''Daniel Tuccio'' is a

Peru Peru, officially the Republic of Peru, is a country in western South America. It is bordered in the north by Ecuador and Colombia, in the east by Brazil, in the southeast by Bolivia, in the south by Chile, and in the south and west by the Pac ...

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reporter A journalist is a person who gathers information in the form of text, audio or pictures, processes it into a newsworthy form and disseminates it to the public. This is called journalism. Roles Journalists can work in broadcast, print, advertis ...

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. He was born in

Anaheim Anaheim ( ) is a city in northern Orange County, California, United States, part of the Greater Los Angeles area. As of the 2020 census, the city had a population of 346,824, making it the most populous city in Orange County, the tenth-most ...

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and grew up in

Lima Lima ( ; ), founded in 1535 as the Ciudad de los Reyes (, Spanish for "City of Biblical Magi, Kings"), is the capital and largest city of Peru. It is located in the valleys of the Chillón River, Chillón, Rímac River, Rímac and Lurín Rive ...

, Peru. He started his career as a production assistant in Panamericana Television in Lima in 1998. He worked for soccer show ''Futbol Grande'', which showed history soccer matches including those of the Peru national team in World Cups and Copa America. He moved to Los Angeles to pursue his career in journalism. In 2002 he was correspondent for Gold Cup in Pasadena, CA for Peruvian website Peru.com. He then moved to radio where he worked for Super Estrella Network and Super Estrella Los Angeles. He landed his news reporting job at

KPMR KPMR (channel 38) is a television station licensed to Santa Barbara, California, United States, serving the Central Coast of California as an affiliate of the Spanish-language network Univision. It is owned by Entravision Communications alongsid ...

, the

Univision Univision () is an American Spanish-language terrestrial television, free-to-air television network owned by TelevisaUnivision. It is the United States' largest provider of Spanish-language content. The network's programming is aimed at the L ...

affiliate in Santa Barbara, CA. He had the opportunity to cover presidential candidate John McCain's visit to the Central Coast. He then moved back to Lima where he worked as general assignment reporter for Frecuencia Latina. He covered many stories from social, crime, consumer and politics. He interviewed many personalities of the Peruvian spectrum like President Alan Garcia, former President

Alejandro Toledo Alejandro Celestino Toledo Manrique (; born 28 March 1946) is a Peruvian former politician who served as President of Peru, from 2001 to 2006. He gained international prominence after leading the opposition against president Alberto Fujimori, w ...

Keiko Fujimori Keiko Sofía Fujimori Higuchi (, , Hepburn romanization, Hepburn: , ; born 25 May 1975) is a Peruvian politician and business administrator. Fujimori is the eldest daughter of former Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori and Susana Higuchi. From ...

, singer/author Gianmarco, folklor artists Chato Grados and Abencia Mesa. He returned to California as main anchor of

Noticias Univision ; ) is the news division of Univision, an American Spanish-language free-to-air television network owned by the Univision Television Group division of TelevisaUnivision. The news division is based out of the network's facilities, referred to ...

Costa Central in Santa Barbara. He also performed duties of image producer of the newscast. While Daniel Tuccio was anchor, ratings rose three times. He continued his journalism career at KCEC, Univision affiliate in Denver, CO. He works as general assignment/feature reporter for Noticias Univision Colorado Solo a las Diez. He reports the most interesting stories that affect the Hispanic community in Colorado. His stories have been featured several times in the

CNN Cable News Network (CNN) is a multinational news organization operating, most notably, a website and a TV channel headquartered in Atlanta. Founded in 1980 by American media proprietor Ted Turner and Reese Schonfeld as a 24-hour cable ne ...

Newsource. For a short time late 2014/2015 he worked at

KTLM KTLM (channel 40) is a television station licensed to Rio Grande City, Texas, United States, broadcasting the Spanish-language Telemundo network to the Lower Rio Grande Valley. Owned and operated by NBCUniversal's Telemundo Station Group, the st ...

in charge for doing morning news briefs and was a general assignment reporter for the 4:30pm and 5:00pm weekday newscast. in June 2015 he became a producer at

KDEN-TV KDEN-TV (channel 25) is a television station licensed to Longmont, Colorado, United States, serving as the Denver area outlet for the Spanish-language network Telemundo. Owned and operated by NBCUniversal's Telemundo Station Group, KDEN-TV main ...

returning to denver to produce the station weekday 4:30,5pm,10pm newscast. KCEC where he worked at is

rival since the station launched newscast in 2011.

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