KTRK: Barrera to scale back duties
KTRK-13 reports that longtime Houston reporter Elma Barrera is retiring (sort of):
After 34 years of hard work and dedication, reporter Elma Barrera is retiring.
You may already know that Elma is the first Hispanic TV reporter in Houston and one of the first in the nation. She came to Channel 13 in the 70s as a news intern and was hired as a reporter. She's been through just about everything over the years with the Houston community.She has spent her working life chronicling the life and times of Houston. To see those stories now is to see the history of a city. It's also to see a reporter who made history. Elma Barrera was the first Hispanic woman to be a news reporter in Houston TV, if not the country, which is revolutionary in itself. A lot of people remember the first time they saw her on their living room TV sets.
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Elma helped build the road on which new generations of Hispanic women now travel to jobs in TV, in the media -- a road Elma is traveling still at Channel 13. Now, though, she'll have her own office. She won't be reporting every day, but she'll be as involved as ever. She wouldn't have it any other way. Neither would Houston.
We here at Eyewitness News got a chance to wish Elma the best Wednesday afternoon. You'll still be seeing Elma around. Elma will stay on at the station, working on community affairs projects.
Longtime anchor Shara Fryer left the station altogether earlier this year.
UPDATE (08-06-2006): Laurence Simon calls attention to a Chronicle story on the matter that is just... curious. There has to be more to this story than has been reported so far.
Posted by Kevin Whited @ 08/05/06 10:29 PM | Print | Comments (4)
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