Mónica Carrillo

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In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Carrillo and the second or maternal family name is Martínez.
Mónica Carrillo
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Carrillo in 2011
Born
Mónica Carrillo Martínez

(1976-09-16) September 16, 1976 (age 45)
Elche, Alicante
OccupationJournalist
Years active2000–2006
Employer
Websitemonicacarrillo.es

Mónica Carrillo Martínez (born 16 September 1976) is a Spanish journalist and writer who works for Antena 3 on its Antena 3 Noticias news bulletins. She has worked for Televisión Española on the 24 horas rolling news channel, co-founded the PSOE Media Monitoring Office, and has read the news on Antena 3 Noticias since 2006. Carrillo has broadcast on the radio stations Europa FM and Onda Cero. She is the author of four books and was voted the winner of the Premio Azorín accolade in 2020.

Biography[]

On 16 September 1976,[1] Carrillo was born in Elche, Alicante, Spain.[2] Most of her family originate from Murcia and she has one brother. Carrillo was brought up in Elche.[3] Nobody in her family had either studied or worked in journalism.[4] At first, she left Elche to study for a career in architecture and a diploma in tourism at the University of Alicante.[4][5][6] In 2000, Carrillo graduated with a degree in journalism from the Charles III University of Madrid and she also studied English, French and German following a year of studying in Munich on the Erasmus Mundus programme.[2][6]

The studies enabled her to begin her career in the media,[7] working as an intern at EFE Radio as a newsreader, voice-over and writer for over a single year. Carrillo began working in the national news section of the state broadcaster Televisión Española (RTVE) on a scholarship for a three-month period in mid-2000, doing the day's first and second news bulletins presented by Ana Blanco and Alfredo Urdaci.[5][6][7] As a result of her interest in the media and national politics,[5] she was part of a group of journalists who established the PSOE Media Monitoring Office.[7] Following a period working for the PSOE Media Monitoring Office, Carrillo returned to working in national television from July 2001 in a writing role.[5] She rejoined RTVE as an editor of the economics section of the rolling news channel 24 horas and she was a collaborator on the programme Mercados y Negocios. In mid-2004, Carrillo led the presentation and writing team of the stock market information programme Telediario Matinal. She went on to become a member of the team that presented the flagship international Spanish-language news programme Diario América from September 2004 on the TVE Internacional channel.[6][7] She received a large enough audience to enable her to with the chance to do similar formats.[5]

She left public broadcasting television,[5] and joined the Antena 3 Noticias team in December 2006. Carrillo read the news on the morning bulletin Noticias de la Mañana with  [es] and  [es] as well as infrequently reading the news at weekends in place of Lourdes Maldonado.[6][7] From September 2008, she presented the 9:00 p.m news bulletin Antena 3 Noticias 2 with Matías Prats Luque.[8] Starting from September 2009, Carrillo and  [es] co-read the Antena 3 Noticias 1 news bulletin broadcast at 3:00 pm.[6][7] In 2011, she rejected an offer of a contract from the Italian businessperson Paolo Vasile to join his Spanish-owned Telecinco network as co-presenter of the weekend news bulleting on the channel alongside  [es] and in place of  [es], who was pregnant.[9] Carrillo thus continued to present Antena 3 Noticias 1 with  [es] until 2012 and then read the Antena 3 Noticias 2 bulletin with Prats from 3 September 2012.[6] She was a guest on the episode El que mucho abarca poco aprieta for the comedy programme  [es] in 2012.[5] Carrillo began collaborating with Javier Limón on the new Europa FM radio show Un Lugar Llamado Mundo on 25 June 2013.[6]

She was transferred co-reading the Noticias Fin de Semana with Prats broadcast at 9:00 pm starting on 9 September 2014,[10] and she began collaborating with Juan Ramón Lucas and  [es] on the Onda Cero radio programme  [es] as the current affairs correspondent in September 2016.[11] Carrillo joined the team that presented the LaSexta programme En busca de la longevidad in which she travelled to Japan to discuss the Asian nation and the science world.[5] She was selected to promote the  [es] brand on television until December 2017.[12] Carrillo participated in the first series of the singing competition Mask Singer: Adivina quién canta as a guest masked singer on its third episode, performing Adele's song Someone Like You to "break down mental walls".[13]

