Univision Announces Dates for “Meet the Candidates” Forums

By Verónica Villafañe, Media Moves

Mark your calendars!  Univision News and Facebook will host their “Meet the Candidates” conversations with Republican presidential candidate, Governor Mitt Romney next Wednesday, September 19, 2012 and with President Barack Obama’s on Thursday, September 20, 2012.

After Univision anchors Jorge Ramos and María Elena Salinas got rejected to moderate presidential debates, the network set up their own forums with Republican Mitt Romney and Democrat President Barack Obama.  They won’t be debates, since both men won’t meet face to face, but Univision has promoted the events as the only forum where both presidential candidates will discuss the issues of utmost importance to Hispanics.

The “Meet the Candidates” events will both take place in front of a live audience at the University of Miami BankUnited Center Fieldhouse.  They will be moderated by “Noticiero Univision” anchors Jorge Ramos and María Elena Salinas.  They will air at 10 pm ET.

The conversations will be streamed on the Univision Noticias Facebook Page (http://www.facebook.com/univisionnoticias), with Facebook’s politics hub (http://www.facebook.com/uspolitics) also highlighting the events.

This article was first published in Media Moves.

Veronica Villafañe is an Emmy award-winning journalist, who has worked as an on-air reporter in Spanish and English-language television news. She has worked for Univision, Telemundo, CNN en Español and Los Angeles Fox and UPN stations before diving into a convergence model at the San Jose Mercury News. She is currently the Managing Editor of Intersections South LA, a community news website.