Tania Tinoco

On January 29, 2015, Tinoco was presented with the Eugenio Espejo National Journalism Prize by the National Union of Ecuadorian Journalists (Spanish: Unión Nacional de Periodistas del Ecuador; UNP) in the television category, for the documentary titled Los niños de Génova.

In 1994 her father died, followed six months later by Alberto Borges, who had been her companion on the news for eight years.

On May 30, 1992, Tinoco married Bruce Hardeman, a Swiss businessman with whom she has two children.

In 1986, Nila Velásquez, then director of the Sunday newscast and current opinion editor of the newspaper El Universo, recommended to Alberto Borges [es] that he choose Tania to read the news. Thus she became part of the evening news show Telemundo, alongside Borges.

In December 1983, at age 20, with the help of the director of her college who recommended her to the Human Resources manager of Ecuavisa, she was brought on by the channel to work in filing.

Tania Tinoco (born August 2, 1963) is an Ecuadorian journalist, author, television producer, director, TV and radio presenter, reporter, interviewer, and opinion leader. For more than 30 years she has been known as the host of the Ecuavisa nightly newscast, Telemundo.

Tania Tinoco was born in Machala on August 2, 1963. At the age of 11, together with her father Colón Tinoco, she went to live in Guayaquil, where she studied at the Unidad Educativa Bilingüe [es] de La Inmaculada.