Angela Patricia Janiot biography

Angela Patricia Janiot Martirena was born in 1965 in Bucaramanga, Colombia, she 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 University of the Savannah in Bogota. She joined CNN in

1992, where she hosted the Noticiero CNN Internacional. Since CNN en Espanol was founded in

1997, she became one of its main news presenter.

She has received several journalism awards, as the Golden Mike Award in 1990 and the Simon

Bolivar Journalism Award in Colombia. She also was nominated to the Emmy Award.

Janiot has a foundation called Colombianitos, which helps the children who are victims of the

Colombian armed conflict. She is married to Miguel Yenos and currently lives in Atlanta,

Georgia.