Carlos Granda is a reporter for KABC-TV News in Los Angeles.

Background

Carlos Granda holds a Bachelor's degree in

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and Broadcast Journalism from the University of South Florida. He became interested in journalism after watching Walter Cronkite on the news. When he was a child, Carlos Granda was impressed by how articulate and poised Walter Cronkite was.

Career

Granda began his career in television news at WINK-TV, the CBS affiliate in

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where he joined as an associate producer. Later he became a full-time reporter for the station. Moving to Miami-based WLTV-TV in 1985, Granda covered a number of major events, including Queen Elizabeth's visit to the Bahamas,

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Centennial in New York, and the crash of a

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in Dallas. After two years at WLTV-TV, Granda moved in 1987 to cover Central American issues at Miami-based ABC-TV affiliate, WPLG-TV. In 1990, Granda moved to New-York based WABC-TV to work as a general assignment reporter and fill-in anchor for "Eyewitness News this Morning". His next move was to New-York based

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in late 1993 as its New Jersey correspondent. In 1995, Granda returned to Miami to become an anchor at

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the CBS affiliate. He joined ABC7 as a

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reporter in April 1998. At KABC, Granda has covered some of the biggest stories in Southern California. He has reported on the 2000 Democratic and Republican Conventions,

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, Elian Gonzalez's deportation and The World Trade Center Attack, and several stories about the

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prisoners at the Guantanamo Naval Base in Cuba.

Awards

Granda has been nominated for five

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. He won an Emmy for his series on the homeless called "My Home is the Street".

References

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