Daniel Coronell

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Coronell and the second or maternal family name is Castañeda.
Daniel Coronell in 2022

Daniel Alfonso Coronell Castañeda (Bogotá, October 25, 1964)[1] is a Colombian journalist and Businessperson[2][3] shareholder of the media Plural Comunicaciones. He has been news director for RCN, Noticias Uno, and president of Univision News, the news division of Univision, until August 1, 2021.[4][5] In September 2021 he was appointed as president of the weekly news magazine Cambio.[6][7] In October 2021, Coronell started working for W Radio Colombia.[8]

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.[9] 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,[10][11] and which features op-eds by Antonio Caballero (until he died 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.,[12]

Coronell was the victim of multiple threats that forced him into exile.[13] In 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 Civil Aeronautics.[14][15][16][17] In September 2005, Coronell had to leave the country and live in exile for two years due to death threats made to him and his family.[18]

  1. ^ Vacía, La Silla. "Daniel Coronell". Súper Amigos - La Silla Vacía (in Spanish). Retrieved 2021-10-14.
  2. ^ Semana (2016-11-30). "A Jorge Barón le dieron 'la patadita de la buena suerte'". Semana.com Últimas Noticias de Colombia y el Mundo (in Spanish). Retrieved 2023-06-13.
  3. ^ "Noticias Uno saldrá del aire". RCN Radio (in Spanish). 2019-09-01. Retrieved 2023-06-13.
  4. ^ "Univision News President Daniel Coronell to Step Down; Jorge Ramos Named Special Editorial Advisor to CEO". adweek.it. Retrieved 2021-10-14.
  5. ^ 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.
  6. ^ 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.
  7. ^ "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.
  8. ^ "Daniel Coronell llega a La W con Julio Sánchez Cristo". www.wradio.com.co (in Spanish). 2021-10-12. Retrieved 2021-10-14.
  9. ^ 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)
  10. ^ Tiempo, Casa Editorial El (2020-04-29). "Daniel Samper Pizano se une a 'Los Danieles'". El Tiempo (in Spanish). Retrieved 2021-10-14.
  11. ^ Pulzo; Pulzo.com. "Quién es Daniel Coronell: su salida de Univisión, su exilio por amenazas y más". pulzo.com. Retrieved 2021-10-14.
  12. ^ "Daniel Coronell".
  13. ^ https://www.elespectador.com/entrentación/arteygente/gente/los-exilios-de-daniel-coronell-articulo-598515 [dead link]
  14. ^ Yohir Akerman (2018-04-29). "Las licencias de Uribe" (in Spanish). El Espectador. Retrieved 2022-09-04.
  15. ^ Yohir Akerman (2018-05-06). "Las otras licencias de Uribe" (in Spanish). El Espectador. Retrieved 2022-09-04.
  16. ^ Ospina, Hernando Calvo (2009-10-05). Colombia, laboratorio de embrujos. Democracia y terrorismo de Estado (in Spanish). Ediciones Akal. ISBN 978-84-460-3158-1.
  17. ^ 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 /
  18. ^ "Daniel Coronell".