Patricia Janiot
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Ángela Patricia Janiot (best known as Patricia Janiot outside Colombia) is a Colombian journalist and news presenter, born in 1965 in Bucaramanga.
Before becoming a journalist, Janiot was the first-runner up on Miss Colombia pageant in 1983. She studied Social Communication at University of the Savannah in Bogotá. She joined CNN in 1992, where she hosted the Noticiero CNN Internacional. Since CNN en Español was founded in 1997, she became one of its main news presenter.
She has received several journalism awards, as the Golden Mike Award in 1990 and the Simón Bolívar Journalism Award in Colombia. She also was nominated to the Emmy Award.
Janiot has a foundation called Colombianitos, which helps the children who are victims of the Colombian armed conflict. She is married to Miguel Yenos and currently lives in Atlanta.
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- (Spanish) CNN en Español profile
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