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Isaac Lee

Isaac Lee Possin
Isaac Lee - World Economic Forum on Latin America 2010.jpg
Isaac Lee at the World Economic Forum on Latin America in 2010
Born (1971-01-05) January 5, 1971 (age 46)
Bogotá, Colombia
Nationality American
Occupation Chief Content Officer for Univision and Televisa
Employer Univision Communications
Known for Chief News, Entertainment & Digital Officer of Univision
Co-founder and former CEO of Fusion
President of News for Univision
Former Editor in Chief of Revista Semana

Isaac Lee Possin (born 1971) is a journalist and executive at Univision.

Lee was born in Bogotá, Colombia to Jewish immigrants. He is openly Gay

When Lee was 23, he reported that Colombia's then president Ernesto Samper had received funding from the Cali Cartel. Lee was fired immediately afterward.

At the age of 25, Lee was appointed editor of Cromos. At 26, he was named editor-in-chief of the Colombian magazine Semana. During his tenure at Semana, the magazine published a cover story which forced two Colombian cabinet ministers to resign a couple of days later.

Lee served as founding partner and editor in chief of PODER Magazine, a pan-regional magazine for the business elite with special editions for the US Hispanic market, Mexico, Colombia, Chile, Venezuela and Peru with a total circulation of over half a million copies. The magazine was later sold to Televisa and other investors.

On December 9, 2010 Univision announced the appointment of Lee as President of News.

Shortly after joining Univision, Lee announced he was working on the launch of a 24-hour cable news channel in English; the new channel was officially announced in May 2012 as a joint venture between The Walt Disney Company and Univision. In February 2013, both networks announced the new channel would be called Fusion.

Two new departments within news were created in 2011: an Investigative Unit led by Gerardo Reyes and a Documentary Unit led by Juan Rendon. The Documentary Unit later became StoryHouse a content development and production venture producing original content for UCI’s portfolio of owned networks as well as third party networks and platforms.

Under Lee's tenure, Univision News has attained several recognitions for journalistic excellence such as the 2012 Peabody and IRE Awards for its “Fast and Furious” investigation, three Emmy's for outstanding investigative reporting, outstanding newsmagazine and outstanding breaking news coverage and two Gracie awards, and the Cronkite Award for Excellence in Political Journalism.


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