Barbara Campos Biography
Barbara Campos is a young, talented, and promising bilingual reporter. Her real name is Barbara Penelope Campos. As of 2022, she is serving as the reporter at Telemundo and CBS Austin. She has worked for less than 5 years but has demonstrated the potential to become an influential reporter. She has served at Telemundo Laredo and Gray Television.
Barbara Campos Age and Spouse
She is a first-generation immigrant born on 26th July 1997 in Laredo, Texas. She celebrated her 25th birthday at her workplace with her colleagues. Coming from a Hispanic background, Campos values the importance of family and friends. She is in a relationship with her long-time boyfriend, Alex Suarez. The two have been dating since college.
Barbara Campos Education and Career
Barbara is living her childhood dreams. She wanted to be an actress or serve as a journalist. Fortunately, she got to serve both. She started pursuing her dreams at Arizona State University where she did BA in Political Science. The young journalist later joined The University of Houston where she did Public Relations and a minor in Political Science. Campos later joined the University of Texas at San Antonio where she did a degree in communication, general.
In college, she had the opportunity to participate in many journalism activities. Barbara also featured and directed the film, Gecky. As a student, she interned at FOX 29 and News 4. There, she worked with other reporters, learned to do photo shoots and pitched news stories, and learned to edit videos.
After completing her studies, she started working as a morning news anchor for KGNS at Gray Television. She learned to report in Spanish. Barbara also became familiar with the ropes of journalism as she was tasked with doing shoots, writing, and editing newscasts. She also assisted in creating content for the station’s website. After 1 year and 5 months of serving there, she joined Telemundo as an on-air reporter whose other duties were writing Sunday newscasts in Spanish.
In February 2022, Campos was called at Sinclair Broadcast Group where she was working as a bilingual reporter for Telemundo and CBS Austin. Her main responsibility was to distribute news in the Spanish language to the Hispanic market. The behind the scene duties were shooting, doing interviews, engaging with the public, and liaising with other reporters.
Barbara Campos Instagram, Height and Salary
In her short time as a journalist, Barbara has covered the impact of COVID-19 in the country and the measure people employed to protect their livelihood, mental health crises among the youth, protests, and crime in the community.
When she is not in professional duties, she loves spending time with her boyfriend, going on dinner dates, and visiting her parents. She is active on Instagram with more than 7k followers and updates her followers with her work and personal life. In addition to her profession, her beauty is creamed by her height of 5 feet and 6 inches. Being new in the journalism business, her annual salary could be approximately $60,000. Her special skills are fluency in Spanish despite growing up in the United States, excellent strategic communication skills, and being a dependable problem solver.