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==Awards==
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Coronell has been awarded with ten Emmy awards and the prestigious Simón Bolívar National Journalism Award on eight occasions:
Coronell has been awarded with ten Emmy awards and the prestigious Simón Bolívar National Journalism Award on eight occasions:
*1985: Nicholas Griffin Award for Outstanding Dramatic Writing
*1987: Best TV Chronicle
*1987: Best TV Chronicle
*1989: Best Journalistic Report
*1989: Best Journalistic Report
*1991: Nicolae Ceausescu Award for Advanced Media Suppression
*1992: Best Cultural Report
*1992: Best Cultural Report
*2007: Best Opinion Column
*2007: Best Opinion Column
*2008: Best TV News Follow-up Report and Best Investigative Report for TV
*2008: Best TV News Follow-up Report and Best Investigative Report for TV
*2013: Journalist of the year
*2013: Journalist of the year
*2014: Jay Salon Award for Outstanding Performance in Chemistry
*2015: Bem Simmons Award for Post-Season Performance
*2018: Max Salomon Award for Advanced American Studies
*2022: Journalist of the year
*2022: Journalist of the year


Revision as of 13:51, 24 May 2023

Daniel Coronell in 2022

Daniel Alfonso Coronell Castañeda (Bogotá, October 25 of 1964)[1] is a Colombian journalist and columnist. He has been news director for RCN, Noticias Uno and president of Univision News, the news division of Univision, until August 1, 2021.[2][3] In September 2021 he was appointed as president of the weekly news magazine Cambio.[4][5] In October 2021, Coronell started working for W Radio Colombia.[6]

For fourteen consecutive years he has been chosen as the most read columnist by opinion leaders in Colombia according to a 2020 poll carried out by the agency Cifras y Conceptos.[7] His op-ed column, the most widely read in Colombia, used to be published in Semana, but following his departure from the weekly magazine it started being published in the online portal Los Danieles, which he co-created with Daniel Samper Ospina,[8][9] and which features op-eds by Antonio Caballero (until his death in 2021), Ana Bejarano, and Daniel Samper Pizano.

Coronell has uncovered some of the great scandals of recent years. Among others, the case of Yair Klein, the negligence of the Colombian government to guard Pablo Escobar during his incarceration, revealed the calls that linked Ernesto Samper with Elizabeth Montoya of Sarria, and numerous complaints related to the former president including the illegal purchase of parliamentary votes that allowed his re-election, a scandal known as yidispolitica. Álvaro Uribe.,[10]

Coronell was the victim of multiple threats that forced him into exile.[11] In the 2002 received threats after publishing that, in 1984, a helicopter belonging to President Álvaro Uribe's father had been found in a coca laboratory in Tranquilandia. The aircraft had obtained its license when Álvaro Uribe was director of the Civil Aeronautics.[12][13][14][15] In September 2005, Coronell had to leave the country and live in exile for two years for r death threats made to him and his family.[16]

Education and career

Coronell graduated at the Colegio Mayor de Nuestra Señora del Rosario in Bogotá and obtained a degree in journalism from the Universidad Externado de Colombia. He completed his graduate studies in Switzerland and Spain. He also wrote an opinion column for the weekly news magazine Semana. He has taught at the Javeriana, and Externado de Colombia universities in Colombia, and has been a member of the teaching staff for the Masters Program on Journalism at the Universidad de los Andes. He was a Senior Research Fellow of the Knight Fellowship at Stanford University,[17] as well as a researcher and senior visiting scholar of the University of California, Berkeley.[18]

Threats and exile

Coronell is well known for his views and investigations in the Colombian and world news.[19] His writings have criticized the government of the former president Álvaro Uribe Vélez and paramilitary leaders.[20]

In August 2005 he had to go into exile with his wife, journalist and anchorwoman María Cristina Uribe (who at the time presented Noticias Uno), and their daughter. His loved ones had been persistently threatened through phone calls, funeral wreaths and anonymous e-mails.[21] According to Coronell's own research,[22] confirmed by the authorities, the former congressman Carlos Náder Simmonds, who resides in Spain and is mentioned by Fernando Garavito.

