Jacobo Zabludovsky Kraveski was a Mexican journalist.
14 Facts About Jacobo Zabludovsky
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Jacobo Zabludovsky was the first anchorman in Mexican television and his TV news program, 24 Horas was for decades regarded as the most important in the country.
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Jacobo Zabludovsky was the brother of Abraham Zabludovsky, a famous architect.
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Jacobo Zabludovsky was a well known anchor man hosting 24 Horas, the main news program on the popular Televisa network between 1970 and 1998.
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Jacobo Zabludovsky claimed that his son had been overlooked for the position of night time news anchor and that he was resigning out of solidarity with him.
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Jacobo Zabludovsky was one of the few Mexicans reporting in Cuba the day Fidel Castro entered Havana in 1959 during the overthrow of the Batista dictatorship and reported from his car phone, and reported on the 1985 earthquake that destroyed several parts of Mexico City.
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Jacobo Zabludovsky interviewed many notable people, including President Ernesto Zedillo, Salvador Dali and Maria Felix.
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Jacobo Zabludovsky hosted the newscast until June 22,2015, being hospitalized shortly after.
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Jacobo Zabludovsky returned to television in 2012 as part of ESPN Deportes and ESPN Mexico's coverage of the 2012 Summer Olympics, he was part of the network's coverage of the 2013 FIFA Confederations Cup the following year.
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On June 2,2015, exactly one month before his death, Jacobo Zabludovsky covered the historic match between the Cuba national football team and the New York Cosmos in Havana, Cuba.
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Jacobo Zabludovsky is the subject of Molotov's song Que No Te Haga Bobo Jacobo, where he is accused of receiving bribes from Carlos Salinas and negotiating the news with the government.
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Jacobo Zabludovsky died of a stroke caused by dehydration at the age of 87 in Mexico City on the morning of July 2,2015.
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Jacobo Zabludovsky was buried at Mexico City's Israelite Cemetery that afternoon.
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Jacobo Zabludovsky is survived by his wife Sara and three children.