She also began a career in writing through authoring micro-stories on Twitter and had considered writing stories with more than 140 characters.[14] In 2014, Carrillo published her first novel, La Luz de Candela.[15] Her second novel, Olvidé decirte quiero, was published two years later.[16] In 2017, Carrillo published a complication book of Twitter micro-stories called El tiempo Todo Locura.[17] She published her third novel, La vida desnuda, in 2020.[18]

Personal life[]

She has been in a relationship with the singer Vanesa Martín since 2019.[19] Carillo mainly keeps her private life discreet from the public and is shy.[20] In 2020, she was diagnosed with the skin cancer basal cell carcinoma on her nose that was later removed with precision surgery.[21]

Awards[]

In both 2009 and 2017, Carrillo won the TP de Oro award for the best news programme on Antena 3 Noticias.[2] Carrillo received the Antena de Oro award in the television section from the Federation of Radio and Television Associations of Spain at the 2017 ceremony.[22] She was voted the winner of the 2020 Premio Azorín accolade by the Provincial Council of Alicante and the publishing house Planeta Group for her novel La vida desnuda and attended the ceremony under the pseudonym Martina Suárez.[23]

References[]

  1. ^ "Mónica Carrillo se parte de risa con su "sesenta y seis" años de edad" [Monica Carrillo laughs at her "sixty-six" year old]. El Español (in Spanish). 17 September 2021. Archived from the original on 18 September 2021. Retrieved 26 November 2021.
  2. ^ a b c "Mónica Carrillo" (in Spanish). FormulaTV. Archived from the original on 8 October 2021. Retrieved 26 November 2021.
  3. ^ Gonzálvez, Paula M. (1 September 2014). ""La vida es mi fuente de inspiración; solo hay que detenerse y observar"" [Life is my source of inspiration; you just have to stop and observe "]. La Verdad (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 23 April 2015. Retrieved 26 November 2021.
  4. ^ a b Lakunza, Rosana (21 June 2014). "Mónica Carrillo: "No me siento más escritora que periodista"" [Monica Carrillo: "I don't feel like a writer more than a journalist"]. Deia (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 28 November 2021. Retrieved 26 November 2021.
  5. ^ a b c d e f g h Martin, Andrea (19 September 2021). "Así fueron los inicios de Mónica Carrillo: de estudiante de arquitectura a compañera inseparable de Matías Prats" [This was the beginnings of Mónica Carrillo: from architecture student to inseparable companion of Matías Prats]. 20 minutos (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 4 November 2021. Retrieved 26 November 2021.
  6. ^ a b c d e f g h "Mónica Carrillo". El Economista (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 28 November 2021. Retrieved 26 November 2021.
  7. ^ a b c d e f ""The Front Page: Retos de futuro en la enseñanza del periodismo"" [The Front Page: Future Challenges in Teaching Journalism] (in Spanish). Charles III University of Madrid. 28 November 2010. Archived from the original on 28 November 2021. Retrieved 26 November 2021.
  8. ^ Piña, Raúl (2 September 2008). "Mónica Carrillo, 'pareja de baile' de Matías Prats en el informativo" [Mónica Carrillo, Matías Prats's 'dance partner' in the news]. El Mundo (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 31 July 2012. Retrieved 26 November 2021.
  9. ^ "Mónica Carrillo, 'robo' frustrado de Tele 5" [Mónica Carrillo, frustrated 'robbery' of Tele 5] (in Spanish). elDiario.es. 11 July 2011. Archived from the original on 8 May 2021. Retrieved 26 November 2021.
    Fdez, Juan M. (11 July 2011). "Vasile intenta 'pescar' de nuevo en las noticias de Antena 3 pero Mónica Carrillo rechaza su oferta" [Vasile tries to 'fish' again in the news of Antena 3 but Mónica Carrillo rejects his offer] (in Spanish). Vanitatis. Archived from the original on 7 April 2013. Retrieved 26 November 2021.
