Miriam Hernandez
Miriam was born in Santa Barbara and raised in Santa Paula. When she was 12 years old, she got her first paying job writing a weekly youth column for the Santa Paula Daily Chronicle. In college, she studied anthropology and theater at UCLA, earning her Bachelor of Arts degree. She was awarded her master's degree in communications at the University of Minnesota.
Her television career was launched at the NBC affiliate in San Diego. She has worked in Los Angeles, Washington, D.C. and New York reporting for CNN, USA TODAY ON TV, WUSA and Good Morning America. She joined ABC7 in 1998.
Miriam has covered the Mexico City earthquake, political turmoil in Central America, and the Oklahoma City bombing. She was the first reporter allowed by the U.S. Marshal Service to take a TV camera behind the vaulted doors of the Federal Witness Protection Program.
Miriam was named by Hispanic Magazine as one of the top 100 women in communications. She's won several Valley Press awards and Emmy nominations.
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Contact:
ABC7 Broadcast Center
Attn: Miriam Hernandez
500 Circle Seven Drive
Glendale, CA 91201
818-863-7777
Archive
A question about graffiti, gangs and race appeared on an exam for a health science class at Cal State Long Beach, which has left students puzzled.
What was remarkable to passengers about Southwest flight 278 skidding off the runway at Hollywood Burbank Airport was how unremarkable it felt.
A Southwest flight rolled off the end of a runway at Hollywood Burbank Airport after wet conditions made for a tougher landing Thursday morning.
A woman was sentenced to 30 years to life in prison for a 2014 wrong-way crash that killed six people on the 60 Freeway.
Unsealed grand jury transcripts detail horrific abuse allegations against a Lancaster woman and her boyfriend in the death of her 10-year-old son.
