Craig Rivera
{{Short description|American television journalist}}
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|birth_place = New York City, U.S.
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|relatives = Geraldo Rivera (brother)
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Craig Rivera (born October 10, 1954) is an American television journalist, producer, and correspondent for Fox News Channel. He also appeared regularly on the Fox News Channel newsmagazine program Geraldo at Large.
Early life
Craig Rivera was born in Manhattan on October 10, 1954. He is the youngest child of Lillian (née Friedman), a waitress, and Cruz "Allen" Rivera (October 1, 1915 – November 1987), a restaurant worker and cab driver.{{cite web|url=https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/WaterCooler/story?id=4339477&page=1 |title=Excerpt: "His Panic" – ABC News |publisher=Abcnews.go.com |date=2008-02-26 |access-date=2013-11-05}}[http://www.filmreference.com/film/59/Geraldo-Rivera.html Geraldo Rivera Biography (1943–)]. Filmreference.com. Retrieved on 2013-11-5. Rivera's father was a Catholic Puerto Rican,{{cite web|url=https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/WaterCooler/story?id=4339477&page=1 |title=Excerpt: "His Panic" |work=ABC News |date=February 26, 2008 |access-date= November 5, 2013}} and his mother was of Ashkenazi Russian Jewish descent. He grew up in Brooklyn and West Babylon, New York where he attended West Babylon High School. He has four siblings: Irene, Geraldo, Wilfredo, and Sharon.{{citation needed|date=December 2013}}
Career
He attended Kutztown University and majored in Communications and Media studies.{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0729236/bio |title=Bio on Internet Movie Database |website=IMDb |access-date= November 5, 2013}} After graduating, he joined ABC's 20/20 in 1978 as a Producer. He transitioned to Inside Edition in 1986, working for the first time as an on-air talent.
He then left Inside Edition to, along with his brother, join Fox News Channel in light of the 9/11 attacks to cover American combat in the Afghanistan and Iraq Wars. Four years into his career at Fox, he became a Senior Field Producer for Geraldo at Large and appeared each week on the show to present an investigative reporting segment called “Craig Investigates”.{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0729236/ |title=Craig Rivera on the Internet Movie Database |website=IMDb |access-date= November 5, 2013}}
Recognitions
A year before he left Inside Edition, he worked on an investigative segment titled “Home Depot Dangers”,{{cite web|url=http://www.ire.org/resource-center/stories/17500/ |title=Archive of "Home Depot Dangers" Story |access-date= November 8, 2013}} which won a Deadline Club Award for Best Series/Investigative Reporting.{{cite web|url=http://www.insideedition.com/awards |title=Inside Edition - Awards |access-date= November 8, 2013}}
References
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External links
- [http://www.foxnews.com/on-air/geraldo/index.html "Craig Investigates" Segments on FoxNews.com]
- {{IMDb name|0729236}}
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Category:American journalists of Puerto Rican descent
Category:American people of Russian-Jewish descent
Category:American television reporters and correspondents
Category:Jewish American journalists
Category:Kutztown University of Pennsylvania alumni
Category:Journalists from Brooklyn