Patricia Janiot is president of the Colombianitos foundation, which helps children who are victims of the Colombian armed conflict. Janiot studied at the Universidad de la Sabana situated in Bogota, where she received her bachelor’s degree in journalism and social communications. The Universidad de La Sabana (Spanish: Universidad de La Sabana), is a Colombian private higher education institution founded in 1979. It is located in the municipality of Chía, 7 km north of Bogotá. She also studied broadcasting, radio, and television production at the Colegio Superior de Telecomunicaciones situated in Bogotal. She speaks both English and Spanish fluently. She got her degree in English at Cambridge University. The University of Cambridge is the second-oldest university in the English-speaking world and is regarded as one of the world's top five universities.

Profession

Initially, Patricia took up interior designing as her career. But she was more interested in journalism due to her ethnic background that took her to various places in America and Europe. She did an internship in journalism and began her career at CNN in the year 1992. Cable News Network (CNN) is an American basic cable and satellite television news channel owned by the Turner Broadcasting System, a division of Time Warner. CNN was founded in 1980 by American media proprietor Ted Turner as a 24-hour cable news channel. Upon its launch, CNN was the first television channel to provide 24-hour news coverage,and was the first all-news television channel in the United States. So she thought CNN is her best platform to prove herself as a journalist. At the beginning, she was the anchor for the show Noticiero Telemundo CNN, which was a very famous show in CNN and it has been widely seen by people in the state. She later shifted to CNN International as anchor.