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WCVB’s Jorge Quiroga announces his retirement

The award-winning broadcast journalist joined Channel 5 in 1974.

Jorge Quiroga. Dina Rudick / The Boston Globe

By Dialynn Dwyer

Longtime WCVB reporter Jorge Quiroga announced Tuesday that he will retire from the station where he has worked for more than four decades at the end of the year. Quiroga, a general assignment reporter at Channel 5 who joined the station in 1974, made the announcement on Twitter as he reacted to being inducted into the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Boston chapter’s Silver Circle. “As I announce my retirement at end of 2018; nearly 45 yrs in 1 TV market at 1 station , it’s an honor to receive Silver Circle recognition from colleagues in broadcast industry,” he wrote.

Congratulations — on his retirement and the award — quickly poured in for the veteran reporter from colleagues, reporters at rival outlets, and viewers alike.

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“We are so proud to have worked alongside this talented journalist and to call him our friend! Jorge, you certainly deserve this honor!” his colleagues wrote through the station Twitter account.

“What?? Night shift won’t be the same,” wrote NBC10 Boston reporter Michael Rosenfield on Twitter. “I grew up watching you on tv and it’s been a thrill seeing you in action in the field. Congrats Jorge!!”

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