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Article: Their Woman in Havana; CNN, Reporting the News, and Making It
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- The Washington Post
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- March 20, 1997
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Lucia Newman may have the most difficult job in journalism
these days.
The CNN correspondent this week became the first U.S.
journalist based in Cuba in 27 years. Already, her daily reports
from Havana have become the hot topic of conversation and debate
among many of South Florida's million Cuban Americans, who are
sharply divided in their attitudes about the nearby communist
island.
Within minutes of her first broadcast -- on the Helms-Burton
Act, a U.S. effort to cripple the Castro government by reducing
economic development -- callers to Spanish-language radio stations
here had dubbed CNN the "Castro News Network."
Meanwhile, conservative critics have set up informal "watch ...