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Edna Schmidt during a 2014 Univision interview.
Edna Schmidt during a 2014 Univision interview.

Former Univision and Telemundo anchor Edna Schmidt dies at 51

June 27, 2021 by Veronica Villafañe

Edna Schmidt has died. She was 51.

Despite numerous posts by friends and colleagues on social media, there is currently no official cause of death. But multiple posts and reports indicate she died in Puerto Rico.

Schmidt was the founding co-anchor of Univision Chicago’s newscast. She worked in the Windy City 10 years before stepping up to Univision network, where she would become weekend anchor and later, move to the late weeknight newscast.

Univision fired her in 2011. She spent two years off the air until Telemundo Chicago hired her as an anchor but she was terminated just three months later.

In October 2014, she publicly spoke about her struggle with alcoholism, which cut her journalism career short, in a Univision Chicago news special. She also went on Univision network’s “Despierta América” to share her story and bring awareness about the difficulty in admitting and treating alcohol addiction.

Shortly after, Schmidt sued Telemundo for wrongful termination.

Earlier this year, in an interview streamed on former Univision network co-worker Neida Sandoval’s YouTube channel, Schmidt spoke about her alcoholism and her last newscast. Sandoval removed it from the platform. In a Facebook message, she said she did so at Schmidt’s request, days prior to her death, because she felt she didn’t look her best in that interview.

According to Sandoval, Schmidt expressed a desire to return to work.

Neida Sandoval Edna Facebook post June 25 2021

Filed Under: People Tagged With: Edna Schmidt

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  1. Youtube Usuarios says

    June 30, 2021 at 7:40 AM

    Enntrevista ? eso fue lo mas humillante jamas hecho de “colega” a colega.
    She knows it. We all know 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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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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