Joe Torres Biography
Joe Torres is a television personality serving as a news anchor and reporter for WABC-TV in New York. He co-anchors the weekend evening news editions of Eyewitness News This Weekend at 5, 6, and 11 o’clock. He also serves as host of ‘Tiempo’ which airs each Sunday morning at 11:30.
Joe Torres Age
Torres is 60 years old as of 2023. He was born on June 2, 1963, in Brooklyn, New York, United States.
Joe Torres Height
He is 5 feet 7 inches tall approximately 1.7 m or 170 cm.
Joe Torres Nationality
What nationality is Joe Torres? Joe 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 a graduate of John Jay High School in Cross River. After high school, Torres continued his education at SUNY Brockport, where he earned a B.S. in Communications.
Joe Torres Family
Joe was born in Brooklyn, New York. However, there is no information about his parents and siblings.
Joe Torres Wife
Is Joe Torres married? Yes, Joe is married to his wife Fran Torres. The couple has been married since August 31, 1991. They are 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
Joe 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 here in the nation’s #1 television market. Versatility is his strength. Crime, politics, religion, education, transportation, business, whatever the subject, Joe has covered it all with an engaging and energetic style that fellow New Yorkers have come to know and love.
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 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. Joe was also 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.
Joe 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. Joe 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. He 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 $50,000 – $110,500 at WABC.
Joe Torres Net Worth
He has an estimated net worth of $ 1 million – $ 5 million as of 2023 which he mainly accumulates through his successful journalism career.
