Lilia Luciano Biography
Lilia Luciano is a journalist, filmmaker, podcaster, and public speaker who has won numerous awards. She is presently a national correspondent for CBS News in Los Angeles, as well as the host of the El Flow iHeart Radio podcast.
Lilia Luciano Age
Luciano is 37 years old as of 2021. 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
Guerras Ajenas, an HBO Latin America documentary about the consequences of US drug policy in Colombia, was directed by Luciano. She has also worked as a host for Viceland’s World of Sports, Viceland’s Black Market Dispatches, and Vice News.
Luciano joined NBC News in December 2010 after working at Univision as a co-host of a live daily broadcast and a correspondent for the top-rated show Aqu y Ahora. She previously co-hosted Escandalo TV (Scandal TV), a fiery Spanish gossip show on TeleFutura Network, from 2006 to 2010. Luciano covered Hurricane Irene for NBC’s Nightly News with Brian Williams, Today Show, MSNBC, The Weather Channel, CNBC, and Telemundo from Nassau, Bahamas in August 2011.
She then moved on to report on the storm’s devastation in North Carolina. Luciano covered the Casey Anthony first-degree murder trial in Orlando, Florida for MSNBC and the Today Show in the summer of 2011. Throughout the six-week trial, Luciano reported live from the Orange County courthouse. She gave a special breaking news story on MSNBC at midnight on July 17 to announce Anthony’s release from prison. Luciano was the only national journalist from the major networks to cover the murder trial of Joran Van der Sloot in Lima, Peru, for both the Today Show and Telemundo in January 2012, securing exclusive interviews with the victim’s family and Lima government officials.
Luciano covered the first-degree murder trial of University of Virginia Lacrosse captain George Huguely, who was convicted in the death of his lover Yeardly Love, for Today, MSNBC, and Comcast Sports on February 22, 2012. Luciano has led CBS News’ coverage of the California and Oregon wildfires, BLM protests in Portland, immigration at the US-Mexico border, the deadly crowd surge at Travis Scott’s Astroworld Festival, the historic 2021 tornadoes in Kentucky, the oil spill in Southern California, and other national breaking news stories as a Los Angeles-based correspondent.
Interviews with EGOT winner Rita Moreno, basketball great Magic Johnson, and Oscar-winning director Jimmy Chin for CBS Mornings and CBS Sunday Morning are among her feature stories. Fighting for Paradise: The Future of Puerto Rico, a CBS News documentary streaming on Paramount Plus and CBSN, was similarly produced and hosted by Luciano.
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