Rick Sanchez
Host
Journalistically Speaking
Rick Sanchez has been a journalist and television news anchor for over 30 years. He has spent decades in TV news working at both the global and national level, and has reached tens of millions of viewers worldwide on CNN, Fox News, NBC, Univision and I Heart radio.
At CNN, he was the host of 'Rick’s List' and was frequently a substitute anchor for CNN’s 8 pm prime time broadcast. He’s won several Emmys, was part of three Peabody award winning teams, as well as an Alfred A. Dupont award nominee, which is among the most coveted awards in journalism. Rick anchored CNN’s Peabody Award-winning coverage of Hurricane Katrina, where he went nearly 48 hours without sleep, first anchoring from Atlanta and then flying to Louisiana where he reported live from the scene.
Throughout his career, Rick has interviewed prominent newsmakers and world leaders including Jimmy Carter, Fidel Castro, Bill Clinton, Mikhail Gorbachev and Manuel Noriega. He has reported on major events across the United States and around the world, including on-the-scene coverage of the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York. He has reported from Havana, Cuba many times and as well as from war zones in Nicaragua, Grenada and during the fall of the Jean-Claude Duvalier regime in Haiti. Rick won an Emmy for his series titled, 'When I left Cuba.'