Jorge Ramos, Univision News Legend, to Exit at Year-End
Jorge Ramos, a news anchor who is perhaps the best-known Spanish-language TV journalist in the United States and who has grilled top politicians and covered top world events on the ground over the course of a multi-decade career, will leave his home base at Univision at the end of 2024.
The anchor hinted at new plans to come. “This is not a farewell. I will continue anchoring ‘Noticiero Univision’ until December, and afterwards I will share my professional plan,” Ramos said in a statement Monday. “I am deeply grateful for these four decades at Univision and very proud to be part of a team that has established strong leadership over the years.”
Noticias Univision, the news division of the Spanish-language network that is part of TelevisaUnivision. said that both the anchor and the company “have mutually agreed not to renew their soon-to-expire contract agreement.” Ramos will continue in his current roles until after the 2024 presidential election.
Ramos has served as co-anchor for” Noticiero Univision,:” the network’s evening newscast, since 1987, He has also hosted a Sunday public-affairs program, “Al Punto.”
“I want to express my respect and gratitude for Jorge Ramos and all he has done for Univision and the growing community we serve each and every day,” said Daniel Coronell, president of the network’s news division, in a statement. “As we look to 2025 and beyond, our talented team is well equipped to continue the tradition of journalistic excellence that has defined ‘Noticiero Univision’ since the beginning.”
Ramos has pressed for better representation of Spanish-language media when it comes to access to major U.S. politicians. He has grilled lawmakers on immigration policy — a top issue among his viewership — and saw his profile gain a different sort of traction in 2015 as he sought an interview with then-candidate Donald Trump. Trump, who had put Ramos’ cell-phone number on social media, famously had Ramos pushed out of a room during a press conference in Iowa, and then allowed the journalist to return.
Ramos was among the Univision news staffers who pushed back on a company decision in 2023to broadcast an interview with Trump from his Mar-A-Lago residence that raised eyebrows among Democrats and Latino advocacy organizations because it was arranged in part by the company’s business executives. Critics have asked why the Univision correspondent, Enrique Acevedo, did not challenge Trump more noticeably on camera, or point out when the former world leader made false statements on screen.
“We cannot normalize behavior that threatens democracy and the Hispanic community, or offer Trump an open microphone to broadcast his falsehoods and conspiracy theories. We must question and fact-check everything he says and does,” said Ramos in a weekly media column he has written for years . “That’s why it is very dangerous to fail to confront Trump. And that’s why it is our moral obligation to confront him every time there’s a journalistic opportunity to do it. But I understand that not everyone agrees, and I open the debate here.”
TelevisaUnivision CEO Wade Davis defended the interview, noting in 2023 that segment with the former president marked the first time Univision had a current or former Republican president on its air in 22 years. “Univision’s news strategy is one that is non-partisan and objective, and we serve our audience by being welcoming of competing issues, ideas, candidates and parties,” he said at the time. “We are here to serve our audience, not any political party, any one candidate or partisan groups.”
Over the course of his career, Ramos has challenged power when he felt it was getting in the way of facts being disseminated to his audience. In 1983, in the early part of his journalistic tenure, he quit a job working on a newsmagazine for a Grupo Televisa station after he believed a report of his was being censored.
The anchor hinted at new plans to come. “This is not a farewell. I will continue anchoring ‘Noticiero Univision’ until December, and afterwards I will share my professional plan,” Ramos said in a statement Monday. “I am deeply grateful for these four decades at Univision and very proud to be part of a team that has established strong leadership over the years.”
Noticias Univision, the news division of the Spanish-language network that is part of TelevisaUnivision. said that both the anchor and the company “have mutually agreed not to renew their soon-to-expire contract agreement.” Ramos will continue in his current roles until after the 2024 presidential election.
Ramos has served as co-anchor for” Noticiero Univision,:” the network’s evening newscast, since 1987, He has also hosted a Sunday public-affairs program, “Al Punto.”
“I want to express my respect and gratitude for Jorge Ramos and all he has done for Univision and the growing community we serve each and every day,” said Daniel Coronell, president of the network’s news division, in a statement. “As we look to 2025 and beyond, our talented team is well equipped to continue the tradition of journalistic excellence that has defined ‘Noticiero Univision’ since the beginning.”
Ramos has pressed for better representation of Spanish-language media when it comes to access to major U.S. politicians. He has grilled lawmakers on immigration policy — a top issue among his viewership — and saw his profile gain a different sort of traction in 2015 as he sought an interview with then-candidate Donald Trump. Trump, who had put Ramos’ cell-phone number on social media, famously had Ramos pushed out of a room during a press conference in Iowa, and then allowed the journalist to return.
Ramos was among the Univision news staffers who pushed back on a company decision in 2023to broadcast an interview with Trump from his Mar-A-Lago residence that raised eyebrows among Democrats and Latino advocacy organizations because it was arranged in part by the company’s business executives. Critics have asked why the Univision correspondent, Enrique Acevedo, did not challenge Trump more noticeably on camera, or point out when the former world leader made false statements on screen.
“We cannot normalize behavior that threatens democracy and the Hispanic community, or offer Trump an open microphone to broadcast his falsehoods and conspiracy theories. We must question and fact-check everything he says and does,” said Ramos in a weekly media column he has written for years . “That’s why it is very dangerous to fail to confront Trump. And that’s why it is our moral obligation to confront him every time there’s a journalistic opportunity to do it. But I understand that not everyone agrees, and I open the debate here.”
TelevisaUnivision CEO Wade Davis defended the interview, noting in 2023 that segment with the former president marked the first time Univision had a current or former Republican president on its air in 22 years. “Univision’s news strategy is one that is non-partisan and objective, and we serve our audience by being welcoming of competing issues, ideas, candidates and parties,” he said at the time. “We are here to serve our audience, not any political party, any one candidate or partisan groups.”
Over the course of his career, Ramos has challenged power when he felt it was getting in the way of facts being disseminated to his audience. In 1983, in the early part of his journalistic tenure, he quit a job working on a newsmagazine for a Grupo Televisa station after he believed a report of his was being censored.