Rick Sanchez anchors the weekday program RICK'S LIST (3pm to 5pm, ET) and is a contributor for CNN en Español. Based in the network’s world headquarters in Atlanta, Sanchez joined CNN in September 2004. Throughout his career, Sanchez has reported on major events across the United States and around the world, including on-the-scene coverage of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center towers in New York City. Sanchez has also reported from war zones in Afghanistan and Nicaragua, the invasion of Grenada, and the fall of the Jean-Claude Duvalier regime in Haiti. In 2006, Sanchez contributed to the network’s comprehensive coverage of Hurricane Katrina that won a George Foster Peabody Award. Sanchez, born in Havana, Cuba, frequently reports while interviewing newsmakers simultaneously in both Spanish and English. He has reported live from Cuba numerous times and has interviewed Fidel Castro as well as his sister, Juanita Castro. Sanchez has interviewed several other prominent newsmakers, including First Lady Laura Bush, President Jimmy Carter, President Bill Clinton, U.S.S.R. Grand Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev, General Manuel Noriega behind bars, deposed Honduran President José Manuel Zelaya via satellite from his exile location at the Brazilian Embassy in Tegucigalpa, among others. Sanchez has been a weekend and a weekday anchor for CNN. In 2008, he became the first national anchor to regularly incorporate social media in his news gathering and broadcasts. Prior to joining CNN, Sanchez was an anchor for WTVJ-TV, and an interim anchor for WBZL-TV, both in Miami. Prior to his tenure at WTVJ-TV, he worked for two years as a correspondent and anchor for MSNBC. Sanchez joined MSNBC in 2001 as a correspondent and delivered breaking news updates for CNBC and regularly reported for NBC radio. Sanchez briefly worked as an anchor at KHOU-TV in Houston. Sanchez began his career as a television journalist at WSVN-TV Miami in 1982. In Miami, he became the first person to both anchor a television news program and host a talk show on Spanish-language radio, El Show de Rick Sanchez. Sanchez’s professional honors include a 1983 EMMY® for his long-form series, “When I left Cuba,” as well as an American Medical Association “Distinguished Journalist Award,” for a Houston, TX, investigation into telemarketing scams targeting online consumers of over-the-counter medicines. Sanchez attended Minnesota State University, Moorhead; he received his undergraduate degree in journalism from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities.
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