Blanca Rosa Vilchez is an Emmy Award-winning journalist in New York.  She is the senior national correspondent for Univision’s premiere weeknight news show, Noticiero Univision.  For more than 30 years, she has appeared on the program, becoming a leading fixture on the screens of Latinos around the country — Noticiero Univision is the number-one evening newscast for U.S. Hispanics.

While New York has been her home for four decades, Blanca Rosa is proudly from Peru.  There, she first discovered her love for the profession. At 22, she became the first female news director in the nation, leading the daily newscast 90 Segundos (90 Seconds).  When she moved to the United States some years later, she started her career at WXTV Channel 41, the local Univision network station. She then went on to Univision at the national broadcast channel. 

Her in-depth, revelatory, and more than anything, compassionate reporting of the tragedies on and after September 11, 2001, still resonates with New Yorkers and Latinos today.  Blanca Rosa was one of the first to arrive at the scene that morning, mere moments after the second tower had been hit.  While reporting right under the Twin Towers, she and her camera operator witnessed the collapse of the second tower.  The video of Blanca Rosa running from the collapsing tower was seen around the world.  Today, the clothing she wore that day and her press badge can be found on display at the National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C. The Smithsonian also collected her oral history about her work and the field of broadcast journalism. Most recently, Blanca Rosa Vilchez has covered extensively the criminal trial of former President Trump, the corruption trial of Senator Bob Menendez, and the upcoming U.S. presidential election.