Hawaii News Now welcomes new weekend anchor Annalisa Burgos

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) – Annalisa Burgos is Hawaii Information Now’s new weekend anchor, and also will report on points throughout the islands and interview newsmakers in the course of the week.

For greater than 22 years, Annalisa has coated information, enterprise and way of life in Los Angeles, New York Metropolis, Manila, Singapore, and different cities throughout Asia and the US.

Annalisa additionally teaches information reporting on the College of Hawaii at Manoa. She was a 2019 Jefferson Fellow of the East-West Middle, and studied immigration coverage in Hawaii, Korea, the Philippines and Australia.

Earlier than shifting to Honolulu, Annalisa was information anchor and managing editor on the ABS-CBN Information Channel, a global cable community primarily based within the Philippines and broadcast worldwide as The Filipino Channel. She coated the Duterte administration and native and worldwide politics and hosted a preferred “Meals Diplomacy” section, the place she dined with ambassadors and mentioned tradition and geopolitics.

Previous to that, she was an anchor and correspondent for Channel NewsAsia, a regional cable community primarily based in Singapore, and traveled throughout Asia for her weekly meals and journey sequence “What’s Cooking.”

Earlier than shifting to Asia, Annalisa labored in New York as an anchor, reporter and digital editor for main media firms, together with Forbes, CNBC, HGTV, and Bloomberg, and commenced her profession as a newspaper reporter.

She advocates for the Filipino neighborhood as a board member for the Filipino Younger Leaders Program and helps youth and ladies empowerment. She’s initially from Los Angeles and graduated from UCLA and Columbia College’s Graduate Faculty of Journalism.

Join with Annalisa on Twitter and Instagram @annalisaburgos, fb.com/AnnalisaBurgosHNN and linkedin.com/in/annalisaburgos.

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