Francisco Villalobos
Photojounralist. Anchor/Reporter. Gulf Coast/U.S. Mexico Border Correspondent.
FRANCISCO VILLALOBOS LIMON,
INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT. PHOTO JOURNALIST. ANCHOR. REPORTER. AVIATOR.
Born April 15th, 1974 in Mexico City, Mexico. Considers Mexico City and, since 1984, Santa Ana, California his home towns.
EDUCATION: AA Political Science Costa Mesa, CA 1998. Naval Science & Naval Aviation Cadet NTC San Diego, CA 1992. NASA Zero Gravity Certified. Houston, Texas. 2008.
ORGANIZATIONS: Houston Hispanic Journalist Association. TELETON, Mexico.
SPECIAL HONORS:
First Hispanic journalist to interview President Elect Barack Obama. Dallas. 2008.
Second Individual in history to on camera, interview NASA Astronaut, Apollo XI Commander, Neil Armstrong.
First Latin American, to interview NASA Astronaut, Apollo VIII and Apollo XIII James Lovell.
First Spanish Speaking Special Investigation series of NASA’s Zero Gravity Simulator April 2008.
First Reporter to achieve 9.8G's in an F16 Jet Fighter. USAF Thunderbirds. October 2010.
Live On Air Aviation Expert. September 11th 2001 Attacks. September 2001.
American Legion Medal for Academic Excellence 1992.
Ganate el Futuro con Pepsi National Speech Contest Winner. 1992.
Best Platoon Commander US Navy NTC San Diego, CA. 1992.
Representative journalist for Houston, TX at the 35qnta. Conferencia Informativa del IFE. Mexico City, Mexico. 2007.
EXPERIENCE: Fifteen years experience on air reporter and aviation expert. Trilingual, Bicultural, forward thinking, forward looking, professional, with a proven record of accomplishment and establishing long lasting business, and personal relations throughout the world. Specialized in Latin American-US relations. Produced number of news reports on the intimate relation and coexistence codependency of the United States of America and its neighbors to the south. Fluent in Spanish, French and English. Technically proficient in commercial and military aviation. Consistently assumes responsibility to create, propose and complete projects and production of compelling, accurate, current news stories; for the world’s largest, most watched Spanish television network: Noticieros Televisa. Photojournalist. Editor (Adobe Premiere Pro 2.0, 4.0 & Final Cut).
16 contactsU.S./ Mexico Border Contributor and Correspondent., CNN, CNN International, CNN en Espanol, CNN Radio
In charge of producing, and promoting interesting and compelling, news worthy stories to CNN's bureau at CNN domestic, international, espanol, and Radio.
Live interventions both in English and Spanish.
Planned, Coordinated, single handedly created and now manage the U.S. Gulf Coast Bureau for Televisa Deportes. Dramatically reduced budget costs by implementing FTP system; in lieu of conventional via satellite
transmissions of none live stories. From scratch, built a contact base, that has produced compelling, never before aired stories in Telvisa Deportes.
These include:
-Hugo Sanchez. -Barry Bonds. -Sammy Sosa. -Rafael Marquez. -Ronaldinho. -Lionel Messi -Kobe Bryant.-Claudio Suarez. -Oscar “Conejo” Perez. -Yao Ming. -Oscar de la Hoya. -Shaq O’Neal -Cuauhtémoc Blanco. -Craig Biggio. -Oswaldo Sanchez. -Memo Ochoa. -Landon Donovan. -USMNT Coach Bob Bradley. –MMNT Coach Javier Aguirre. -Peyton Manning. -Mark Sanchez.
-Coverage of Mexico's National Soccer Team's U.S. Tours.
-Coverage of CONCACAF's World Cup Qualifyers.
-Coverage of CONCACAF Gold Cup Tournaments. 2007, 2009, 2011.
-All Interliga Tournaments.
-All Superliga.
Planned, Coordinated, single handedly created and now manage the U.S. Gulf Coast Bureau for Noticieros Televisa. Dramatically reduced budget costs by implementing FTP system; in lieu of conventional via satellite transmissions of none live stories. From scratch, built a contact base, that has produced compelling, never before aired stories in Noticieros Televisa.
These include:
-Second Reporter in History to Interview NASA Astronaut, Apollo XI Commander Neil Armstrong.
-First Hispanic to interview NASA Astronaut Apollo VIII and XIII Commander, Capt Jim Lovell.
-First Hispanic Spanish Speaking Reporter to Interview President Elect Obama.
-First Hispanic to Produce Day in the Life inside NASA’s Zero Gravity Simulator and fly inside it.
-First reporter to pull 9.8 G’s inside an F16 Fighter Jet. USAF Thunderbirds Exhibition squadron.
-1st Live Launch Coverage from inside NASA’s Training Facility. JSC
-Live coverage and aviation consulting of the September 11th 2001 Attacks.
-Exclusive: A Day in the Life of an Astronaut from the cockpit of Space Shuttle Atlantis Houston, TX
-Orientation Flight through Hurricane Dean with the USAF’s Hurricane Hunters. Biloxy. MS
-Team coverage of the Democratic Presidential Debates. Miami, FL; Austin, TX; Los Angeles, CA.
-2006 & 2007 May Day Marches. Texas.
-2010 Immigration Bus Convoy; Washington, D.C.
-Live Coverage of Hurricanes Katrina, Rita, Dolly, Gustav, & Ike.
-Danger in the Skies: General Aviation. Houston, TX. –The Living Border; San Ysidro, CA.
1998 - 2004On Air Aviation Consultant. Civil and Military Aviation Expert.