Josué Fonseca Aponte (better known as Jay Fonseca) is a
Puerto Rican journalist
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Roles
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,
radio host
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,
lawyer
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, and
political analyst
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. Fonseca appeared in ''
Día a Día
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'' and ''
Telenoticias
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'' on
Telemundo Puerto Rico for eleven years until he announced his departure from the channel on 16 July 2021.
Fonseca holds a
bachelor's degree
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in
Finance
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and
Accounting
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from the
University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez
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(2006) and a
juris doctor
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(''
cum laude
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'') from the
University of Puerto Rico School of Law
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(2011). From 2018 till his departure from Telemundo in 2021, he was the host of his own investigative reporting program, "Jay y sus rayos x,"
which will continue to be broadcast under "los Datos son los Datos".
Family
Fonseca is the son of Víctor Fonseca and Teresa Aponte.
References
Peter Muller exige la salida de Jay Fonseca de Telemundo
External links
Official Facebook PageOfficial Twitter account
1982 births
Living people
People from San Lorenzo, Puerto Rico
Puerto Rican male journalists
Puerto Rican lawyers
Puerto Rican political journalists
Puerto Rican radio personalities
Puerto Rican television personalities
University of Puerto Rico alumni
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