Cornell promoted to President of Univision News Division

Univision News announced the promotion of Daniel Coronell to president of News. He will continue to be based in Miami and report to Isaac Lee, Chief News and Digital Officer for UCI, and CEO of FUSION.

“Daniel is an exceptional editorial talent whose drive and instincts have elevated Univision’s newsroom to new levels of excellence,” said Lee. “He has been instrumental in driving innovation and the digital expansion of our news offering over the last five years.  I am confident that with his intimate understanding of our audiences we are best positioned to continue to inform and empower our audiences with best in class news offerings on all platforms.”

Coronell first joined the Univision News team in early 2011 as Vice President and News Director; in 2012 he was named Senior Vice President and Executive News Director, and in 2014 to his most recent position as Executive Vice President and Executive Director of News. Under his leadership, Univision News has been recognized with some of the most prestigious 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. He is an internationally renowned investigative journalist with over 20 years of experience in broadcast and print media in his native Colombia. He previously served as 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 numerous awards, including 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 de Colombia in Bogotá. Moreover, he has been a Senior Research Fellow at Stanford University and is a Senior Visiting Scholar at the University of California, Berkeley.