María Elena Salinas has been busy since leaving Univision. The longest running female network anchor in the United States will now join the CBS News team as a contributor.
The award-winning journalist will contribute reports across CBS News broadcasts and platforms and will frequently appear on coverage of the run-up to the 2020 election.
CBS News President and Senior Executive Producer Susan Zirinsky made the announcement today.
Since her departure from Univision, Salinas landed her own English-language news magazine, “The Real Story with María Elena Salinas” on Investigation Discovery.
She also covered the 2018 presidential election in Mexico for Telemundo.
This news is pretty bad for Telemundo, citing that she just week ago was contributing for Telemundo Democratic Primary Debate Coverage, the 2018 Midterm Election coverage and as you mentioned the Mexican election and Obrador Inauguration. Don’t know what Telemundo will do next to get a good contributor. CBS News got a good steal.
Gavin, good for her, given.
But you make this look like both of them, Salinas and Beacon, were in for a long path. That was never the plan.
And as for analysts, the pool is full of options.
Good ones, uncovered ones, savvy ones, bilingual ones.
Is just a matter of effort or extra effort, from the executive producers in our Latino field, to find those right ones.
We tend to be lazy. And also scared pretty easy.
Who’s Beacon???
I just saw Maria Elena Salinas on CBS News this morning
I was so excited and happy to see someone from the Hispanic community on camera. I look forward to seeing and hearing from her many more times
Thanks
Susan
She is one of the best journalist out there . I’m so proud that she made a cross over . Definitely a woman with so much wittiness and determination to be with CBS news. Maria Elena , is a person who likes to transmit so much passion in her work and that reflects on screen. This is her passion and her legacy will continue ..