León Krauze
León Rodrigo Krauze Turrent, born January 4, 1975, in Mexico City, is a Mexican journalist, author, and news anchor. He is the son of writer Enrique Krauze. He is married and has children and holds a master’s degree from New York University. He started as a sports journalist focused on football and became a renowned historian of Mexican football, writing four books and about eighty documentaries.
Since 1997 he has covered politics in the United States for both American and Mexican media. In 2005 he published La Casa Dividida, about the first five years of the Bush presidency. He has interviewed leaders such as Juan Manuel Santos, Nick Clegg, Felipe Calderón, Enrique Peña Nieto, Shimon Peres, and Barack Obama. His work has appeared in Foreign Affairs, The New Republic, Foreign Policy, Newsweek, Los Angeles Times, El País, and Letras Libres. He is currently a contributor at The Daily Beast, writes a weekly column for El Universal, and hosts the Gabfest en Español podcast for Slate. In 2016 he became a journalism professor at USC Annenberg.
Krauze has worked in radio and television. He hosted the popular Segunda Emisión in Mexico for five years, and later anchored Hora 21 for Foro TV. He spent ten years as the main anchor at KMEX-DT in Los Angeles and hosted Open Source on Fusion TV. He also hosted En boca de León on KTNQ in Los Angeles. His last KMEX newscast was January 14, 2022. Ten days later he joined Univision in Miami as co-anchor of Noticiero Univision Edición Nocturna with Patricia Janiot. On November 15, 2023 he announced his departure from Univision, reportedly after Univision aired an interview with Donald Trump.
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