Rick Sanchez has been a journalist and television news anchor for over 30 years. He was the CEO of Agua Media, the first to market podcast network aimed at acculturated Latinos and the New American Mainstream. Rick 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, RT and I Heart radio. At CNN, he was the host of his own show called Rick’s List and was frequently a substitute anchor for CNN’s 8 pm prime time broadcast. Rick was one of the highest rated anchors on CNN. He’s won several Emmys, was part of three Peabody award winning teams as well as an Alfred A. Dupont, 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.Rick has been an impassioned advocate and pioneer in marrying social media and the news. Rick was the first national news anchor to use Twitter. In 2009, the New York times singled Rick out as a social media pioneer and NPR famously wrote, “CNN news anchor Rick Sanchez was tweeting before Twitter was cool.”Rick used social media to launch viewer-driven newscasts, something no one else had ever done before, in what he calls a “national conversation.” He is one of the few anchors who follows many of his own Twitter followers and engages in discussions with them off the air about news, sports and their lives.http://RickSanchezTV.com