Television journalists Kiran Chetry of CNN, Katty Kay of BBC America and Teresa Rodriguez of Univision will be hosts at the Wonder Women luncheon on Wednesday, March 24, in New York City, co-sponsored by Multichannel News and the New York chapter of Women in Cable Telecommunications.
Chetry anchors CNN's American Morning with John Roberts, Kay is Washington correspondent for BBC America's BBC World News America and Rodriguez co-hosts Univision Network's Aqui y Ahora news magazine with Maria Elena Salinas.
Since joining CNN's flagship morning program in April 2007, Chetry has covered several breaking news stories in the field and at the helm of the anchor desk. They have included the Haiti earthquake, the shooting massacre at Virginia Tech, the assassination of former Pakistani President Benazhair Bhutto, the Michael Jackson Memorial, the San Diego Wildfires and the attempted nightclub bombings in London. She was one of the few journalists to interview Captain Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger and the rest of the "Miracle on the Hudson" flight crew shortly after their heroic landing on the Hudson River.
Throughout the 2008 presidential campaign, Chetry reported live from various key events, including the New Hampshire Primaries and from Washington, D.C., the morning of the inauguration of President Barack Obama. During the campaign, she interviewed several of the candidates, including now President Barack Obama, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Senator John McCain, Govs. Mitt Romney and Bill Richardson and Mayor Rudy Giuliani.
Before joining CNN, Chetry was the anchor of Fox & Friends First and Fox & Friends Weekend for Fox News Channel She began her journalism career at News 21 in Rockville, Md., in 1995 before moving to WICU-TV in Erie, Pa., to become an anchor and health reporter.
Katty Kay began her career with the BBC in Zimbabwe in 1990 where she filed radio reports for the Africa Service of BBC World Service radio. She then went on to work as a BBC correspondent in London, and later Tokyo, reporting on stories including the Kobe earthquake, the gas attack on the Tokyo underground and the beginning of the Japanese economic recession.
She settled in Washington in 1996 where she took some time out of broadcast journalism to join The Times (of London's) Washington bureau before returning to the BBC as a freelance journalist in 2002.
From Washington, she has covered sex scandals in the Clinton administration, two Presidential elections as well as wars in Kosovo, Afghanistan and Iraq. She also witnessed first-hand the huge change in American policy and psyche brought on by the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. Kay also was at the Pentagon just 20 minutes after a hijacked airplane flew into the building. One of her most vivid journalistic memories is of interviewing soldiers still visibly shaking from the attack.
A frequent guest on U.S. programs including The Colbert Report, Kay is a contributor to Meet the Press, Larry King Live, The Chris Matthews Show and a regular guest host for Diane Rehm on NPR.
Teresa Rodriguez created, served as executive producer and hosted Univision Network's Aquí y Ahora Con Teresa Rodriguez, which ultimately became a regularly scheduled primetime weekly newsmagazine program on Univision and received several Emmy awards. Currently she is the main co-host of Aqui y Ahora, an expansion of the earlier show.
Her weekly special segment on Univision's national newscast, Noticiero Univision, entitled "Primer Plano," is an in-depth news report on current national and/or international issues such as AIDS and immigration.
Significant credits include her having hosted a series of award-winning specials aimed at increasing awareness about problems affecting Hispanics in the U.S. entitled America Through Spanish Eyes. She also conducted investigative reports on childhood prostitution in Costa Rica and live land mines left behind in Nicaragua after the Contra Wars in Central America.
In 1992, Rodriguez was a reporter for the George Foster Peabody Award winning WTVJ news team that was recognized for their exceptional coverage of the aftermath of Hurricane Andrew in South Florida.
This year's Wonder Women luncheon will be held at the Grand Hyatt New York (Park Avenue at Grand Central Terminal) from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. The event will honor 12 Wonder Women and 14 Women to Watch, who are key executives in cable television operations, programming and technology, as selected by the editors of Multichannel News. Their profiles appeared in the Jan. 25 edition of Multichannel News.
"We are thrilled to have three great co-hosts, to help us celebrate the 2010 class of Multichannel News Wonder Women on March 24th, at the Grand Hyatt in New York," Larry Dunn, the publisher of Multichannel News and Broadcasting & Cable, said. "We are very thankful to Katty, Kiran and Teresa, for taking the time out of their busy schedules, to join us on stage. It will be a great event."
For more information about the event, please visit http://www.multichannel.com/info/1710-2010_Wonder_Women_Registration.php.
