Journalist Valerie Castro has joined The News with Shepard Smith, CNBC’s nightly newscast.
With 14 years of experience in journalism, the Emmy Award-winning Castro is one of several new hires and promotions at CNBC, a pay television business news channel based in New Jersey and owned by NBCUniversal News Group, a division of NBCUniversal.
The News with Shepard Smith is a relatively new TV show hosted by Shepard Smith, formerly of Fox News. Launched in late September 2020, the program airs at 7 p.m. ET Monday through Friday.
“As we continue to expand our general news coverage and build on our industry-leading business news team, I’m excited to announce the addition of two new correspondents to CNBC’s roster and the promotion of two of our veteran producers,” said Dan Colarusso, senior vice president of CNBC Business News.
Castro’s new job ensures that she’ll stay with the NBCUniversal family. She most recently served as the anchor for The Report, a news program produced by NBC News for the now-defunct mobile video platform Quibi. She had already collaborated occasionally with The News With Shepard Smith in the past few months.
Before joining NBC, Castro was a general assignment reporter for WCBS in New York. Prior to moving to the East Coast, the Colorado native spent five years at the CBS affiliate KCNC in Denver, where she covered high-profile stories like wildfires, floods and winter snowstorms. She was also there for the Aurora Theater shooting and extensively reported on court hearings following that tragedy, according to a press statement from CNBC.
Castro’s LinkedIn profile says she also worked for Hubbard Broadcasting in two New Mexico cities, first at KOBF-TV in Farmington and later at KOB-TV in Albuquerque.
Castro has a bachelor’s in journalism from the University of Colorado at Boulder, where she also obtained a minor in history. She is fluent in Spanish and a member of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists. She
CNBC’s other hire is Kristina Partsinevelos, a general assignment reporter for Business Day covering stocks and the reopening of the American economy, among other topics.
Also, Maria Boden was promoted to executive producer of The Exchange and Power Lunch and Marc Gilbert to executive producer of TechCheck, a program about opportunities and risks in the technology sector.