Global InformationLilia Luciano information
Lilia Luciano | |
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| Born | October 12, 1984 San Juan, Puerto Rico |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | University of Miami |
| Occupation(s) | Journalist, columnist, film producer |
| Years active | 2004 - present |
| Website | lilialuciano.com |
Lilia Luciano (born October 12, 1984) is a journalist, filmmaker, podcaster and public speaker born and raised in Puerto Rico. She is currently a national correspondent and anchor at CBS News based in New York[1] and host of the iHeart Radio podcast, El Flow.[2] Before CBS News she worked as the investigative reporter at ABC 10 in Sacramento[3] and was the chief investigative correspondent on Discovery Channel's Border Live.[4] Her coverage of the mass shooting in Uvalde, Texas earned her and her CBS News team an Emmy Nomination for Outstanding Breaking News Coverage in 2023.[5]
In 2019, she was awarded a Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism as a special commendation for enterprise for her four-part documentary series, Puerto Rico Rises, which she directed and produced for ABC Sacramento, a TEGNA station.[6] She has also won five Regional Emmy Awards.[7] In 2018, her coverage of the Northern California Wildfires of 2018 received a regional Edward R. Murrow Award for Continuous Coverage.[8] Luciano has won four Regional Emmy Awards. In 2019, she won the Emmy for her special TEGNA series "Crisis at the Border," and for her team's coverage of the Northern California Wildfires.[9] In 2018, she won for California Wildfires coverage and for her documentary Puerto Rico Rises.[10] In 2013, Luciano was also awarded GLAAD's Outstanding Digital Journalism Article media award for her coverage of homophobia in U.S. Hispanic media.[11][12][13][14]
Before CBS News Luciano worked as investigative reporter at ABC 10 in Sacramento, California.[15] She is the director and producer of Wars of Others, an HBO Latino documentary film about the consequences of the U.S. War on Drugs on Colombian farmers[16] and the founder of CoInspire, an interview series about entrepreneurship in partnership with Rokk3r Labs.[17] She has worked as a host and contributor at various Vice platforms in English and Spanish.[18][19] Previously, she worked as a national news correspondent for NBC News's The Today Show, Nightly News with Brian Williams and MSNBC.[20] She is a TEDx speaker[21] and contributing columnist for HuffPost writing both in English and Spanish about issues concerning the Hispanic community,[22] the War on Drugs[23] and Human Rights.[24] She servers the advisory council[25] of United Nations Foundation's Girl Up initiative. She has served as a moderator at the Oslo Freedom Forum Human Rights conferences since 2016.[26]
- ^ "Lilia Luciano Named CBS News Correspondent in Los Angeles". May 28, 2021.
- ^ "Podcast Spotlight: Looking for a New Show to Listen To? Here's What's New in Podcasts This Week!".
- ^ "Lilia Luciano". KXTV.
- ^ Petski, Denise (November 2, 2018). "Discovery Greenlights 'Border Live' Reality Show Set At U.S.-Mexico Border".
- ^ "The 44th News & Documentary Nominations – The Emmys". theemmys.tv. July 27, 2023. Retrieved August 15, 2023.
- ^ Walter Cronkite Awards for Excellence in Television Political Journalism
- ^ https://emmysf.tv/files/2020/06/Emmy20-Recipient-Press-Release.pdf [bare URL PDF]
- ^ "Murrow Award Confirms ABC10's Commitment to Sonoma Wildfire Victims". KXTV. April 26, 2018.
- ^ https://emmysf.tv/files/2019/06/Emmy-2019-Recipient-Press-Release.pdf [bare URL PDF]
- ^ "47th Annual NORTHERN CALIFORNIA AREA EMMY® AWARD NOMINATIONS ANNOUNCED" (PDF). Emmy 2018. May 29, 2018.
- ^ "'Smash,' 'Amazing Race' Win GLAAD Awards". The Hollywood Reporter. March 16, 2013. Retrieved August 31, 2019.
- ^ "Lilia Luciano Gana Premio GLAAD Blog Tolerancia". Huffington Post. March 17, 2013.
- ^ "Lilia Luciano Defended Human Rights As Speaker In "SIME"". LatinWe. August 7, 2015.
- ^ "Nexus Global Youth Summit, Nexus Program Brief" (PDF). New York. July 22, 2015. Archived from the original (PDF) on July 25, 2015. Retrieved December 31, 2015.
- ^ "Lilia Luciano". ABC10 KXTV. May 4, 2017.
- ^ "Premiere of Wars of Others, First HBO Documentary Completely Filmed in Colombia". Proimágenes Colombia. July 25, 2017.
Elizabeth Gray and Lilia Luciano were producers for LatinWE
- ^ "Rokk3r Labs, journalist Lilia Luciano launch Coinspire, a video series with groundbreaking entrepreneurs". The Starting Gate. Miami Herald. August 7, 2015.
- ^ "Lo último de Lilia Lucianoe". Vice News. 2015.
- ^ Luciano, Lilia (August 29, 2015). "Oil And Water, Louisiana's Coastal Crisis" (Video). YouTube. Vice News.
- ^ "Lilia Luciano Joins NBC News as Miami-Based Correspondent". NBC Press release. NBCUniversal. October 11, 2010. Archived from the original on March 11, 2012. Retrieved May 3, 2012.
- ^ "Ponentes TEDxManagua 2013". TEDxManagua. June 9, 2013.
- ^ "Operación Tolerancia: la lucha contra la homofobia en los Medios Hispanos". The Huffington Post. December 10, 2012.
- ^ "Wars of Others". The Huffington Post. December 5, 2012.
- ^ "Lilia Luciano bio". The Huffington Post.
- ^ "Advisory Board - Girl Up". Girl Up. Retrieved August 7, 2015.
- ^ "2017 Oslo Freedom Forum Recap" – via www.youtube.com.