  10. ^ "Matías Prats y Mónica Carrillo presentarán los informativos de fin de semana en Antena 3" [Matías Prats and Mónica Carrillo will present the weekend news on Antena 3]. 20 minutos (in Spanish). EFE. 1 September 2014. Archived from the original on 10 June 2020. Retrieved 26 November 2021.
  11. ^ de Hoyos, Javier (27 August 2016). "Mónica Carrillo salta a la radio de la mano de Juan Ramón Lucas en Onda Cero" [Mónica Carrillo jumps to the radio hand in hand with Juan Ramón Lucas in Onda Cero] (in Spanish). FormulaTV. Archived from the original on 1 November 2016. Retrieved 26 November 2021.
  12. ^ "Mónica Carrillo, nueva imagen del Caldo Casero Gallina Blanca" [Mónica Carrillo, new image of the Gallina Blanca Homemade Broth] (in Spanish). Control Publicidad. 4 December 2017. Retrieved 26 November 2021.
  13. ^ "Mónica Carrillo confiesa por qué participó en 'Mask Singer'" [Mónica Carrillo confesses why she participated in 'Mask Singer']. La Vanguardia (in Spanish). 19 November 2020. Archived from the original on 30 November 2020. Retrieved 26 November 2021.
  14. ^ "Mónica Carrillo: «"La luz de Candela" es una historia de pasión y desamor»" [Mónica Carrillo: «" La luz de Candela "is a story of passion and heartbreak»]. ABC (in Spanish). 27 May 2014. Archived from the original on 19 August 2017. Retrieved 26 November 2021.
  15. ^ "Mónica Carrillo: "Mi libro me ha permitido redescubrirme"" [Mónica Carrillo: "My book has allowed me to rediscover myself"]. Diario de Navarra (in Spanish). EFE. 8 August 2014. Archived from the original on 28 November 2021. Retrieved 26 November 2021.
  16. ^ Roca, Mireya (2 February 2018) [10 April 2016]. "Mónica Carrillo publica su segunda novela" [Mónica Carrillo publishes her second novel]. El Periódico de Catalunya (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 19 December 2017. Retrieved 26 November 2021.
  17. ^ Hernandis, Miguel (14 March 2017). "Mónica Carrillo: "El microcuento es un zarpazo"" [Mónica Carrillo: "The micro-story is a big blow"]. El Mundo (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 28 April 2017. Retrieved 26 November 2021.
  18. ^ Galdeano, Laura (11 June 2020). "Mónica Carrillo: "Puedo entender un silencio o una omisión, pero no la mentira"" [Mónica Carrillo: "I can understand a silence or an omission, but not the lie"]. Libertad Digital (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 26 January 2021. Retrieved 26 November 2021.
  19. ^ Román, Manuel (28 November 2020). "Vanesa Martín y Mónica Carrillo, pareja de hecho desde hace un año" [Vanesa Martín y Mónica Carrillo, pareja de hecho desde hace un año]. Libertad Digital (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 6 June 2021. Retrieved 26 November 2021.
  20. ^ Palomar, Ramón (2 March 2017). "Mónica Carrillo, entre el noticiario y la literatura" [Mónica Carrillo, between the news and literature]. Las Provincias (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 13 March 2020. Retrieved 26 November 2021.
  21. ^ Silvestre, Javier (6 July 2021). "Mónica Carrillo muestra las cicatrices de su cáncer de piel" [Mónica Carrillo shows the scars of her skin cancer]. La Vanguardia (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 25 August 2021. Retrieved 26 November 2021.
  22. ^ "Las periodistas Mónica Carrillo y Helena Resano, premio Antena de Oro" [Journalists Mónica Carrillo and Helena Resano, Antena de Oro award]. Diario de Navarra (in Spanish). 11 December 2017. Archived from the original on 4 April 2019. Retrieved 27 November 2021.
  23. ^ Burgos, Rafa (5 March 2020). "Mónica Carrillo gana el Premio Azorín con una novela sobre los secretos de familia" [Mónica Carrillo wins the Azorín Prize with a novel about family secrets]. El País (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 17 August 2021. Retrieved 27 November 2021.

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