Patricio G. Espinoza
MultiMedia Specialist & Broadcast Journalist
Patricio Espinoza is an experienced and accomplished five time Emmy Award winning Journalist, and MultiMedia Specialist.
During the last 20 years, Patricio has functioned at many levels in the News and Entertainment industry including clients such as ABC News, A&E, Discovery, NPR, PBS, Entertainment Tonight, Billboard Latino, Univision and Telemundo among others.
Currently Patricio is an independent MultiMedia Web Specialist actively developing web enterprises that combine traditional media content with new generation interactive on-line communities. Additional Patricio consults in the design and development of multimedia rich on-line social networks. Latest projects include: QPNN.tv, LatinoGreen.tv Idonuz.com, NuzGeeks.com
Espinoza is also an active Contributing News Correspondent and Freelance Network News Producer to ABC News and NPR-Radio Bilingue On-line Patricio maintains a bilingual Blog "My Reporter's NotePad" and his work has been featured in PBS's DocuBloggers, AlternativeChannel.com, MediaFly, Zencast.com and Vodcast.tv among others. At a corporate level Patricio offers Media Relations Training and Crisis Media Management. Major assignments include Katrina & Rita hurricanes, 9/11 and Presidential election's coverage.
Patricio is a Poynter Fellow, and 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 2
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 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...
Much of this site is work in progress. The idea is to share some of my experiences with friends, colleagues, and perhaps an opportunity that may come along. Certainly it would be foolish for me not to always look to move forward and reach for new challenges.
I would like to take this opportuntiy to thank my family. They are my inspiration. 
