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Lucia Newman
Lucia Newman (born 18 February 1952 in London) is a broadcast journalist based in Santiago, Chile, currently working for Al Jazeera English. Previously, she was a long-standing reporter for CNN.
In 1991, she received the Maria Moors Cabot prize from Columbia University for contributing to "the advancement of press freedom and inter-American understanding".
In March 1997, Newman became the first United States journalist in 27 years to have permanent residence in Cuba. However, after Newman's first news broadcast, Ninoska Pérez Castellón criticised her for not interviewing people who were against the Cuban government. Pérez wanted Newman to show Cuba as a "normal place", not a "rogue nation".
The North-South Institute praised her reporting and wrote that because she knows several languages, "she can find out things others cannot". Newman is fluent in English, Spanish, Portuguese and French. Both parents spoke German, Russian, Spanish, English and French. In addition, her father spoke Japanese and Portuguese; her mother spoke Italian and Swedish.
Newman worked for CNN for 20 years and reported from countries throughout Latin America. In 1997 she became the first US media correspondent to be allowed to open a news bureau in Cuba, where she lived for nine years while also covering other parts of Latin America.
In 1987, she was in Panama, and on 16 September, the Panamanian government expelled her from the country after a mob saw her grinning during an interview with Manuel Noriega. Noriega called her a "disinformer".
She was a correspondent in Nicaragua during 1985 to 1989 and in Chile from 1989 to 1993. From 1993 to 1997, she was the head of bureau in Mexico.
In 2006, she left CNN for Al Jazeera English, in the run-up to its launch. She has been with the channel ever since. She is now the Latin America editor, based in Buenos Aires in Argentina, but also continues to appear regularly on-air.
Lucia Newman
Lucia Newman (born 18 February 1952 in London) is a broadcast journalist based in Santiago, Chile, currently working for Al Jazeera English. Previously, she was a long-standing reporter for CNN.
In 1991, she received the Maria Moors Cabot prize from Columbia University for contributing to "the advancement of press freedom and inter-American understanding".
In March 1997, Newman became the first United States journalist in 27 years to have permanent residence in Cuba. However, after Newman's first news broadcast, Ninoska Pérez Castellón criticised her for not interviewing people who were against the Cuban government. Pérez wanted Newman to show Cuba as a "normal place", not a "rogue nation".
The North-South Institute praised her reporting and wrote that because she knows several languages, "she can find out things others cannot". Newman is fluent in English, Spanish, Portuguese and French. Both parents spoke German, Russian, Spanish, English and French. In addition, her father spoke Japanese and Portuguese; her mother spoke Italian and Swedish.
Newman worked for CNN for 20 years and reported from countries throughout Latin America. In 1997 she became the first US media correspondent to be allowed to open a news bureau in Cuba, where she lived for nine years while also covering other parts of Latin America.
In 1987, she was in Panama, and on 16 September, the Panamanian government expelled her from the country after a mob saw her grinning during an interview with Manuel Noriega. Noriega called her a "disinformer".
She was a correspondent in Nicaragua during 1985 to 1989 and in Chile from 1989 to 1993. From 1993 to 1997, she was the head of bureau in Mexico.
In 2006, she left CNN for Al Jazeera English, in the run-up to its launch. She has been with the channel ever since. She is now the Latin America editor, based in Buenos Aires in Argentina, but also continues to appear regularly on-air.