Jorge Rivera Nieves
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Jorge Rivera Nieves | |
|---|---|
| Born | January 22, 1951 |
| Occupation | Television journalist |
| Relatives | 2 daughters (Grenda, Monica) |
Jorge Rivera Nieves (born January 22, 1951) is a Puerto Rican television news anchorman.[1] He is an anchorman at Telemundo Puerto Rico's daily television news show, "Telenoticias".[2]
Rivera Nieves was born in the San Juan suburb of Río Piedras, the son of Jorge Rivera, from the southern Puerto Rican city of San Germán and of Esperanza Nieves, from Yabucoa, a city in eastern Puerto Rico.[3]
As a youth, Rivera Nieves enjoyed reading. He was elected class president during his ninth-grade year, and one of his teachers, named Eligio Armstrong, noticed Rivera Nieves had the ability to speak well in public, encouraging Rivera Nieves to try a career as a radio announcer. Rivera Nieves did his high school studies at Central High School in Santurce, another suburb of San Juan.[4]
From 1968, when Rivera Nieves was in his late teens, until 1976, he worked as an announcer at WAPA-Radio, and he was soon also working at television's canal 4 as a show host, television journalist and announcer in a number of that television channel's shows.[5]
In 1977, Junior Abrams, a sportscaster, informed Rivera Nieves that WKAQ-TV ("canal 2") was planning a news show. Both of them took auditions, and they were both hired.
Career at Telemundo
At Telemundo's television news show, "Telenoticias" (which was then known as "Telenoticias en Accion"), Rivera Nieves joined Abrams and Anibal Gonzalez Irizarry, Sylvia Gómez, Raúl Quiñones (who had also been his newscast mate at canal 4 before) and others. In 1986, Rivera Nieves was upgraded to become one of the show's anchormen, a position he has since retained.
Honors
In June 2022, Rivera Nieves was honored with two honorary degrees, by the Ana G. Méndez University and the Caribbean University.[6]