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Fernández hired at NBCNews.com

Posted on 26 April 2013. Tags: , , ,

Maria Elena FernandezMaría Elena Fernández, who in January of this year took a buyout from The Daily Beast, has been hired as a Los Angeles-based entertainment correspondent for NBCNews.com and Today.com. She starts the new job on May 6.

María Elena says she’ll be covering entertainment, pop culture and celebrity justice for the Comcast-owned online properties and will probably appear on air from time to time.

“Comcast is investing a lot of resources into expanding NBC’s digital news staff and integrating it into the NBC News operation,” she says.

“As a longtime journalist, it’s exciting to join an established and highly reputable media brand that is also creating something new. It’s like working at a start-up for grown-ups.”

Prior to The Daily Beast, María Elena spent 12 years as an entertainment reporter at the L.A. Times.

NBC News has been beefing up its online staff, after it ended its 16-year joint venture with Microsoft and created the new site NBCNews.com last year.

The new website will focus on original work, not wire copy or partner news organizations’ stories.

 

 

 

http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2013/03/18/nbcnews-com-makes-first-wave-of-hires/

 

 

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I'm an Emmy award-winning journalist, who's worked as an on-air reporter in Spanish and English-language television news. I've worked for Univision, Telemundo, CNN en Español and Los Angeles Fox and UPN stations before diving into a convergence model at the San Jose Mercury News. I was president of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists from 2004 to 2006, and inducted into the Hall of Fame in August of 2016. As an online news manager, I was West Coast Web Editor for impreMedia and Managing Editor of IntersectionsSouthLA.org. In addition to running Media Moves, which I founded in June of 2007, I'm a regular contributor to Forbes and also do freelance work as writer, reporter and producer.
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