John Quiñones Biography
John Quiñones is an American journalist of Mexican descent and a longtime correspondent and anchor for ABC News. A graduate of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, he has built a distinguished career reporting for 20/20, Nightline, and Good Morning America. He is best known as the host of the long-running ABC News program What Would You Do?, a role he has held since 2008. Over the course of his career, Quiñones has earned numerous honors, including seven Emmy Awards and a Peabody Award.
During his more than 40 years at ABC News, Quiñones has reported extensively across all of the network’s major programs and platforms. In addition to his work on 20/20, Nightline, and Good Morning America, he has served as anchor of both What Would You Do? and Primetime, becoming one of the network’s most recognizable and respected journalists.
Quiñones joined ABC News in June 1982 as a general assignment correspondent based in Miami. In that role, he filed reports for World News Tonight with Peter Jennings and other ABC News broadcasts. He was among the few American journalists reporting from Panama City during the U.S. invasion of Panama in December 1989.
Before joining ABC News, Quiñones worked as a reporter at WBBM-TV in Chicago, where his 1980 reporting on the plight of undocumented immigrants from Mexico earned him two Emmy Awards. Earlier in his career, from 1975 to 1978, he served as news editor at KTRH radio in Houston, Texas, while also working as an anchor and reporter for KPRC-TV.
John Quiñones Age
Quiñones is 73 years old as of 2026. He was born Juan Manuel “John” Quiñones on 23 May 1952 in San Antonio, Texas, United States.
John Quiñones Height
John stands at a height of 5 feet 8 inches ( 1.73m).
John Quiñones Family
Quiñones is a fifth-generation San Antonian and a Mexican-American. He grew up in a Spanish-speaking household and did not begin learning English until he was six years old. His father was laid off from his job as a janitor when he was 13 years old, and the family joined a caravan of migrant farmworkers traveling to Traverse City, Michigan, to harvest cherries. Later that summer, the Quiñones family took the migrant route to pick tomatoes near Toledo, Ohio.
John Quiñones Education
John was chosen to participate in the federal anti-poverty program Upward Bound, which prepared inner-city high school students for college while attending Brackenridge High School in San Antonio. Quiñones was a member of the Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity Sigma Beta-Zeta as an undergraduate. Quiñones earned a Master of Arts degree in journalism from Columbia University after graduating from St. Mary’s with a Bachelor of Arts degree in speech communication.
John Quiñones Wife
Quinones has had two marriages in his life. In 1988, he married Nancy Loftus in a private ceremony in West Palm Beach. He and Nancy went to the same high school and started dating soon after meeting.
Unfortunately, his first marriage ended in divorce in 2009, and he remarried Deanne White, a former model, the following year.
John Quiñones Sons
Julian Quiñones, Nicco Quiñones, and Andrea Quiñones are his three children from his first marriage. He currently lives in Manhattan, New York, with his second wife and children in his condo.
John Quiñones What Would You Do
Quiones has hosted the What Would You Do? show for all sixteen seasons. What Would You Do? (abbreviated WWYD, and formerly known as Primetime: What Would You Do? until the program’s fifth season) is an American situational hidden camera television series that has aired on the American Broadcasting Company (ABC) since February 26, 2008. The show, created by Chris Whipple, follows the reactions of passing strangers as they encounter conflict or illegal activity in public, unaware that everything is staged and being recorded with hidden cameras.
John Quiñones Career
John Quiñones is a veteran ABC News correspondent whose reporting spans 20/20, Nightline, and Good Morning America. Over a distinguished 40-year career at ABC News, he has reported across virtually every program and platform at the network and has served as anchor of both What Would You Do? and Primetime, becoming one of the most recognizable figures in broadcast journalism.
He joined ABC News in June 1982 as a general assignment correspondent based in Miami, filing reports for World News Tonight with Peter Jennings and other ABC News broadcasts. He was among the few American journalists reporting from Panama City during the U.S. invasion of Panama in December 1989.
Before ABC News, Quiñones worked as a reporter at WBBM-TV in Chicago, where his 1980 coverage of undocumented immigrants from Mexico earned him two Emmy Awards. Earlier, from 1975 to 1978, he served as news editor at KTRH radio in Houston, Texas, while also working as an anchor and reporter for KPRC-TV.
Quiñones earned a Bachelor of Arts in speech communications from St. Mary’s University in San Antonio, Texas, and a master’s degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. He has also received honorary degrees, including a Doctor of Letters from Davis & Elkins College in 2014 and an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from Utah Valley University in 2016.
John Quiñones Net Worth
Quiñones has an estimated net worth of $2 Million.
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