María Elena Salinas

María Elena Salinas is an award-winning American broadcast journalist, news anchor, and author. She began her journalism career at KMEX-TV in Los Angeles in 1981 and served for nearly four decades as co-anchor of Univision’s Spanish-language evening newscast, Noticiero Univision. She later joined ABC News as a contributor and consultant. Salinas is a founding member of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists and has received a Peabody Award, an Emmy Award for Lifetime Achievement, and other major broadcasting honors.

Her published books include the memoir I Am My Father’s Daughter: Living a Life Without Secrets (2006), written with Liz Balmaseda, and One Year in Uvalde, co-authored with John Quiñones. The latter draws on year-long ABC News reporting about the Uvalde, Texas, community after the 2022 school shooting.