María Encarnación Valenzuela Conthe (born 1945), better known as Curry or Curri Valenzuela, is a Spanish journalist and writer.

Biography

After graduating from the , Curri Valenzuela began her career working for the EFE news agency, first in New York and Washington between 1967 and 1973, and later in London for three more years. During the Transition she was editor-in-chief of ''

Cambio 16 ''Cambio 16'' is a Spanish language monthly current affairs magazine published in Madrid, Spain, by "Group 16". History and profile ''Cambio 16'' was first published as a weekly in September 1971 and played an important media role during the Sp ...

'', and between 1982 and 1986 she was with EFE, in both cases in the National section. Between 1986 and 1992, Valenzuela was political editor of the magazine '' Tiempo''. Beginning in 1996 she was administrative director of

Radio Televisión Española The Corporación de Radio y Televisión Española, S.A. (; ), known as Radiotelevisión Española or RTVE, is the state-owned public corporation that assumed in 2007 the indirect management of the Spanish public radio and television service know ...

, nominated by the Popular Party, and more specifically its president

José María Aznar José María Alfredo Aznar López (; born 25 February 1953) is a Spanish politician who was the prime minister of Spain from 1996 to 2004. He led the People's Party (PP), the dominant centre-right political party in Spain. A member of the Fre ...

. She has contributed independently to several media outlets. From 2004 to 2010 she directed and presented

Telemadrid Telemadrid is a public regional television station in the Community of Madrid, Spain, the flagship channel of the regional public broadcaster Radio Televisión Madrid (RTVM). It began its broadcast on 2 May 1989. History First years Telemadr ...

's talk show ''Alto y Claro''. In September 2010 she was signed by from the Vocento group to host a national television talk show, which was broadcast for less than a year. In 2009, '' FHM'' chose Valenzuela as the sexiest and most serious journalist on Spanish television. Since September 2011 she has written for the talk show ''Con el mundo a cuestas'', which is directed and presented by journalist on channel . She has also written for the Telemadrid program ''El Círculo'', which is directed and presented by . Since July 2012 she has directed and presented the political and economic analysis program ''La Tertulia de Curri'' on . Since September 2013 she has contributed to the talk show ''

Los Desayunos de TVE ''Los Desayunos de TVE'' (English: ''TVE's Breakfasts'') was a Spanish breakfast television news program, primarily broadcasting on weekdays on La 1 of TVE from January 8, 1994 to July 17, 2020. Format The show consists of an interview with the ...

'' on La 1, and the radio program ', directed and presented by . Since September 2014 she has also been a panelist on the program ', which is presented by journalist

Inés Ballester María Inés Ballester Muñoz (born 28 September 1958) is a Spanish journalist and presenter. Biography With a licentiate in Journalism from the Autonomous University of Barcelona, Inés Ballester started her career at Cadena SER, and later wen ...

on La 1. She was married to journalist .

Works

Curri Valenzuela has written four books to date. * ''100 personajes que hunden España'' (2007) * ''Sola'' (2008) * ''Los culpables de la crisis'' (2009) * ''Yo no me quiero jubilar'' (2012)

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Valenzuela, Curri 1945 births Living people People from Málaga Spanish political commentators Spanish television presenters Spanish women journalists Spanish women television presenters