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Adrian Bernal

Adrian Bernal is an award winning broadcast professional and journalist with 5 Emmy nominations and 2 Gold Promax awards. He currently works for his own company Creative Inc., where he uses his skills as an interpreter (Spanish/English), as a writer/producer/director and as a freelance assignments desk editor for CNNenEspanol.

Previously Adrian helped to create and launch Georgia TeVe channel 150, Atlanta 's first independent Spanish language TV station. Adrian oversaw Creative Services, Production, Promotions, and New-media and was the station's official voice-over talent. Later he became he became the executive producer of Atlanta 's first 30 minute Spanish language newscast, Fox5/ GeorgiaTeVe Noticias.

Adrian was recruited in 1988 from the University of Texas at Austin , to help launch Telemundo/CNN, the networks first foreign language service, covering such stories as the fall of the Berlin wall, the San Francisco Earthquake and the first Gulf War among others. His career at Turner Broadcasting stretched 12 years and included working at TNT and Cartoon network Latin America .

Adrian has worked extensively with the Latino community and is a member of numerous media and community organizations. A licensed interpreter, he is a board member of the AAIT (Atlanta Association of Interpreters and Translators) and serves as President of GALAJ (Georgia Association of Latin American Journalists). He is a native of San Antonio , Texas .

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