Natasha Barrett (television reporter)
Natasha Barrett is an American broadcast journalist. She is an anchor for KTRK-TV in Houston, TX. Natasha serves as the weekend evening anchor and consumer reporter. She is a Houston native, who graduated from Cypress Falls High School.
Career
Barrett spent eight years in Washington as the original host of the daily, one-hour talk show called Let's Talk Live. She co hosted the show with Doug McElway who appears now on Fox News. Barrett was also the consumer reporter at WJLA. [1]
Barrett studied in London, England while attending American University in Washington. While in London, she worked for CNBC Europe. She graduated from American with a BA in Broadcast Journalism and Computer Information Systems.
She has worked at two stations in Texas: KZTV[2] in Corpus Christi, followed by KCEN-TV in Waco.[3] She joined WVEC-TV in Norfolk, Virginia as an investigative reporter in 2003. Then, in 2006, she joined WJLA-TV in Washington, DC as a reporter.
Barrett has received numerous awards for her work in journalism. Those awards include a Breaking News Award for her day-long coverage of a deadly church bus crash from the Texas Associated Press. She is also the recipient of an Investigative Reporting Award from the Virginia Associated Press for her work at WVEC-TV.
In 2007, she was nominated for the Hottest Female On-air in Washington.[4]
References
- ↑ Natasha Barrett heads to Washington http://www.vartv.com/archives06c.htm
- ↑ Reporter Natasha Barrett also started recently at KZTV"Cancelled 'Sports Night' comes back to life on Comedy Central". Corpus Christi Caller-Times.
- ↑ Natasha Barrett moving on up"'Buffy' jumping WB for UPN". Corpus Christi Caller-Times.
- ↑ Hottest Female On Air http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlDC/hottest_media_types/2007_hottest_media_types_finalists_female_on_air_63533.asp