Prior to Univision, he worked for CNN en Español in New York, and later transferred to its headquarters in Atlanta.

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Filed Under: People, TV & Radio Tagged With: Giancarlo Cifuentes, Univision Atlanta, WUVG

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  1. Gavin says

    August 21, 2017 at 7:49 AM

    Finally!!! Cifuentes will bring hope and change to Univision in Raleigh. And fix our news department.

  2. Isaac no Lee says

    August 21, 2017 at 3:36 PM

    Gavin… the univision boat is sinking and.the captain was the first.to jump from it

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Emmy award-winning journalist and former president of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists (NAHJ). Currently a reporter for Voice of America, she 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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