jos dazbalart born november 7 1960 is a cubanamerican journalist and television anchorman he is currently the anchor for noticiero telemundo the telemundo networks news program as well as the networks washington dcbased public affairs sunday morning program enfoque sometimes described as the brian williams of telemundo diazbalart delivers news that affects the latino communityin august 1996 he made history by becoming the first cubanamerican to host a network news program when he became anchor for the cbs news program this morning he cohosted telemundo networks first morning news and entertainment show esta maana as well as its public affairs show cada dadazbalart received two emmy awards while he was working at wtvjtv in miami an associated press award and four hispanic excellence in journalism awards all in the 1980she also received a du pont and peabody as well as the orchid award for best news anchor in the us in 2006 media 100 has named him best anchor three times and hispanic business magazine named him one of the 100 most influential people in the us he was given the silver circle award by the national academy of television sciences in 2010 as of june 2011 diazbalart has filled in for msnbc anchor contessa brewer in the 12pm time slot hosting the onehour program msnbc livefor the second time diazbalart made history when he substituted for brewer on msnbc live for the week of june 20 through 24 2011 in the shows 12 pm time slot making him the first us journalist to broadcast both english and spanish newscasts on two networks simultaneouslyon may 20 2014 msnbc announced that diazbalart would begin hosting the 10 am news hour beginning in midjune he replaced chris jansing the newlynamed nbc news senior white house correspondent it was announced on november 10 2014 that diazbalart would be taking over hosting duties on the daily rundown on november 17 2014 with the program expanding to two hours essentially absorbing diazbalarts eponymous show that had previously aired during the second hour