Presentado y narrado por John Quiñones, copresentador de Primetime de la red de ABC

Hosted and narrated by ABC Network’s Primetime co-anchor John Quiñones

John Quiñones is the Emmy Award-winning co-anchor of ABC newsmagazine “PrimeTime” and has been with the network nearly 25 years. He is the sole anchor of the PrimeTime limited series, "What Would You Do?" one of the highest-rated newsmagazine franchises of recent years. During his tenure he has reported extensively for ABC News, predominantly serving as a correspondent for “PrimeTime” and “20/20.”

Quiñones' recent work includes his hidden-camera reporting for “What Would You Do?” which captures people’s reactions when confronted with dilemmas compelling them to act, or mind their own business. He has extensively covered a religious sect in Northern Arizona that forces its young female members to take part in polygamous marriages.  Other recent reports include going undercover with a hidden camera to reveal how clinics were performing unnecessary surgical procedures as part of a major nation-wide insurance scam.  He followed along with a group of would-be Mexican immigrants as they attempted to cross into the U.S. via the treacherous route known as "The Devil's Highway." And Quiñones traveled to Israel for a CINE Award-winning report about suicide bombers.

In September 1999, Quiñones anchored a critically acclaimed ABC News special called “Latin Beat,” focusing on the wave of Latin talent sweeping the U.S., the impact of the recent population explosion and how it will affect the nation as a whole. He was awarded an ALMA Award from the National Council of La Raza. Quiñones also contributed reports to ABC News’ unprecedented 24-hour, live, global Millennium broadcast, which won the George Foster Peabody Award.

His reports for “20/20” have included an in-depth look at the unprecedented lawsuit against the Cuban government by a woman who claimed she unknowingly married a spy and an exclusive interview with a Florida teenager who brutally killed her adoptive mother. Quiñones was honored with a Gabriel Award for his poignant report that followed a young man to Colombia, as he made an emotional journey to reunite with his birth mother after two decades.

Quiñones has reported on a wide range of stories originating from Central America, including the political and economic turmoil in Argentina and civil war in El Salvador. During the ‘80’s he spent nearly a decade in Nicaragua, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Panama reporting for World News Tonight.

He has won seven national Emmy Awards for his “PrimeTime Live,” “Burning Questions” and “20/20” work. He was awarded an Emmy for his coverage of the Congo’s virgin rainforest, which also won the Ark Trust Wildlife Award, and in1990 received an Emmy for “Window in the Past,” his look at the Yanomamo Indians. He received a National Emmy Award for his work on the ABC documentary “Burning Questions -- The Poisoning of America,” which aired in September 1988. Quiñones has also been honored with a World Hunger Media Award and a Citation from the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Awards for “To Save the Children,” his 1990 report on the homeless children of Bogota.  Among his other prestigious awards achieved was the First Prize in International Reporting and Robert F. Kennedy Prize for his piece on "Modern Slavery - Children Sugar Cane Cutters in the Dominican Republic."

Quiñones joined ABC News in June 1982 as a general assignment correspondent based in Miami, providing reports for “World News Tonight with Peter Jennings” and other ABC News broadcasts. He was one of the few American journalists reporting from Panama City during the U.S. invasion in December 1989.

Prior to joining ABC News, Quiñones was a reporter with WBBM-TV in Chicago. He won two Emmy Awards for his 1980 reporting on the plight of illegal aliens from Mexico. From 1975 to 1978, Quiñones was a news editor at KTRH radio in Houston, Texas. During that period, he also was an anchor-reporter for KPRC-TV.

Quiñones received a Bachelor of Arts degree in speech communications from St. Mary’s University, San Antonio, Texas. He received a master’s degree from the Columbia School of Journalism.