She was a chief investigative correspondent for
Discovery Channel's Border Live show, embedding in communities, and with border enforcement agencies along the U.S.-Mexico border. She was also TEGNA-owned ABC 10's investigative reporter, a position that earned her regional and national awards in journalism. crime, family court, immigration, housing, education, homelessness, police shootings, drug policy, wildfires, and other climate disasters, including an award-winning documentary about Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico. Black Market Dispatches and Vice News. Luciano joined
NBC News in December 2010 from
Univision network where she served as co-host of a live daily program and as a correspondent for the top-rated show
Aquí y Ahora. Previously, she was a co-host from 2006 to 2010 at
Escandalo TV (Scandal TV), a spicy Spanish gossip show at
TeleFutura Network. In August 2011, Lilia Luciano covered
Hurricane Irene from
Nassau, Bahamas for
NBC's Nightly News with
Brian Williams,
Today Show,
MSNBC,
The Weather Channel,
CNBC and
Telemundo. She went on to cover the storm's trail of devastation in
North Carolina. During the summer of 2011 Luciano covered the
Casey Anthony first degree murder trial in Orlando, Florida for
MSNBC and the
Today Show. Luciano reported live from the Orange County courthouse throughout the six-week trial. At midnight on July 17, she gave a special breaking news report on MSNBC to announce Anthony's release from prison. In January 2012, Luciano was the only national correspondent from the major networks covering the murder trial of
Joran Van der Sloot in
Lima, Peru for both
Today Show, and
Telemundo, obtaining exclusive interviews with the victim's family and government authorities in
Lima. On February 22, 2012, Luciano reported for
Today, MSNBC and
Comcast Sports on the first degree murder trial of
University of Virginia Lacrosse captain George Huguely, convicted in the death of his girlfriend Yeardly Love. Luciano was one of the national television reporters on the scene in
Sanford, Florida covering the
Trayvon Martin story. On May 2, 2012, it was announced that Luciano was no longer at NBC News, after it was found that the audio portion of
George Zimmerman's 9-1-1 call, reporting a potential burglary, was edited in a manner that made Zimmerman sound racist by making an unprompted statement that Martin was black instead of answering the 911 dispatcher's questions. NBC dismissed the producer responsible for editing the piece and also dismissed Luciano for the oversight. All of Luciano's reports on the Trayvon Martin story which contained the misleading edit were removed from the
Today website. NBC News president Steve Capus told Reuters that the edit, made by a Miami-based producer, was "a mistake and not a deliberate act to misrepresent the phone call." The network claimed that it was done in order to meet a maximum time requirement for the piece, a common pressure in morning television. The producer was subsequently fired and NBC News apologized for the error, though not on the air, stating it was an "editing error in the production process."
Zimmerman's criminal trial concluded with a "not guilty"
jury verdict and
acquittal on July 13, 2013, allowing his lawsuit to proceed. Zimmerman's lawsuit against NBC and his subsequent appeal were both dismissed in Florida courts. ==Non-profit work==