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The DeWinter Difference: Jessica Aguirre, Emmy Award Winning Journalist and News Anchor with NBC Bay Area News
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In this episode of the DeWinter Difference, Derek sits down with Jessica Aguirre, Emmy Award winning Journalist and News Anchor with NBC Bay Area News. Hear Jessica shares stories about her career journey, starting as a young journalist in Miami to becoming an Emmy-award-winning journalist and News Anchor with NBC Bay Area News, the changes she’s seen unfolding in the news industry, and the importance of listening.
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About Jessica Aguirre:
Jessica Aguirre is the 5, 6 and 11 p.m. evening anchor at NBC Bay Area News and an Emmy award winning journalist. Jessica has been a primetime, evening anchor, in the Bay Area for over 20 years.
In addition to anchoring the evening news, Jessica is the co-host of NBC Bay Area’s Race in America: The Conversation alongside Marcus Washington. The show explores racial equity and social injustice and attempts to bridge the divide between backgrounds and generations.
Jessica began her career at the Spanish Language network, Univision, while attending the University of Miami. Before arriving in the Bay Area in 1998 she anchored and reported in Los Angeles and Miami, earning Emmy awards for her series on the struggles of migrant children and for her investigative work on child molesters as well as an Associated Press award for her series chronicling the struggle of boat people fleeing Cuba. During her tenure at NBC Bay Area Jessica won an Emmy for her poignant series, on the emotional journey of an East Bay transgender teen and her efforts to preserve her fertility before undergoing sex reassignment surgery, another Emmy for her live coverage of the "Ghostship" warehouse fire in Oakland and for field anchoring from the deadly Sonoma and Napa county firestorms.
Most recently Jessica was inducted into the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Silver Circle for twenty-five years of excellence in television journalism.
Follow her on Twitter @JessAguirreNBC
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