John Quiñones, former CBS 2 reporter, honored with award at DePaul
CHICAGO -- News correspondent John Quiñones, who was an award-winning reporter for CBS 2 in the late 70s and early 80s, was honored by DePaul University on Thursday.At a DePaul luncheon, Quiñones received the Distinguished Journalist Award from the DePaul University Center for Journalism Integrity & Excellence.Quiñones began his journalism career as a radio news editor in Houston, before coming to Chicago and joining WBBM-TV, CBS 2 in 1978.
Quiñones went to Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, and traveled undercover across the Rio Grande and the border at night.'I go undercover and find a coyote—smuggler—who put me on an inner tube and floated across the Rio Grande,' he said.He went on to report undercover in hideaway basements where the undocumented were residing around Chicago.'Villains? Or Victims?' earned an Emmy Award in 1981.Quiñones left CBS 2 for ABC News in 1982, and remains with that network to this day.
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