The news daily Hoy points out in today’s edition that three of the broadcast news nominees this year for the Emmy Awards are Dominicans. One of them, Univisi?n’s chief editor Alejandro Guerrero, has been previously nominated for an Emmy (in 1997, for the coverage of local elections in September 1997). This time he and his colleagues Robert Ya?ez Jr., Maureen Strauss and Adriana Saldarriaga, are nominated in the category "Outstanding Single Newscast" for Univisi?n’s August 20, 1998 coverage of the U.S. bombing of Iraq. Guerrero, a native of Santo Domingo, twice was press chief for RTVD, was once a member of Hoy’s editorial staff and once served as a press aide to the DR’s President. After emigrating to New York about ten years ago, he worked at Radio Wado before landing at Univisi?n.Evans Lewis worked as an editor for El Sol and other radio editorial teams in the DR before taking up the post of press aide at the Dominican consulate in New York. He later joined Radio Wado as an editor, where he still works in the morning hours. More recently he became chief news editor at Telemundo. Lewis and his colleagues on the program "Telenoticias" have been nominated for their January 22, 1998 broadcast.Anthony P?rez worked for many years at the Dominican Union of Catholic Broadcasters (Uni?n Dominicana de Emisoras Cat?licas –UDECA) in La Vega before emigrating to New York. He presently works for Spanish-language broadcaster Univisi?n. He – along with collaborators Adriana Saldarriage and H?ctor Moya — has been nominated in the category "Outstanding Crime Programming" for their November 1977 series "Laberinto azul" ("Blue Labyrinth").
