Patricio G. Espinoza
MultiMedia Specialist & Broadcast Journalist
Patricio Espinoza is an experienced and accomplished five time Emmy Award winning Journalist & New Media Creative and Producer. Most recently a 2009 Emmy, Advanced Media Awards recipient for his work online.
During the last 20 years, Patricio has functioned at many levels in the News and Media industry.
Currently Patricio is a contributing Journalist, and one of only a handful of All Platform Journalists at the forefront of a the latest Digital New Media Convergence. His latest Digital Journalism Projects include SA4mayor.com and AlamoCityTimes.com as well as student journalism digital efforts training and coaching NAHJ students.
Patricio's particular interest is the undeserved Latino English market and Spanish language news content. And he covers and contributes with related topics to several national news organizations including: ABC.com and ABC News, A&E, Discovery, NPR, PBS, Entertainment Tonight, Billboard Latino, Univision and Telemundo among others.
Most recently, Patricio Espinoza developed a series of new media rich, viral interactive on-line communities for Quepasa.com, one of the largest Latino social Networks in the world. Today, he continues his efforts to attract and inform the "YouTube" and "Social Networks" generation. His latest projects include: IdoNews.com and the QuePasa News Network-TV , both English-Spanish user content generated sites. He is also an active contributor to CNN.com, CurrentTV, PBS's DocuBloggers and his own blog My Reporter's NotePad now syndicated through iTunes.
At a corporate level, Patricio consults and develops viral marketing and on-line content targeted to Latino audiences both in English & Spanish. And also provides Media Relations Training and Media Crisis Media Management. Major assignments include Katrina & Rita hurricanes, 9/11, and Presidential election's coverage.
Patricio is a Poynter Fellow, and a 2009 McCormick Fellowship recipient. His work has received five consecutive Emmy awards, and multiple nominations in 2003, 2004, 2005 and 2006.
Espinoza’s commitment is the force that developed “En Su Defensa” (2003-2005), the first and only Emmy Award winning Spanish language Investigative & Consumer unit in Houston, Texas. In less than two years, Patricio’s efforts recovered thousands of dollars, and helped many families in the Houston area, while generating a strong following, and historic ratings for KXLN-TV, in addition to several Emmy's, and City of Houston proclamations including: "En Su Defensa" month, and a "Patricio Espinoza Day" in Houston, Texas.
Patricio Espinoza is the founding News Director of Telemundo, San Antonio (1989-1993) where he built an entire local news team beating the competition after 30 years ruling that market. In 1993 Patricio also founded the Telemundo's Texas News Bureau and acted as their first network Texas Correspondent. He is an active member of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists NAHJ, RTNDA, NAPTE and NATAS.
As a Network Producer and National Correspondent, some of Patricio's major breaking news assignments include Hurricane Katrina, Rita and their aftermath, The News Hour with Jim Lehrer's coverage of the 2006 Mexican elections, the return to space of Space Shuttle Discovery, A&E Anna Nicole Biography, The discovery ch. Survivor Stories, TWA-Flight 800, the Waco Stand-Off, John Paul II in New York and Denver, The Selena Trial, Cuba, Mexico's elections and the Chiapas uprising. In Waco, Patricio was the only Spanish language correspondent live as events unfolded for 54 consecutive days, bringing his reporting live to the US, Mexico & Latin-America.
Patricio was born in Quito, Ecuador, began his career as an editor and promotions producer with Teleamazonas. He lived and went to school in San Diego, California where he also began his career in the U.S. as an intern with KPBS-FM, but his first job was as a handyman and cleaning the transmitter sites for KFMB-TV where he earned a CBS Scholarship, and eventually worked his way into local and network news responsibilities. Through his career, Patricio has served within major news networks including CNN, NBC, CBS, ABC, Univision & Telemundo among others.
Patricio lives with his family in San Antonio, Texas. El resto es historia...
