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About Me

Rick Sanchez is an anchor and contributor for CNN and CNN en Español. Based in the network's world headquarters in Atlanta and New York, Sanchez joined the network 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 in war zones in Nicaragua, the invasion of Grenada and the fall of the Jean-Claude Duvalier regime in Haiti. Additionally, Sanchez has reported live from Havana, Cuba, numerous times. In 2006, Sanchez contributed to the network’s comprehensive coverage of Hurricane Katrina that won a George Foster Peabody Award.Sanchez has also interviewed several prominent newsmakers, including Laura Bush, Jimmy Carter, Fidel Castro, Bill Clinton, Mikhail Gorbachev and Manuel Noriega behind bars, among others.Before joining CNN, Sanchez was an anchor for WTVJ/Channel 6 and an interim anchor for WBZL/Channel 39 in Miami. Prior to his tenure with the NBC affiliate, he worked for two years as a correspondent and anchor for MSNBC. Sanchez joined MSNBC in 2001 as a correspondent and also delivered breaking news for CNBC and filed radio updates for NBC National radio.He also briefly worked as an anchor at KHOU-TV in Houston. Sanchez started 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 an Emmy Award and an American Medical Association "Distinguished Journalist Award." Sanchez studied journalism at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities and played football at Moorhead State University.

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

All of you. Take part in the program. Twitter, Myspace, Facebook, and now text messaging.You've now got another way to connect with our show. Text messaging. Send a text to shortcode 26688 with keyword "Rick" + your message. We'll feature your texts live on-air.

My Blog

Perez Hilton with Rick

Perez Hilton joins me today at 3:50p.  Get me your questions.  I know you've got them.
Posted by on Thu, 10 Sep 2009 06:19:00 GMT

Your thoughts about Ted Kennedy

No matter what your political leanings, Ted Kennedy was a giant of American politics.  Let me know what you remember about the late Senator.
Posted by on Wed, 26 Aug 2009 07:44:00 GMT

arkansas recruit shooter

CNN gets intvw w/confessed Tiller killer Roeder... should he be treated same as a Gitmo "terrorist"
Posted by on Tue, 09 Jun 2009 07:44:00 GMT

Evacuated by Cali fires?

Trying to get some of our social media friends from California who have been impacted by the fires on TV with us today.  Send a message to my inbox if you've been evacuated or impacted.
Posted by on Fri, 08 May 2009 08:48:00 GMT

New feature "Hey Rick"

What do you have to say about the economy? We've got a new feature launching today. Give me a call at 877.692.6609 and leave a message that starts "Hey Rick"Get the calls in early and we'll play some ...
Posted by on Mon, 16 Mar 2009 07:34:00 GMT

Skype contacts

Hey everyone. Working on building a database of viewers on Skype and occasionally using some of you on-air with me.  Post your Skype contact info in this discussion group and I'll get my producers to ...
Posted by on Thu, 05 Mar 2009 10:10:00 GMT

Your questions for Secretary of Education

We've got Arne Duncan, the new Secretary of Education on today to take your questions.  What do you want to know?
Posted by on Tue, 24 Feb 2009 08:49:00 GMT

Your questions for Rep. James Clyburn

We've got House Majority Whip James Clyburn on today to talk stimulus.  He's agreed to answer some of your questions.  So let us know what you want to know about the stimulus.
Posted by on Thu, 12 Feb 2009 09:51:00 GMT

i've got a few, want to chat about news?

somali american teens going missing!  r they being recruited to attack us?  this is wierd and scary!  dozens gone, vanished.  mpls families mystified, worried.  they were hanging out at mosques before...
Posted by on Wed, 28 Jan 2009 07:37:00 GMT

Friday show (plane crash)

All plane crash today.  Except of course our favorite comedian, Angry Bob who will be dropping by later to take us through the week's news.
Posted by on Fri, 16 Jan 2009 12:26:00 GMT