Carmen covers all types of market stories with the
skills honed during 15 years of business news experience. Whether covering
the global credit crisis, Wall Street scandals, the perils of rising crude prices or any other story Carmen puts it all in perspective for investors.
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Beyond the world of fast-paced
daily news, Carmen has created moving in-depth television programming. As producer-reporter for the hour documentary, A Brave New
World, Business Opportunities and Obstacles in Eastern Europe, she led a
news crew to Eastern Europe just months after the fall of the Berlin Wall.
After digesting months of
research, weeks of interviews and tons of footage, Carmen wrote, voiced, and edited the
documentary. It showed how after 40 years of communist control, the people of
Eastern Europe declared, "Communism doesn't work; we must start again." Those young democracies were looking to the West for economic and moral support, but what
kind of opportunities or obstacles were there? Would the West be able to pull those
crumbling economies into the competitive global market?
Through Carmen's reporting,
viewers saw tiny cars rumble over 100-year-old cobblestone streets, watched smokestacks of
old factories fill the skies with pollution, and felt the frustration of people who feared
losing their jobs in the free marketplace. Yet they also saw the excitement of new
entrepreneurs eager to do business with the West, and experienced the spirit of the people
who demanded freedom, a better life and a chance to join the rest of the world.
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Carmen was a contributing reporter
for PBS's Nightly Business Report in Miami.
During her five years of reporting for Suncoast
Business Journal, Carmen covered general business news for
Tampa Bay
and Florida. Among the countless news stories she covered, Carmen followed breaking
business news, such as the arrest of an inside-trader, created in-depth special reports on
topics including business in space, and produced profiles of successful business leaders.
She also covered a wide variety of local
news stories for Eyewitness News at WTOG-44 in the
Tampa Bay area.
