Mexican News Anchor Jacobo Zabludovsky Dead at 87
Zabludovsky had a brain hemorrhage while at a hospital in Mexico City. He was taken there Tuesday due to reported dehydration.
As the anchor of Televisa’s 24 Horas, Zabludovsky was considered one of the most influential television journalists in Mexico, interviewing the likes of Salvador Dali andChe Guevara between the years of 1971 to 1998. He was pro-government, defending the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI).
“Those were times of a single party, a single television network,” said Joaquin Lopez-Doriga, Televisa’s current leading news anchor.
Prior to his journalism career, Zabludovsky was a lawyer and after he left Televisa, he was a radio news anchor.
He was survived by his wife and three children. His funeral, according to Jewish custom, was held immediately after his death Thursday.
