Antonio Mora

Antonio Mora has won multiple Emmy Awards as a journalist and television news anchor. He is currently the Frances L. Wolfson Chair at the University of Miami’s Department of Journalism and Media Management, where he teaches courses in broadcast journalism and television performance. He also advises student-produced shows on UMTV and is the faculty advisor to the student newspaper, The Miami Hurricane.

Antonio is perhaps best known for his years at ABC News, including his four years as the news anchor and chief correspondent for Good Morning America. He has also anchored Al Jazeera America’s prime time newscasts and worked as a lead anchor at local stations in Los Angeles, Chicago, and Miami.

Antonio was the first Hispanic American male to anchor a primetime newscast in Chicago and one of a limited number of Hispanic American males to anchor a national broadcast news show.

Until recently, Antonio was also a columnist for Meta’s Bulletin project. His awards include more than a dozen national and local Emmy Awards, two Peabody Awards, a national Edward R. Murrow Award, and a Silver Dome. In 1999, Hispanic Business Magazine named him one of the country’s “100 Most Influential Hispanics.”

Antonio’s family left Cuba in 1960. He grew up in the United States and Caracas, Venezuela, earning a law degree, summa cum laude, from the Universidad Católica Andrés Bello in Caracas and an LL.M. from Harvard Law School. He has received honorary doctorates from Our Lady of Holy Cross College and Ursinus College.

Before becoming a journalist, Antonio practiced corporate finance law at Debevoise & Plimpton in Manhattan. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a former Vice President of Broadcast for the National Association of Hispanic Journalists. He has served on the boards of numerous non-profit and civic organizations.