Silvia Corzo

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Silvia Corzo

Silvia Milena Corzo Pinto (born October 30, 1973 in Bucaramanga) is a Colombian lawyer, journalist and newscaster.

Her parents are Mario Corzo and Irene Pinto.^[1] After finishing high school, Silvia studied at the Universidad Autónoma de Bucaramanga, where she majored in Law. In 1995, during her fifth and final year of college, her family signed her up for the Señorita Santander ("Miss Santander") beauty contest, where she was the second runner-up.^[2] She considers that if she had won, she would not have finished her college studies, but would have become a model, an actress or a housewife.^[3]

According to her, she has always fancied working in the media and, although she has worked as a lawyer, she prefers human rights issues because she does not consider herself good at litigating.^[4]

[edit] Media career

After graduating from college, Silvia hosted a radio show about human rights on the Universidad Industrial de Santander station, while working at the Bucaramanga branch of the Defensoría del Pueblo (namely the Ombudsman office). In 1997, she was offered to host a television show at the brand new TRO local station.

After getting married, she moved to Cali, where she worked at the Contraloría (State Comptroller office) of that city. At the same time, she hosted the Noticiero del Pacífico at Telepacífico on weekends.

A new transfer of her husband took her to Bogotá. Since December 16, 2002, she has been one of the newscasters at Caracol Noticias (a Colombian national-wide TV news show), where she also manages its health segments, previously in charge by Claudia Palacios, who left for CNN en Español in 2004.

In 2004 she was nominated as the Female News Personality of the Year at the Premio INTE, because of her "warmness and reliability",^[5] and in 2005 she was awarded with the Premio Canal Caracol to the best female newscaster. On late 2006 she co-hosted the Noticiero Internacional, produced in Colombia and broadcasted by the Key West, Florida-based WGEN-TV station.

Ms. Corzo divorced her first husband and re-married in December 2006^[6]. She lives with her son Pablo in Bogotá.