John Quiñones is an American television journalist and host widely recognized for his long career with ABC News. He was born in San Antonio, Texas, and grew up in a working-class Mexican American family. As a child, he worked alongside his parents in migrant farm labor before pursuing higher education. He attended St. Mary’s University and later earned a graduate degree from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.

Quiñones began his broadcasting career as a radio news editor at KTRH in Houston. He later moved to KPRC-TV as an anchor and reporter, before joining WBBM-TV in Chicago, where he won two local Emmy Awards for a documentary on undocumented Mexican immigrants. In 1982, he joined ABC News as a general assignment correspondent based in Miami, becoming the network’s first Latino correspondent. Over the next two decades, he reported for World News Tonight, 20/20, Nightline, Good Morning America, and Primetime.

In 2008, he became the creator and host of What Would You Do?, a hidden-camera series that tests how ordinary people respond to challenging situations. The show has aired on ABC for seventeen seasons, making Quiñones one of the most recognizable figures on broadcast television.