John Quinones

John Quiñones is the Emmy Award-winning co-anchor of ABC's Primetime and has been with the network for nearly 25 years. During his tenure he has reported extensively for ABC News, predominantly serving as a correspondent for Primetime and 20/20.

Quiñones' recent work includes a series of reports entitled What Would You Do? The reports test human nature through hidden camera scenarios. He has also extensively covered a religious sect in northern Arizona that forces its young female members to take part in polygamous marriages. Other recent reports include going undercover with a hidden camera to reveal how clinics were performing unnecessary surgical procedures as part of a major nationwide insurance scam.

Quiñones has won many journalistic awards including an ALMA Award from the National Council of La Raza for his critically acclaimed ABC News special, Latin Beat; a Gabriel Award for his report following a young man to Colombia in his search for his birth mother; a National Emmy Award for his work on the ABC documentary Burning Questions: The Poisoning of America; a World Hunger Media Award and a Citation from the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Awards for To Save the Children; and seven National Emmy Awards for his Primetime Live, Burning Questions, and 20/20 work. He also contributed reports to ABC News' unprecedented, 24-hour, live, global millennial broadcast, which won the George Foster Peabody Award. Among his other prestigious awards were the First Prize in International Reporting and the Robert F. Kennedy Prize for his piece on Modern Slavery: Children Sugar Cane Cutters in the Dominican Republic.

Quiñones joined ABC News in June 1982 as a general assignment correspondent based in Miami, providing reports for World News Tonight with Peter Jennings and other ABC News broadcasts. He was one of the few American journalists reporting from Panama City during the US invasion in December 1989. Before joining ABC News, Quiñones was a reporter with WBBM-TV in Chicago. He won two Emmy Awards for his 1980 reporting on the plight of illegal aliens from Mexico. From 1975 to 1978, Quiñones was a news editor at KTRH radio in Houston, Texas. During that period, he also was an anchor-reporter for KPRC-TV.

Quiñones is also author of the book Heroes Among Us: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Choices, chronicling the bravery of ordinary people who perform heroic acts of humanity.

Quiñones received a Bachelor of Arts degree in speech communications from St. Mary's University, San Antonio, Texas. He received a master's degree from the Columbia School of Journalism.