Coronell promoted to EVP & Executive Director of News at Univision News

Univision News has announced that Daniel Coronell has been promoted to Executive Vice President and Executive Director of News. He will continue reporting directly to Isaac Lee, President of News & Digital at UCI, and CEO of Fusion.
 
This is the second promotion for Coronell since he joined Univision News in early 2011 as Vice President and News Director; in 2012 he was named Senior Vice President and Executive News Director. During his tenure, Univision News has been recognized with important awards for excellence in journalism, including the duPont Award, the Peabody Award, the Walter Cronkite Award, the Gracie Award, the IRE Award and two King of Spain International Journalism Awards, among others.
 
A renowned investigative journalist with over 20 years of experience in broadcast and print media in his native Colombia, Coronell was formerly the director of “Noticias Uno,” a national newscast airing on Colombia’s Canal Uno television network, and also directed national newscasts for RCN TV. Additionally, he is a regular columnist for the Colombian news and current affairs magazine, Semana.
 
Throughout his career, Coronell has been honored with Colombia’s prestigious Premio Nacional de Periodismo Simón Bolívar (Simón Bolívar National Journalism Award) on seven different occasions, the most recent of which was in 2013, when he won “Journalist of the Year.” In addition to his distinguished work in investigative journalism, he was a professor at Universidad Javeriana and Universidad Externado in Bogota. Moreover, he has been a Senior Research Fellow at Stanford University and is a Senior Visiting Scholar at the University of California, Berkeley.
 
“We are thrilled to have a journalist of Daniel’s stature and experience leading our newsroom and taking Univision News to new levels of excellence and innovation through the most reliable investigative reporting and an increasing focus on digital media,” said Isaac Lee. “Daniel has played a key role in the growth and success of Univision News during the past four years, and we are confident that he will continue to make invaluable contributions to Univision going forward.”