María Encarnación Valenzuela Conthe (born 1945), better known as Curry or Curri Valenzuela, is a Spanish journalist and writer.

Biography

After graduating from the , Curri Valenzuela began her career working for the EFE news agency, first in New York and Washington between 1967 and 1973, and later in London for three more years. During the Transition she was

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of '' Cambio 16'', and between 1982 and 1986 she was with EFE, in both cases in the National section. Between 1986 and 1992, Valenzuela was political editor of the magazine '' Tiempo''. Beginning in 1996 she was administrative director of Radio Televisión Española, nominated by the Popular Party, and more specifically its president

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. She has contributed independently to several media outlets. From 2004 to 2010 she directed and presented Telemadrid's talk show ''Alto y Claro''. In September 2010 she was signed by from the

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group to host a national television talk show, which was broadcast for less than a year. In 2009, after an online trolling campaign by

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, '' FHM'' chose Valenzuela as the sexiest and most serious journalist on Spanish television. Since September 2011 she has written for the talk show ''Con el mundo a cuestas'', which is directed and presented by journalist on channel . She has also written for the Telemadrid program ''El Círculo'', which is directed and presented by . Since July 2012 she has directed and presented the political and economic analysis program ''La Tertulia de Curri'' on . Since September 2013 she has contributed to the talk show '' Los Desayunos de TVE'' on La 1, and the radio program ', directed and presented by . Since September 2014 she has also been a panelist on the program ', which is presented by journalist Inés Ballester on La 1. She was married to journalist .

Works

Curri Valenzuela has written four books to date. * ''100 personajes que hunden España'' (2007) * ''Sola'' (2008) * ''Los culpables de la crisis'' (2009) * ''Yo no me quiero jubilar'' (2012)

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Valenzuela, Curri 1945 births Living people Writers from Málaga Spanish political commentators Spanish television presenters Spanish women journalists Spanish women television presenters