{"id":1499,"date":"2011-10-06T04:02:26","date_gmt":"2011-10-05T18:02:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/?p=1499"},"modified":"2011-10-06T04:02:26","modified_gmt":"2011-10-05T18:02:26","slug":"up-alumna-newest-news-anchor-in-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/?p=1499","title":{"rendered":"UP alumna newest news anchor in New York"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Frances Rivera<\/strong> has joined New York&#8217;s WPIX Morning News on Ch. 11. She was a popular anchor at NBC-affiliate WHDH-TV (7) in Boston,  <\/p>\n<p>The University of the Philippines alumna now grace the television screens of viewers in New York and New Jersey.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Rivera, an Emmy Award winner, cited personal reasons for giving up her high-profile job in Boston, where she is considered a stylish fashionista.<\/p>\n<p>She said she wants her 11-month-old daughter Tessa to be close to her mother and brother, who live in New Jersey.<\/p>\n<p>Rivera&#8217;s work had been honored by the prestigious Emmy Award from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (New England chapter).<\/p>\n<p>Rivera was only three when she and her family, including two brothers, immigrated to Austin, and later to Dallas, Texas.<\/p>\n<p>She returned to the Philippines to finish her studies and earned a degree in Journalism from UP Diliman.<\/p>\n<p>She returned to the US after graduation and worked with KWTV (CBS) in Oklahoma City. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Frances Rivera has joined New York&#8217;s WPIX Morning News on Ch. 11. She was a popular anchor at NBC-affiliate WHDH-TV (7) in Boston, The University of the Philippines alumna now grace the television screens of viewers in New York and New Jersey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1499"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1499\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}