| Zugey Lamela | |
| Birth Date: | 24 March 1982 |
| Alma Mater: | University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus (BA) |
| Occupation: | Journalist, news presenter |
| Employer: | WLII (Univision) (2004–2014) WKAQ-TV (Telemundo) (2014–present) |
| Known For: | Investigative journalism |
| Awards: | Suncoast Emmy Award (2019) |
Zugey Lamela (born March 24, 1982) is a Puerto Rican journalist and news presenter. She is the anchor of the investigative news program, Telemundo Responde. In 2019, Lamela won a Suncoast Emmy Award for her investigative reporting.
Lamela completed a degree in journalism at University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus.[1]
Lamela worked as a journalist at Univision Puerto Rico from 2004 until she dismissed in 2014. She began two days later as a television reporter at Telemundo Puerto Rico.[2] She is the news anchor of the investigative news program, Telemundo Responde.[3] In May 2019, reporter Jorge Rivera Nieves joined Lamela as co-anchor of the night edition of Telenoticias PR.[4]
On March 30, 2020, the Governor of Puerto Rico, Wanda Vázquez Garced ended a lengthy and highly publicized interview with Lamela when she was questioned about recent staff dismissals and funding concerns at the Puerto Rico Department of Health.[5]
Lamela and her coworker, journalist Walter Soto León, began dating on June 21, 2014.[6] They were engaged in London in March 2015.[7] [8] Lamela and Soto León married on October 4, 2018 at the Hotel El Convento.[9] [10] They honeymooned in Dubai.
In 2019, Lamela and Millie Jiménez were nominated for the business/consumer category of the Suncoast Regional Emmy Awards for their work, "Pesadilla en el 855."[11] She won the Suncoast Emmy Award for her reporting of "Gabinetes que Almacenan Esquema Familiar" on Telmundo Responde.[12]