Carlos Granda is a reporter for

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News in Los Angeles.

Background

Carlos Granda holds a Bachelor's degree in Mass Communications and

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from the

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. He became interested in journalism after watching

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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, the Statue of Liberty Centennial in New York, and the crash of a Delta plane in Dallas. After two years at WLTV-TV, Granda moved in 1987 to cover

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n issues at Miami-based ABC-TV affiliate, WPLG-TV. In 1990, Granda moved to New-York based

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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

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. He has reported on the 2000 Democratic and Republican Conventions, Election Day in Austin Texas, 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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