After just two years at ABC News, news anchor Maria Elena Salinas announced she is exiting the program on social media.
What’s Happening:
- Deadline has shared that Maria Elena Salinas took to Instagram to announce that she will be departing ABC News.
- In her heartfelt social media post, the new personality reminisced about her time at the network and also thanked all of the journalists that she worked with.
- Salinas had previously spent her career working at Univision, reporting exclusively in Spanish. Her stint at ABC News was her first gig that catered to English speaking audiences.
- In her post, she thanked ABC News Live and Kimberly Goodwin for giving her the opportunity to “tell our stories to different audiences in different platforms.”
- Salinas joined ABC News back on March 30th, 2022. Prior to the position, she had served as a contributor for CBS News beginning in 2019.
- Starting at Universion’s LA affiliate KMEX-TV in 1981, Salinas contributed more than 30 years of her life as a co-anchor for Noticiero Univision.
- Salinas closed out her announcement with “Now I can really retire (maybe?)” hinting that she may return to journalism at some point.
- As for now, Salinas will be taking time to step back away from her career.
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