MARTHA C. KATTAN

Martha C. Kattan is Univision’s Dallas affiliate News Director. She was born and raised in Mexico City. She began her journalism career 26 years ago in radio. She joined Univision in 1999. During her 7- year tenure, Kattan’s News Team has achieved record performance in A.C Nielsen’s Survey of the Dallas-Fort Worth Television Market. Under her leadership and supervision, the News Department has grown sizably in professional staff, with the launch of the first weekend Spanish Newscasts in July 2000.
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Among some of her accomplishments, In 2000, she was recognized for the Team’s Community Service, by receiving the DEA’s award for Community Service and nominated for the Attorney General’s Award in Washington DC. In 2005 she won her first Emmy® for directing and producing a 30minute special about the importance of the Latino Vote.

In 2002, joined the Lone Star Emmy® Chapter and was named to the Board of Governors, in representation of the Hispanic Media of Texas

In 1997 Kattan, experienced the joy and satisfaction of launching CNN En Español, 24 hour Spanish News Network, where as Supervising Producer, she had the fortune of working alongside experienced leaders and renowned Latin-American journalists.

Kattan is the proud and blessed mother of Yousef, Vianey and Nadia. She’s active in her church and enjoys going to the movies, the beach and spending time with her mother and father in San Antonio, Texas.

JEREMY DESEL

Jeremy Desel joined KHOU-TV as a general assignment reporter in April 1999. He works primarily on 11 News at 10.

Jeremy is a seven time regional Emmy® winner. Most recently honored with a 2003 Breaking News award reporting from the Eye of Hurricane Lili. In 2002 he recieved Suncoast Chapter Emmy®'s for Investigative, Feature, and General News reporting.

Also in 2002 the Houston Press Club named Jeremy Texas Television Reporter of the Year. He has won 36 Associated Press awards in Texas, Oregon, and Maine, 4 Dallas Press Club Katie awards, and helped win a National Edward R. Murrow award for Continuing Coverage in 1996. Desel's investigative work has led not only to awards but also led to two national product recalls of dangerous pet products.

Jeremy has covered a number of high profile stories for 11 News most recently the recovery of debris from the space shuttle Columbia in East Texas. He was also sent to Germany to cover the war in Iraq from the Landstuhl Regional Medical Center near Ramstein Air Base. He was the only local television reporter to report live during the arrival of PFC Jessica Lynch to the hospital complex. Desel spent six weeks, in November and December 2000, in Tallahassee, Florida covering the Florida election story. Others include the release of three American POW's in Germany, the American Airlines plane crash in Little Rock, Ark., the Wedgewood Church shooting in Fort Worth, serial killer Rafeal Resendiz-Ramirez, and the Texas A&M bonfire collapse.

Before coming to Texas, Jeremy worked in his home state of Oregon and in Maine. Desel received a Master of Arts degree in Mass Communication from Emerson College in 1994 and a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Pacific Lutheran University in 1991. This year PLU named Jeremy “Outstanding Recent Alumnus” for his contributions to television.