DAVID PUENTE: Meet Exclusiva's Creator
— -- David Puente is the creator and anchor of "EXCLUSIVA", a Hispanic news program for ABC News Now that features interviews, information and breaking news.
"Exclusiva" is available on ABC News Now and via streaming video on www.abcnews.com/exclusiva. You can also read the "Exclusiva" blog, and listen to the "Exclusiva" podcast on iTunes. The video, the blog and the podcast all report the news — international politics, entertainment, culture and sports — from Latin America and the Hispanic world.
Puente was also responsible for writing the first ever Spanish-language articles published on ABCNEWS.com, and he began the first-ever regular US network news segment on Spanish-language radio.
His trajectory in television, radio, print and new media started in the early 1990s living and working in Madrid, Paris, London, Africa and the Middle East.
He covered several trips of President Clinton including his tour of African nations in 1998. In 1999 Puente joined the ABC News staff in New York where he worked with Peter Jennings on "ABC 2000." Puente's more recent assignments brought him to meet with Mexican President Vicente Fox for Diane Sawyer's program Primetime and to Cuba where he worked with Barbara Walters on her exclusive interview of Fidel Castro for 20/20.
Puente studies Arabic and speaks fluent English, Spanish and French and has contributed to major media outlets in all three languages: English, (The Miami Herald, CNN International, Fox News, ABC News Radio); Spanish (RTVE, Onda Cero Radio, El Diario La Prensa), and French (TF1).
Puente has won two Emmy awards, one for his work on "ABC 2000," and the other for his coverage of 9/11. In 2003 he won a National Headliner Award for the Fidel Castro interview. Since 1999, he has been a member of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists.
In 2000, Puente founded, in memory of his late brother, The Leo Puente Memorial Fund, which has awarded over $50,000 in aid and college scholarships to students in Newark, NJ, his hometown. Puente is a graduate of New York University.
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