Кристофер Кромметт: CNN en Español басшысының өмірбаяны

CNN's senior vice president in charge of CNN en Español

Christopher Crommett (born July 21, 1958) was the head of CNN en Español, CNN's Spanish language division, from 2002 to 2009. Crommett has been a frequent speaker/presenter on news media and management matters, and consultant to businesses in the U. S. and Latin America. Crommett is also a classically trained singer (tenor), songwriter, composer, and producer.

Crommett was born in Lewiston, Maine in 1958. When he was almost two years old, his family moved to Puerto Rico, where he was raised and received his primary and secondary education. His father, Eugene E. Crommett, was a professor at the University of Puerto Rico and a priest of the Episcopal Church. His mother, Martha W. Crommett, was an English teacher. Christopher gained early journalistic experience by writing for and editing his high school (Academia del Perpetuo Socorro) newspaper. He studied the trumpet and sang in various ensembles, including the professional chorus of Ópera de Puerto Rico. In 1978, while enrolled at Haverford College, near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Crommett took a summer job at WOSO AM, a bilingual radio station in San Juan. He subsequently took a one year leave from college during which he worked at WOSO as an announcer, newscaster, reporter, and producer. In the summer of 1980, he covered both the Republican National Convention and Democratic National Convention for WOSO. After graduating from Haverford in 1981, WOSO hired him as news director and host of a classical music program. He also frequently reported on major Puerto Rico news for the CBS Radio Network. In 1982–83, Crommett served for 12 months as press secretary to Puerto Rico's Resident Commissioner Baltasar Corrada del Río, in Washington, D. C.,