Telemundo has rehired Gemma García to lead its network news division.
In her new role as executive vice president of news, she’ll oversee Noticias Telemundo’s news programming across all platforms, editorial units, digital news properties, news gathering and bureaus in the United States and Latin America. She’ll also lead coverage of the 2024 U.S. presidential election and the production of election-focused news specials.
She replaces Patsi Loris, who exited the company in mid-January.
García, who left Telemundo in 2023, returns to the U.S. network after a brief stint at Radio Televisión Española’s OTT media service RTVE Play.
García was previously Telemundo’s SVP of digital news. From 2019 to 2022, she was VP for network and digital news.
During her previous tenure, she helped develop and launch news franchises and initiatives, including environmental reporting unit Planeta Tierra, and Axios Latino, a Latino issues newsletter published in English and Spanish in partnership with Axios.
García first joined Noticias Telemundo in 2016 as executive producer of “Noticias Telemundo” from Spanish television broadcaster TVE, where she had worked as chief correspondent in New York, Italy, and North Africa, moving up to management as deputy head of TVE’s news department.