Patricia Janiot
Ángela Patricia Janiot Martirena (born 1965 in Bucaramanga, Colombia, and best known as Patricia Janiot) is a Colombian journalist and news presenter.
Before becoming a journalist, Janiot was the first-runner up on Miss Colombia pageant in 1983. She studied Social Communication at Universidad de la Sabana 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 anchor.
She has received several journalism awards, as the Golden Mike Award in 1990 and the Simón Bolívar Journalism Award in Colombia. She also has been nominated to the Emmy Award.
Janiot is president of a foundation called Colombianitos, which helps the children who are victims of the Colombian armed conflict. She is married to Miguel Yelos San Martin and currently lives in Atlanta, Georgia.
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