Natasha Barrett (television reporter)

Natasha Barrett is an American

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

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

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

^ 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.

[1] Natasha Barrett heads to Washington http://www.vartv.com/archives06c.htm

[2] 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.

[3] Natasha Barrett moving on up"'Buffy' jumping WB for UPN". Corpus Christi Caller-Times. Archived from the original on 2008-08-21.

[4] 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

[5] Hollis, Matt (18 November 2018). "Say hello to Baytown's public relations team". The Baytown Sun. Retrieved 2 December 2020.

[6] Hollis, Matt (22 August 2019). "City communication manager takes new job". The Baytown Sun. Retrieved 2 December 2020.

[3]

[4]

[5]

[6]