Joe Torres Biography
Joe Torres is a television personality who reports and anchors the weekend evening news for Eyewitness News on WABC-TV. He co-anchors the 5, 6, and 11 o’clock editions of Eyewitness News This Weekend. In addition, he is the author of Puerto Rican ancestry and he also serves as the host of ‘Tiempo’.
Joe Torres Age
Torres was born on June 2, 1963, in Brooklyn, New York, United States. He is 60 years old as of 2023.
Joe Torres Height
He is 5 feet 7 inches tall approximately 1.7 m or 170 cm.
Joe Torres Nationality
He holds American nationality.
Joe Torres Education
Torres attended P.S. 198 until the sixth grade when his family moved to Northern Westchester County. He is also a graduate of John Jay High School in Cross River and he earned a B.S. in Communications from SUNY Brockport.
Joe Torres Parents
There is no information about his parents. He hasn’t also disclosed whether he has any siblings.
Joe Torres Wife
Joe has been married to his lovely wife Fran Torres since August 31, 1991. The couple is blessed with two sons who are in their early twenties. Along with his wife and their two boys, Joe still lives in the town where he grew up.
Joe Torres WABC-TV
Joe reports and anchors the weekend evening news for Eyewitness News on WABC-TV. He joined the Eyewitness News team as a general assignment reporter in 1996. Throughout the last two decades, he has established himself as one of the premier street reporters in the nation’s #1 television market.
Perhaps most memorable for viewers has been Joe’s extensive coverage of Pope John Paul II, Benedict XVI, and Francis. Before the death of John Paul II, Joe followed the globe-trotting Pontiff on his trips to Cuba, Mexico, and the Holy Land, providing New Yorkers with local angles to worldly events. Joe was also at the Vatican for the Pope’s Silver Anniversary and for his death when millions flocked to Rome to say goodbye to the spiritual leader. In addition, Joe was at St. Peter’s Square in April of 2005 when the white smoke from the Sistine Chapel informed the world of the election of Pope Benedict XVI. Three years later Joe provided in-depth coverage of Pope Benedict’s visit to New York. He returned to the Vatican and St. Peter’s Square in March of 2013 for the historic election of Pope Francis, the church’s very first Pontiff from Latin America.
Two days a week Joe comes in from the street and heads to the anchor desk. Each Saturday and Sunday evening Joe serves as Co-Anchor of the 5, 6, and 11 o’clock editions of Eyewitness News This Weekend. He also serves as Host of ‘Tiempo,’ a 30-minute public affairs program aimed at the ever-growing Latino population in the New York metropolitan area. ‘Tiempo’ airs each Sunday morning at 11:30.
Joe’s distinctive storytelling ability garnered him a Peabody Award and the Edward R. Murrow Award for his reports on the world-changing events of September 11th. He also earned an Emmy Award for his coverage of the Greenpoint Gas Tank Implosions in 2001.
Joe started his television career in 1987 as an NBC Page in New York. His first reporting job was at WSAV-TV in Savannah, Georgia where he served as a general assignment reporter and beat reporter covering county government. Joe then moved to ABC affiliate WNEP-TV in Scranton/Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania to work as a Consumer Reporter, general assignment reporter, and Weekend Anchor. In 1992 Joe landed a job as the Jersey Shore correspondent for Disney/ABC-owned WPVI-TV in Philadelphia.
Joe Torres Salary
He earns an average annual salary of between $ 50,000 to $ 110,500 as a reporter and anchor at WABC-TV.
Joe Torres Net Worth
As of 2023, Joe has an estimated net worth of between $ 1 million to $ 5 million which he has mainly accumulated through his successful journalism career.
