Natasha Barrett is an American
broadcast
Broadcasting is the distribution of audio or video content to a dispersed audience via any electronic mass communications medium, but typically one using the electromagnetic spectrum ( radio waves), in a one-to-many model. Broadcasting began ...
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
Memorial Hermann Health System is the largest not-for-profit health system in southeast Texas and consists of 17 hospitals, 8 Cancer Centers, 3 Heart & Vascular Institutes, and 27 sports medicine and rehabilitation centers, in addition to other ...
.
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.
Barrett studied in
London,
England while attending
American University
The American University (AU or American) is a private federally chartered research university in Washington, D.C. Its main campus spans 90 acres (36 ha) on Ward Circle, mostly in the Spring Valley neighborhood of Northwest D.C. AU was charte ...
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 in Corpus Christi, followed by
KCEN-TV in
Waco. She joined WVEC-TV in
Norfolk, Virginia
Norfolk ( ) is an independent city in the Commonwealth of Virginia in the United States. Incorporated in 1705, it had a population of 238,005 at the 2020 census, making it the third-most populous city in Virginia after neighboring Virginia Be ...
, 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.
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.
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
Baytown is a city in the U.S. state of Texas, within Harris and Chambers counties. Located in the Houston–The Woodlands–Sugar Land metropolitan statistical area, it lies on the northern side of the Galveston Bay complex near the outlets of t ...
. She left the position in August 2019 to work as the senior spokesperson for
Memorial Hermann Health System
Memorial Hermann Health System is the largest not-for-profit health system in southeast Texas and consists of 17 hospitals, 8 Cancer Centers, 3 Heart & Vascular Institutes, and 27 sports medicine and rehabilitation centers, in addition to other ...
.
References
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Year of birth missing (living people)
American television journalists
American women television journalists
American University School of Communication alumni
Living people
Television anchors from Houston
21st-century American women