Tristán and Martínez-Guzmán promoted at Univision News

Univision News has announced the promotion of María Martínez-Guzmán and Gabriela Tristán. Martínez-Guzmán will now hold the title of vice president and executive producer, News Gathering; Tristán will be vice president and executive producer, News Production. From their new positions, Martínez-Guzmán and Tristán will work collaboratively to continue to deliver and maintain the journalistic excellence that Hispanic America has come to expect from Univision News programming. They will both report to Patsy Loris, senior vice president and senior news director for UCI.

Martínez-Guzmán will supervise and assign daily stories for all newscasts; plan and coordinate exclusive interviews, series and special news coverage; and manage correspondents and assignment editors.

Tristán will oversee daily production and broadcast of all newscasts; plan and organize special coverage of events and breaking news; and manage Univision News anchors, producers, and writers. She will also be the point person for other UCI departments with specific requests and news-related production needs.

“Both María and Gabriela have proven to be great assets to our team and we are thrilled to expand their responsibilities, giving them new opportunities to shine,” said Daniel Coronell, president of News for UCI. “María’s extraordinary journalistic instinct has helped take Univision News’ coverage and audience reach to new levels. And time after time, Gabriela has been our ‘woman of every hour,’ always ready to tackle breaking news and plan day-to-day coverage to ensure that Univision’s reporting is among the very best. Both of them are experienced leaders and we are certain that they will contribute significantly to the success of Univision News in their new roles.”

Martínez-Guzmán most recently served as managing editor of Network News and before that, national and international assignment editor, Univision News. She was part of the team responsible for launching “Al Punto,” Spanish-language television’s first Sunday morning political and public affairs show, where she coordinated and produced high profile interviews with world presidents, U.S. political figures, writers, civic leaders and sports personalities. Additionally, she has also field-produced major national and international news events throughout her career. Prior to joining Univision News in 2002, Martínez-Guzmán was news director at KNVO Univision 48, Entravision’s affiliate television station in McAllen, Texas, where she managed the day-to-day operations of the newsroom.

Tristán joined the Univision News family as an intern in 1993 and has since held several production positions, beginning as producer of the news segment for Univision Network’s morning show “Despierta América” and subsequently for Network News. After moving up to general producer for “Al Punto,” she was promoted to executive producer in 2012. Her most recent title was executive producer, Univision Network News.