David Puente is the first network television journalist to report a weekly news program about Hispanics on the Internet

Internet

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 and new media

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, (webcast

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, podcast

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, and blog

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Exclusiva

In November 2004 David Puente created "Exclusiva", a televised program about Hispanic news in English for ABC News Now

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, the network's digital news channel that transmits on the Internet and wireless technology.

"Exclusiva" reported on a wide range of stories about Hispanics around the world.

On-line

David Puente was also responsible for writing the first Spanish-language articles ever published on ABCNews.com

ABC News

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. He also began a weekly ABC News

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segment on Spanish-language radio, which also had never before existed in network news.

Move to AC360

On February 5, 2009, Puente sent a message to his Exclusiva facebook group announcing his move to CNN with Anderson Cooper 360 and ac360.com after four years as ABC News Exclusiva's anchor and producer.