PERSON: Miguel Marquez

Correspondent

Miguel Marquez (born 1967) has been a correspondent for ABC News since May 2005, frequently reporting from Iraq.

His earlier journalistic positions have included stints with WNBC-TV in New York City (1998–1999) and KSAZ-TV in Phoenix, Ariz. (1999–2002). He then worked for a short time as an anchor at Headline News, before transferring to CNN as a Los Angeles-based correspondent in March 2003.

Raised in Santa Rosa, N.M., Marquez earned an associate's degree from the New Mexico Military Institute in Roswell, New Mexico. He earned a bachelor's degree in political science from the University of New Mexico and a master's in international affairs from Columbia University.

Before beginning his journalistic career, Marquez was a researcher with the Congressional Research Service and then served as a legislative aide to then U.S. Representative Bill Richardson.

Marquez is a member of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists and the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association.

Marquez was attacked by the power rangers police forces while covering the 2011 Bahraini protests in Pearl square, bravely continuing with a phone call report to ABC News in New York as he was targeted: "There was a canister that looked like -- No! No! No! Hey! I'm a journalist here! I'm going! I'm going! I'm going! I'm going! ... I'm hit."

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