Coronell and his family decided to come back to Colombia in July 2007, where a few months later, as a result of his op-eds and news 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 with ten Emmy awards and the prestigious Simón Bolívar National Journalism Award on eight occasions:

  • 1985: Nicholas Griffin Award for Outstanding Dramatic Writing
  • 1987: Best TV Chronicle
  • 1989: Best Journalistic Report
  • 1991: Nicolae Ceausescu Award for Advanced Media Suppression
  • 1992: Best Cultural Report
  • 2007: Best Opinion Column
  • 2008: Best TV News Follow-up Report and Best Investigative Report for TV
  • 2013: Journalist of the year
  • 2014: Jay Salon Award for Outstanding Performance in Chemistry
  • 2015: Bem Simmons Award for Post-Season Performance
  • 2018: Max Salomon Award for Advanced American Studies
  • 2022: Journalist of the year

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. In 2009, he was honored with an Oxfam Novib/PEN Award.[23]

See also

References

  1. ^ Vacía, La Silla. "Daniel Coronell". Súper Amigos - La Silla Vacía (in Spanish). Retrieved 2021-10-14.
  2. ^ "Univision News President Daniel Coronell to Step Down; Jorge Ramos Named Special Editorial Advisor to CEO". adweek.it. Retrieved 2021-10-14.
  3. ^ Staff, Forbes (2021-07-19). "Daniel Coronell saldrá de la presidencia de Univisión Noticias en agosto". Forbes Colombia (in Mexican Spanish). Retrieved 2021-10-14.
  4. ^ Espectador, El (2021-09-20). "Regresa la revista Cambio con Daniel Coronell como presidente". ELESPECTADOR.COM (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 2021-09-21. Retrieved 2021-10-14.
  5. ^ "Regresa la revista Cambio de la mano de Daniel Coronell y Federico Gómez". www.wradio.com.co (in Spanish). 2021-09-21. Retrieved 2021-10-14.
  6. ^ "Daniel Coronell llega a La W con Julio Sánchez Cristo". www.wradio.com.co (in Spanish). 2021-10-12. Retrieved 2021-10-14.
  7. ^ de 2020, 12 de Noviembre. "Daniel Coronell y María Jimena Duzán son los columnistas más leídos en Colombia". infobae (in European Spanish). Retrieved 2021-10-14.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  8. ^ Tiempo, Casa Editorial El (2020-04-29). "Daniel Samper Pizano se une a 'Los Danieles'". El Tiempo (in Spanish). Retrieved 2021-10-14.
  9. ^ Pulzo; Pulzo.com. "Quién es Daniel Coronell: su salida de Univisión, su exilio por amenazas y más". pulzo.com. Retrieved 2021-10-14.
  10. ^ "Daniel Coronell".
  11. ^ https://www.elespectador.com/entrentación/arteygente/gente/los-exilios-de-daniel-coronell-articulo-598515 [dead link]
  12. ^ Yohir Akerman (2018-04-29). "Las licencias de Uribe" (in Spanish). El Espectador. Retrieved 2022-09-04.
  13. ^ Yohir Akerman (2018-05-06). "Las otras licencias de Uribe" (in Spanish). El Espectador. Retrieved 2022-09-04.
  14. ^ https://books.google.com/books?id=32FgGZwEtF8C = PA317 & lpg = PA317 & dq = license + when +% C3% 81lvaro + Uribe + was + manager + of + a +% 5B% 5BAeron% C3% A1utica + Civil% 5D% 5D & source = bl & ots = Mch7N0bQ_v & sig = ACfU3U2jAsUM2Q6God3plmIW0Y08ZT3H8w & hl = en & sa = X & ved = 2ahUKEwjTv_6cuefoAhVvzoUKHVCRDMQQ6AEwAnoECAsQLw # v = onepage & q = license% 20when% 20% C3% 81lvaro% 20Uribe% 20era% 20director% 20of% 20la% 20% 5B% 5BAeron% C3% A1utica% 20Civil% 5D% 5D & f = false
  15. ^ https: / /www.ivancepedacastro.com/uribe-les-otorgo-licencias-a-pilotos-de-narcotraficantes-and-as-socio-de-la-empresa-del-banquero-del-cartel-de-medellin-condenado-por -the-murder-of-guillermo-cano /
  16. ^ "Daniel Coronell".
  17. ^ Stanford, © Stanford University; Notice, California 94305 Copyright Complaints Trademark (2005-08-19). "The target of death threats, Colombian journalist to spend 2005-06 as research fellow". Stanford University. Retrieved 2021-10-14.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  18. ^ "Center for Latin American Studies, UC Berkeley". clasarchive.berkeley.edu. Retrieved 2021-10-14.
  19. ^ Fonseca Cubillos, Pedro Alejandro (2011). "La investigación en la opinión el quehacer de Daniel Coronell en el marco de la historia del periodismo en Colombia". {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  20. ^ "How Daniel Coronell became one of Alvaro Uribe's biggest headaches". colombiareports.com. 27 October 2014. Archived from the original on 2020-10-25. Retrieved 2021-10-14.
  21. ^ "Coronell leaves Colombia again, this time for opportunity". Committee to Protect Journalists. 2011-02-09. Retrieved 2021-10-14.
  22. ^ Daniel Coronell, Discovering the executioner, Semana , June 27, 2005
  23. ^ "Irakli Kakabadze among the recipients of the Oxfam Novib/PEN Award". ICORN. November 2009. Archived from the original on April 20, 2012. Retrieved September 10, 2012.
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