Rick Sanchez anchors the 3 p.m. to 4 p.m. edition of CNN Newsroom each weekday and serves as a contributor for CNN en Español. Based in the network's world headquarters in Atlanta and New York, Sanchez joined the network in September 2004.
Throughout his career, Sanchez has reported on major events across the United States and around the world, including on-the-scene coverage of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center towers in New York City. Sanchez has also reported in war zones in Nicaragua, the invasion of Grenada and the fall of the Jean-Claude Duvalier regime in Haiti. Additionally, Sanchez has reported live from Havana, Cuba, numerous times. In 2006, Sanchez contributed to the network’s comprehensive coverage of Hurricane Katrina that won a George Foster Peabody Award.
Sanchez has also interviewed several prominent newsmakers, including Laura Bush, Jimmy Carter, Fidel Castro, Bill Clinton, Mikhail Gorbachev and Manuel Noriega behind bars, among others.
Before joining CNN, Sanchez was an anchor for WTVJ/Channel 6 and an interim anchor for WBZL/Channel 39 in Miami. Prior to his tenure with the NBC affiliate, he worked for two years as a correspondent and anchor for MSNBC. Sanchez joined MSNBC in 2001 as a correspondent and also delivered breaking news for CNBC and filed radio updates for NBC National radio.
He also briefly worked as an anchor at KHOU-TV in Houston. Sanchez started his career as a television journalist at WSVN-TV Miami in 1982. In Miami, he became the first person to both anchor a television news program and host a talk show on Spanish-language radio, El Show de Rick Sanchez.
Sanchez's professional honors include an Emmy Award and an American Medical Association "Distinguished Journalist Award." Sanchez studied journalism at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities and played football at Moorhead State University.
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