Univision has announced León Krauze will be joining its top-tier roster of acclaimed journalists on January 24, 2022.
Krauze will co-anchor Univision’s highly rated late-night network newscast, “Noticiero Univision Edición Nocturna,” alongside world-renowned journalist Patricia Janiot.
A native of Mexico and a longtime chronicler of U.S. politics, immigration, and the issues that matter and affect the Hispanic community most in the U.S. and Los Angeles, León Krauze has served as the lead anchor at KMEX Univision 34 in Los Angeles, the No. 1 Station in the market for Local News regardless of language.
Krauze also hosts “Epicentro,” a weekly news podcast for Univision News. His work has been published in Foreign Affairs, The New Republic, Foreign Policy, Newsweek, Los Angeles Times, El País, Letras Libres, The Daily Beast and The New Yorker. He’s currently a weekly columnist for Mexico’s El Universal and for The Washington Post‘sGlobal Opinions section. He has covered the last four U.S. presidential election cycles and became the first journalist from a U.S. media outlet chosen to moderate a presidential debate in Mexico in 2018.
Krauze has interviewed leading global political figures, including Shimon Peres and Barack Obama, among many others. For five years, Krauze hosted “Segunda Emisión,” Mexico’s highest rated afternoon radio newsmagazine. Upon moving to television, Krauze quickly became a success as well, anchoring “Hora 21,” the main newscast for Foro TV, Televisa’s 24/7 news network.
He has won nine Emmys, two Golden Mics, an Edward R. Murrow award, and a Southern California Journalism Award from the Los Angeles Press Club. GQ Magazine named Krauze Mexico’s Journalist of the Year in 2011. He held the two-year Wallis Annenberg Chair in Journalism at USC and is now a senior fellow at USC’s Center on Communication Leadership & Policy.
“The addition of León Krauze to our outstanding Univision Network News team strengthens our capacity to inform and serve the Hispanic community exponentially. We’re thrilled to have him join celebrated Patricia Janiot in one of our most widely-viewed newscasts,” stated Leopoldo Gomez, president, Univision News. “León’s unwavering commitment to journalistic excellence, his unique understanding of the Hispanic community and his close relationship with our audiences are undisputable and will help us ensure we are always at their side, giving them a voice and providing them the news and information they need to make their daily decisions.”
“Doing journalism in Los Angeles and serving the extraordinary Hispanic community of Southern California at Univision 34 during these 10 years has been the greatest privilege of my career as a journalist. Local television in the most important market in the country has given me many lessons and emotions. I am excited to now join the great Univision national news team and to be able to work side-by-side with a consummate professional like Patricia Janiot,” said Univision News Anchor León Krauze. “Both the Univision Network News team and Patricia have always devoted their reporting with dedication and professionalism to what is, without a doubt, the most vibrant and dynamic community in the United States. My commitment is the same: to give a voice to the Hispanic community and to work tirelessly in search of the news.”
He began his career as a sports journalist, focusing on soccer. That passion led him to become an expert and official chronicler of the Mexican national team and a highly regarded historian: he has written four books and eighty documentaries on the history of “futbol” in Mexico. As an author, he also wrote “La Casa Dividida” in 2005, which covered the first five years of the George W. Bush presidency. Most recently he produced a collection of on-the-street interviews of Hispanic residents in Los Angeles titled “La Mesa,” which was broadcasted by Univision and later curated in Krauze’s latest book of the same name. He describes the work as a portrait of what it is like to be Hispanic in Southern California.
Besides his journalism career, Krauze is also a novelist of fantasy fare and children’s literature. He is about to move with his wife and three sons from Santa Monica, California to Miami, Florida.