Entertainment Affair

Elizabeth Espinosa Joins CNN Latino 'Sin Limites'

by Gladys Rios | January 21, 2013

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Emmy-award winner journalist and anchor, Elizabeth Espinosa, crosses over to the Hispanic Market, with her new show Sin Limites, part of the new programming block that CNN Latino is bringing to Los Angeles. CNN Latino will launch on January 28, with a daily block from 3pm-11pm (PT) of customized content directed at the U.S. Hispanic audience, and not to be confused with CNN en Español, the leader of news in the U.S. and Latin America. Sin Limites is a talk show, magazine-style, that will explore the issues affecting the Los Angeles community presented in a more actualized environment.

“It’s such a blessing to be able to do the crossover and serve a community, and really understand the needs, because you have a different vantage point,” she said in a recent interview. Starting many years ago as an intern at a general market station, and moving up the ladder in this competitive business, has brought Espinosa to where she is today, and she is very excited to now become a member of the CNN Latino family.

Born and raised in Los Angeles, she feels that gives her an advantage,“I’m so good about knowing this town. It has given me an awesome, in-depth understanding of what this community is about, what we lack, and what we should be looking at.” Although the show is Los Angeles based, she’s thinking of everybody, considering that the issues that might affect Hispanics in Los Angeles, are the same issues Hispanics in Miami or New York could be dealing with.

“We are going to tackle national topics and issues, like gun control, for example, and obviously talk to the experts that we have here [in LA], but because we have CNN as our family, we’re able to tap into the resources,” she added. “We’re going to serve our community in terms of what the needs are, what are people talking about, this at the end of the day is a universal theme.”

Espinosa is not only an active voice representing her community, women, and minorities, but also people with disabilities. She credits her younger brother Christian, who was born with brain damage, to being “truthfully the fire and the inspiration for that.” And she adds, “what I’m trying to do is use that pain to do something good. I don’t want his life to be in vain, and for whatever reason, God has given me this heart for my brother, and to be a voice for so many people who don’t have it.”

This passion and enthusiasm is what Espinosa wants to pass on to a new generation of young Hispanics, especially those trying to break into the journalism business. In order to achieve your goals, she offers these encouraging words, “believe in yourself, have faith, and keep in mind that you are not the story, you are the vehicle to serve the viewer.” And even with all her years of experience, she feels like a student like everybody else, because every day is a new learning experience for her.

“What we’re doing is giving our Latinos in this country the American Dream,” she said. Watch out world, here comes Elizabeth Espinosa, and she is coming with no limits, without boundaries.

 

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