Daniel Coronell

Daniel Coronell is a Colombian journalist and VP of News of Univision network in the United States. He has also been editor in chief of the Colombian national newscasts Noticias Uno, NTC Noticias and Noticias RCN. He has been a TV journalist since the beginning of his career. He has served as general coordinator for the national newscasts Noticiero de las 7 and Telenoticiero del Mediodía, editor of the national newscast Noticiero Nacional and editor in chief of the TV programs Protagonista and Magazín 7:30.

Education and career

Coronell graduated from high school at the Colegio Mayor de Nuestra Señora del Rosario in Bogotá and majored in journalism at the Universidad Externado de Colombia. He specialized in Switzerland and Spain.

He also writes an opinion column for the weekly news magazine Semana. He has taught at the Javeriana and Externado de Colombia universities and currently he is a member of the teaching staff for the Masters Program on Journalism at the Universidad de los Andes. He is a senior research fellow at Stanford University and senior visiting scholar at the University of California at Berkeley.

Exile and return

On August 2005 he had to go into exile with his wife, journalist and anchorwoman María Cristina Uribe, and their daughter. His loved ones had been persistently threatened through phone calls, funeral wreaths and anonymous e-mails.

Coronell and his family (his wife was the presenter of the newscast he then directed) decided to come back to Colombia on July 2007, where a few months later, as a result of his columns and TV reports critical of President Uribe's government, he had an improvised argument with the latter on-the air, through La FM, a national radio network.

Awards

Coronell has been awarded the prestigious National Journalism Award Simón Bolívar on six occasions:

• 1987: Best TV Chronicle
• 1989: Best Journalistic Report
• 1992: Best Cultural Report
• 2007: Best Opinion Column
• 2008: Best TV News Follow-up Report and Best Investigative Report for TV

In 2009 he was granted the highest award for a TV investigative report by the Fundación Nuevo Periodismo Iberoamericano - Cemex, for "Un crimen casi perfecto" (An Almost Perfect Crime) together with a team of journalists from Noticias Uno. The program was broadcast in 2007.

See also

• Noticias Uno

References

External links

• Daniel Coronell's column in Semana magazine
• Journalist forced to leave the country because of threats
• "I rather leave than remain silent"
• Official Home Page for Daniel Coronell

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