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.

Career

Awards and acclaim 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 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. She is now the Latin America editor, based in Buenos Aires in Argentina, but also continues to appear regularly on-air.

In 2013 alone, she has conducted studio-interviews, for the series Talk to Al Jazeera, with the President of Uruguay and the former President of Chile and has presented, for the series Al Jazeera Correspondent, an extended piece of reportage on the curious institution that is the Colonia Dignidad, as well as conventional news-reporting, as a correspondent in several countries, plus live studio-links.

Personal life

Early life Newman was born on 18 February 1952 in London, of US and Chilean parentage. When they met, all foreign journalists and diplomats were housed at the Metropol Hotel in Moscow, Both parents eventually had to leave Moscow: her father, for criticising the regime and her mother when Chile severed diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union. As Bureau Chief for the New York Herald Tribune, the pair moved to Berlin for three years, and then to London for three years, where Lucia and her two sisters were born. The family then moved to New York, after spending three years in Buenos Aires. Joseph Newman worked at the United Nations, writing his own by-line on the editorial page of the NY Herald Tribune. The family moved to Bronxville, NY, when the Tribune collapsed after an extended strike, bringing to an end the longest-running newspaper in US history.