Guillermo Ortega Ruiz (born February 15, 1955, in

Mexico City Mexico City is the capital city, capital and List of cities in Mexico, largest city of Mexico, as well as the List of North American cities by population, most populous city in North America. It is one of the most important cultural and finan ...

) is a Mexican journalist. He was

Televisa Grupo Televisa, S.A.B., simply known as Televisa, is a Mexican telecommunications and broadcasting company. A major Latin American mass media corporation, it often presents itself as the largest producer of Spanish-language content. In April ...

Nightly News Anchor.

Biography

Son of Benjamin Ortega Hernandez also a journalist and Guillermina Ruiz Marcos. He studied journalism at the School of Journalism Carlos Septién Garcia.

Career

He began working for

on June 16, 1976, at the age of 21, starting as a reporter at the News 24 Hours from 1976 to 1981. He participated as a correspondent in the

Salvadoran Civil War The Salvadoran Civil War () was a twelve-year civil war in El Salvador that was fought between the government of El Salvador, backed by the United States, and the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN), a coalition of left-wing guer ...

. He Covered state visits of Presidents of Mexico to different parts of the world, from

José López Portillo José Guillermo Abel López Portillo y Pacheco (; 16 June 1920 – 17 February 2004) was a Mexican writer, lawyer, and politician affiliated with the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) who served as the 58th president of Mexico from 1976 ...

Vicente Fox Vicente Fox Quesada (; born 2 July 1942) is a Mexican businessman and politician who served as the 62nd president of Mexico from 2000 to 2006. After campaigning as a Right-wing populism, right-wing populist, Fox was elected president on the Nat ...

. He narrated the visits of the

Pope John Paul II Pope John Paul II (born Karol Józef Wojtyła; 18 May 19202 April 2005) was head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 16 October 1978 until Death and funeral of Pope John Paul II, his death in 2005. In his you ...

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and Space Missions, as well as witnessed and reported unrest and conflicts in various countries and covered presidential campaigns. As TV host he has been in the following shows: *Televisa **1978: ''24 Horas'' - in substitution of Jacobo Zabludovsky **1981-1984: ''En Contacto Directo'' - Host and Director - Channel 5 **1984-1986: ''Notivisa'' - Host and Director - Canal 5 **1987-1988: ''Hoy Mismo'' - Host - Channel 2 **1988-1998: ''Eco'' - Host - vía satellite to all the Americas and Europe **1992-1998: ''Al Despertar'' - Host and Director - Channel 2 **1998-2000: ''El Noticiero con Guillermo Ortega'' - Channel 2 **1999-2000: ''En la Radio'' - XEQ *

MVS Comunicaciones Grupo MVS (MVS) is a Mexican media conglomerate. The company owns MASTV, MVS Radio operator of four national radio networks, MVS Televisión operator and distributor of seven pay television networks, E-Go wireless broadband internet and Dis ...

**2000-2003 ''MVS Noticias'' - MVS Radio From 1998 to 2000 he was anchor of the nightly news emission in "El Canal de las Estrellas" (Channel 2) of Televisa, entitled ''El Noticiero with Guillermo Ortega'', in place of 24 hours, with

Jacobo Zabludovsky Jacobo Zabludovsky Kraveski (May 24, 1928 – July 2, 2015) was a Mexican journalist. He was the first anchorman in Mexican television and his TV news program, ''24 Horas'' (''24 Hours'') was for decades regarded as the most important in the co ...

. In 2000 he left Televisa and was replaced with Joaquín López-Dóriga. In 2001 he became the newspaper's editorial columnist of

La Crónica de Hoy ''La Crónica de Hoy'' is a Mexican newspaper published in Mexico City Mexico City is the capital city, capital and List of cities in Mexico, largest city of Mexico, as well as the List of North American cities by population, most populous ...

. In 2007 he was appointed General Director of the newspaper.

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