Boris Sanchez is one in every of three anchors on CNN News Central and made his debut Monday afternoon internet hosting alongside Brianna Keilar and Jim Sciutto.
The Cuban-born journalist just lately stated in an interview that taking up this new gig was one thing “personal” for him.
“When my family came to the United States, and landed in Miami, the day that I turned three, that idea that democracy is something worth fighting for that it is something you must protect, that it is worthy of sacrifice, has always stuck with me,” Sanchez instructed Forbes.
Sanchez recalled that his mom dreamt of changing into a journalist rising up and that impressed him to pursue a profession in journalism.
“I love writing, I love telling stories, I love going out and talking to interesting people and experiencing everything that the world has to offer,” he stated.
Sanchez added, “But this is something personal. I’ve been given a platform to speak for people that are underrepresented, and to again, defend democracy. And that’s not something I take lightly.”
Sanchez had beforehand been anchoring CNN New Day on weekend mornings and leaping on the alternative to anchor CNN News Central was one thing that might marry his ardour for reporting on the scene with delivering the information inside a studio.
“Most of my career I’ve spent reporting from all sorts of natural disasters and terrorist attacks,” he stated. “And being able to be a tour guide for the viewer, and bring them into a scene after a hurricane or after a shooting and literally take a viewer into a scene that they can’t access and give them proximity and detail and texture is huge. And now, with the new set that we have, you’re able to take that experience of being somewhere and do that in the studio with these enormous walls of flying graphics, and color and numbers and detail. And so I love that what I enjoy doing most in the field, I’m now getting to do in the studio.”
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