Lilia Luciano Biography
Lilia Luciano is a journalist, filmmaker, podcaster, and public speaker who was born and raised in Puerto Rico. She currently works as a national correspondent and anchor for CBS News, based in New York, and is also the host of the iHeartRadio podcast El Flow.
Before joining CBS News, Luciano served as an investigative reporter at ABC 10 in Sacramento and as chief investigative correspondent for Discovery Channel’s Border Live. Her reporting on the mass shooting in Uvalde, Texas, earned her and the CBS News team an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Breaking News Coverage in 2023.
Lilia Luciano Age
Luciano is 41 years old as of 2026. He was born on 12 October 1984 in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Lilia Luciano Height
Luciano stands at a height of 5 feet 5 inches (1.65m).
Lilia Luciano Family
Luciano has not shared any information regarding his loving parents as of now, 2022. Nonetheless, we will update the site as soon as we get more intel from our trusted sources of information as soon as possible.
Lilia Luciano Wife
Luciano is married to Luis Alayo, a Catalan banker. The couple married on December 28, 2007. However, 18 months later, the couple divorced due to irreconcilable differences.
Lilia Luciano Education
Luciano interned with Telemundo at the University of Miami, where she created and hosted a finance and economics feature for Telemundo International. Luciano was employed by Univision Networks as a journalist and co-anchor for the evening broadcast En Vivo y Directo after graduating from The University of Miami.
Lilia Luciano Trayvon Martin Case
Luciano was one of the national television reporters covering the Trayvon Martin case in Sanford, Florida. After it was discovered that the audio portion of George Zimmerman’s 9-1-1 call, reporting a possible burglary, was edited in a way that made Zimmerman sound racist by making an unprompted statement that Martin was black instead of answering the 911 dispatcher’s questions, Luciano was fired from NBC News on May 2, 2012. NBC fired the producer in charge of editing the piece, as well as Luciano, for the oversight. The Today website erased all of Luciano’s reports on the Trayvon Martin case that contained the deceptive change.
NBC News has issued an apology for altering George Zimmerman’s 911 call in order to promote a false story. The edit was “a mistake, not a purposeful move to misrepresent the phone call,” according to the network. Zimmerman’s case against NBC and his appeal were both dismissed in Florida courts after a producer was fired.
Lilia Luciano Discovery Channel
She worked as a chief investigative journalist for the Discovery Channel’s Border Live show, where she embedded with communities and border enforcement organizations along the US-Mexico border. She was also the investigative reporter for TEGNA-owned ABC 10, a role that gained her regional and national journalism prizes. She looked into politics, crime, family court, immigration, housing, education, homelessness, police shootings, drug policy, wildfires, and other natural catastrophes, including a documentary about Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico that won an award.
Lilia Luciano Career
Lilia Luciano is a journalist, filmmaker, podcaster, and public speaker who was born and raised in Puerto Rico. She currently works as a national correspondent and anchor for CBS News, based in New York, and is also the host of the iHeartRadio podcast El Flow.
Before joining CBS News, Luciano served as an investigative reporter at ABC 10 in Sacramento and as chief investigative correspondent for Discovery Channel’s Border Live. Her reporting on the mass shooting in Uvalde, Texas, earned her and the CBS News team an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Breaking News Coverage in 2023.
In 2019, Luciano received a Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism, earning a special commendation for enterprise for Puerto Rico Rises, a four-part documentary series she directed and produced for ABC Sacramento, a TEGNA station. She has won multiple Regional Emmy Awards, including honors for her coverage of the Northern California wildfires and her TEGNA special series Crisis at the Border. In 2018, her wildfire reporting also received a regional Edward R. Murrow Award for Continuous Coverage. Earlier in her career, she earned a GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Digital Journalism Article in 2013 for her reporting on homophobia in U.S. Hispanic media.
Luciano is also the director and producer of Wars of Others, an HBO Latino documentary examining the impact of the U.S. War on Drugs on Colombian farmers, and the founder of CoInspire, an interview series on entrepreneurship created in partnership with Rokk3r Labs. She has worked as a host and contributor across multiple Vice platforms in both English and Spanish, and previously served as a national news correspondent for NBC News, reporting for Today, NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams, and MSNBC.
In addition to her reporting work, Luciano is a TEDx speaker and a contributing columnist for HuffPost, where she writes in both English and Spanish on issues affecting the Hispanic community, human rights, and the War on Drugs. She serves on the advisory council of the United Nations Foundation’s Girl Up initiative and has been a moderator at the Oslo Freedom Forum human rights conferences since 2016.
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