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Introduction :
- A renowned journalist of Hispanic origin, Gloria Pazmino, is based in New York City. In 2020, she was most notable for her COVID-19 reporting at NY1 News. She has also performed her duties as a City Hall Reporter in the past.
- Gloria has also worked for Politico as a political reporter, where she was known for covering New York City Council and City Hall.
Personal Life, Parents and Family Details :
- Gloria Pazmino was born in Cali, Colombia, on September 11, 1987.
- At the age of 11 (in year 1998), Gloria’s parents and her family moved to the USA, first settling in Elmhurst and later residing in Queens, New York City. She is a proud New Yorker and expresses her love for New York quite often on her social media platforms.
- Gloria values her mother’s dignified example as a hardworking woman who worked as a house cleaner to support her child. She also often expresses love for her Abuela (grandmother), who continues to influence her work ethic.
Early Life and Education :
- Gloria’s family migrated to the USA to provide her the best opportunities, and she has seized them at every juncture. Seeing her parents’ hard work, love of newspaper reading planted a seed in Gloria as a curious young woman. It motivated her to create a byline in various digital media outlets in the future.
- She attended Bayonne High School, located in New Jersey, and graduated with distinction.
- Pazmino is also a graduate of a Private Catholic University named St. John’s University based in New York City. While living in New Jersey, Gloria enrolled in the Staten Island, New York campus for her first year. Later, she transferred to Queen’s campus to pursue a degree in Journalism.
- With the will for continuous learning, Gloria has availed opportunities to study abroad while traveling to Russia and India for summer academic immersions.
Career, Job, Salary and Net Worth :
- Gloria started her career as a writing and editing professional intern with Broadcasting & Cable Magazine based in the Greater New York City Area and worked there from 2007 to 2008.
- She worked as a community reporter at the Manhattan Time before moving to NY1.
- Gloria secured a reporting job at Time Warner Cable News NY1 back in 2011. She worked as a reporter in Northern Manhattan and covered breaking news. After gaining valuable experience as a news assistant from 2011 to 2013, she started working on building her career as a political reporter.
- In November 2013, Politico hired Gloria, starting her dream career as a political reporter. She worked as a City Hall reporter at Politico for five years, from 2013 to 2019. Gloria investigated the Police officer assassinations of Wenjian Liu and Rafael Ramos. She reported on the death of Eric Garner and the political rise of Melissa Mark Viverito, who was New York City’s first Latina, elected to lead the City Council.
- While working at Politico, Gloria also followed news developments of the office of Mayor Bill de Blasio. Events covered by Gloria included an elimination campaign about the horse carriage industry and labor contracts settlement with the entire uniformed workforce.
- Bob Hardt, the political director at NY1, recruited Gloria Pazmino to return back to them as a regular reporter. She has been working for NY1 News since 2019.
- Gloria is a fine example of the ‘American Dream’ being actualized because of her successful transition from being a local print journalist to being a political reporter on television.
Interesting Facts, Height and Trivia :
- In a tweet posted on January 23rd, 2018, Gloria declared that she is now a proud citizen of the United States of America. After gaining citizenship, Gloria voted in her first Presidential election in November 2020. She was happy that she could vote now while at the same time, voice her opinions on the political process.
- As a youngster, as she was an immigrant, Gloria enrolled in an effective ESL program that transformed her spoken and written English abilities.
- While being interviewed for the news blog at St. John’s University on October 8th, 2020, Gloria described her success story as the American Dream’s actualization. She credited the university for providing her the foundation for her success. Gloria told the audience that she always thinks in English but dreams in Spanish.
- As a proud bilingual speaker, Gloria intends to contribute to NYC’s bilingual community. She once penned a column in a Manhattan community newspaper, saying that she wants to preserve, celebrate, embrace, and pass down her culture by staying bilingual.
- Gloria grew up across the street from Flushing Meadows- Corona and loved to discover new restaurants. Outside the newsroom, Gloria, like a true New Yorker, can be seen with her camera on the E train taking photos and tweeting.
- Informing the communities and empowering people to make informed political decisions as part of her active and vital role in democracy through journalism is the most inspiring thing for Gloria.
- According to her Instagram post on October 19th, 2019, Gloria covered a new proposal by the NYC Mayor at NY1 News. NYC Mayor and Council proposed to ensure that the city will never build a new jail at Rikers Island. It was also proposed to ban the use of the existing facility by 2026.
- Gloria loves to cover Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, also known by her initials ‘AOC’, who is serving as the U.S. Representative for New York’s 14th congressional district. On June 1st, 2019, Gloria posted a snap with AOC in Jacksons Heights bar in Queensboro, New York City. Gloria told her fans that AOC jumped behind the bar to mix drinks and served tables like she once did before becoming a Congress member. AOC was calling attention to the wage disparities faced by tipped workers and rallying support for her legislation. The legislation would raise the federal minimum tipped wage to 15 dollars per hour.
- Gloria is vocal about animal rights and marijuana legalization. In June 2019, she discussed with Juan from Zackfinknews on the Off Topic/On Politics podcast the topics of animal rights and the death of marijuana legalization in New York.
- On the occasion of Gloria’s 14th birthday, her connection to New York City was strengthened in a sad way…it was the day of the unfortunate 9/11 terrorist attacks. She describes the day as unforgettable due to the strange relationship it fostered for her in the years to come. The celebration has been a difficult concept for her since then due to all the chaos she witnessed.
- In 2011, Gloria decided to be a pseudo-Dominican national and undertake a quest to prepare the dish ‘Habichuelas con dulce.’ Gloria wrote about the exciting experience for Washington Heights at Manhattan Times on March 22nd, 2011.
You are a breath of fresh air.
It’s a pride to have a Hispanic, working for CNN who represents us globally and covers the Hawaii disaster in such detail.
He leído tu biografía y es un orgullo tener a una colombiana profesional viviendo y trabajando en NY.❤️
Good work not forgetting where she came from.
Congratulations on your hard work and your accomplishments and keeping New Yorkers informed on the news. I watch you regularly on News1NY.