Natasha Barrett (television reporter)
Natasha Barrett is an American broadcast journalist. She was an anchor for KTRK-TV in Houston, TX. Natasha served as the weekend evening anchor and consumer reporter for four years. She is a Houston native, who graduated from Cypress Falls High School. She is the senior spokesperson for Memorial Hermann Health System.
Career
[edit]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, D.C., as a reporter.
Barrett received a Breaking News Award for her day-long coverage of a deadly church bus crash from the Texas Associated Press.[citation needed] She is also the recipient of an Investigative Reporting Award from the Virginia Associated Press for her work at WVEC-TV.[citation needed]
In 2007, she was nominated for the Hottest Female On-air in Washington.[4]
Barrett was a news anchor for KTRK-TV in Houston. In November 2018, she was hired to be the strategic communications manager for the city of Baytown, Texas.[5] She left the position in August 2019 to work as the senior spokesperson for Memorial Hermann Health System.[6]
References
[edit]- ^ 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. Archived from the original on 2011-07-08.
- ^ Natasha Barrett moving on up"'Buffy' jumping WB for UPN". Corpus Christi Caller-Times. Archived from the original on 2008-08-21.
- ^ Hottest Female On Air http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlDC/hottest_media_types/2007_hottest_media_types_finalists_female_on_air_63533.asp Archived 2008-07-24 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Hollis, Matt (18 November 2018). "Say hello to Baytown's public relations team". The Baytown Sun. Retrieved 2 December 2020.
- ^ Hollis, Matt (22 August 2019). "City communication manager takes new job". The Baytown Sun. Retrieved 2 December 2020.