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David C Adams journalist for Univision, based in Miami. He previously worked for Reuters and the St Petersburg Times.

Early life: Adams was born in Beirut, Lebanon in March 1961, where his father served as Middle East correspondent for The Guardian, a United Kingdom-published national newspaper. His family eventually settled in the United Kingdom, living in Sussex and Kent.

Education: Adams was educated at Sevenoaks School, a grammar school in the town of Sevenoaks in Kent, followed by Oxford University where he studied Modern History at Hertford College. He followed that with a diploma in international and domestic journalism at City University. London, with internships at the Manchester Evening News and The Observer.

Life and Career: He began his career at the Kent and East Sussex Courier and also did weekend shifts at The Observer in London. In 1987 he traveled to Central America to work as a freelance journalist covering the civil wars in El Salvador and Nicaragua as well as the U.S. invasion of Panama. In 1992 he moved to Miami as a stringer for the BBC, The Economist and The (London) Times. He was hired in 1994 by the St Petersburg Times as Latin America correspondent. In 1999 he was awarded the Paul Hansell Distinguished Journalism Award, the top journalism prize in Florida presented by the Florida Society of Newspaper Editors. In 2002 he was awarded the Maria Moors Cabot prize by Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism for outstanding reporting on Latin America and commitment to Inter-American understanding.

From 2010 to 2012 he was editor of Poder, a Hispanic magazine based in Miami. He joined Reuters as Miami bureau chief and South-east U.S. editor in charge in 2012. He left Reuters in late 2015 and joined Univision as senior editor for English language content.

Personal life: Adams has lived in Miami since 1992 with his wife, Ines Lozano, and their son Michael.

References:

1.Columbia Announces 2002 Cabot Prize Winners for Reporting on Latin America / http://www.columbia.edu/cu/news/02/07/cabot_prizes.html

2./ David Adams Named Editor of PODER Enterprise Miami and US Editions http://www.marketwired.com/press-release/david-adams-named-editor-of-poder-enterprise-miami-and-us-editions-1182124.htm

External links: Recent articles by David Adams: http://www.univision.com/temas/david-adams