KARINA HUBER 

Karina Huber is a freelance reporter in New York. She specializes in producing and fronting character-driven stories around climate change, business, gender and health. In 2016, she won a Gracie Award for her six-minute feature on maternal mortality in the U.S. titled “Forgotten Mothers” produced for CGTN America.

Her interest in journalism started when she was a young girl listening to her aunt, Hilary Brown, a flamboyant foreign correspondent, regale her with stories about her adventures in Vietnam, Iran, and Pakistan. She caught the bug and dived headfirst into television at the age of 23 becoming a host on a French music video channel in Montreal. Interviewing rock stars in English and then translating what they said into French live on television was a trial by fire that taught her how to think quickly on her feet. She eventually ended up in Toronto hosting numerous shows and interviewing more rock stars for MuchMoreMusic for four years.

It was a two-hour weekly show on A&E called “Breakfast with the Arts” that brought Karina to New York in 2005. The show featured long format interviews with writers, directors and performers including Phil Collins, Sandra Bernhard and Diane Keaton. She also traveled to New Zealand, Tahiti, Panama, Monaco and St. Vincent and the Grenadines with the show to host cultural travelogues on the regions.

In 2008 Karina strengthened her journalism career by completing a Masters of Science degree at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. She worked at Reuters Television in New York and Washington as a producer covering events as varied as the U.N. General Assembly and New York Fashion Week along with the news of the day. In 2009 she became the New York business correspondent for one of Reuters’ clients - an Indian business channel called ET Now. For two years she provided daily live hits on the markets from the NASDAQ and produced packaged pieces on business news. She also spent two months guest hosting on “Daily Planet” a science and technology show in Toronto for Discovery Canada.

In 2009 Karina freelanced for CNN and CNN International, filling in for the business correspondent at the New York Stock Exchange. That same year she was offered a contract position at CGTN America, where she has freelanced ever since, producing feature stories for the news and business divisions. She also filled-in for their anchor on their nightly business show for four years. In 2011 she hosted a morning business show for AOL for two years. She now also does voice overs for PBS NewsHour Weekend and Amanpour & Co.

Karina lives in New York with her son and two cats.