Marysol Castro
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Castro at the 2008 Tribeca Film Festival
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| Born | Marysol Castro September 29, 1976 Bronx, New York City, New York, United States |
| Education | Wesleyan University Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism |
| Occupation | former anchor pix 11 morning news |
| Years active | 2000–present |
Marysol Castro is an American broadcast journalist who was recently employed as a news anchor at WPIX in New York. She also was a weather forecaster for The Early Show on CBS in 2011 and a features correspondent for the weekend edition of Good Morning America on ABC from 2004 to 2010. In June 2015 Castro joined New Haven based WTNH-TV. to fill-in for weekday morning traffic reports and anchor until mid-November 2015.
Early life and career
Born on September 27, 1976 to Puerto Rican parents in New York City,[1] Castro was raised in the Bronx and attended Public School 83 and Intermediate School 181. She later attended Westtown School, a Quaker boarding school in Pennsylvania and graduated from Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1996.[2] She later obtained a Master of Arts in journalism from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.
Prior to her career with ABC News, Castro was a general assignment reporter for WPIX in New York. She worked as a reporter for News 12, a local cable news network in the Bronx. She taught briefly at Poly Prep Country Day School in Brooklyn as an English teacher. In September 2010, Castro left GMA Weekend. On January 3, 2011, as part of a complete show overhaul, Castro became the weekday weather forecaster for The Early Show on CBS replacing Dave Price.[3] On September 2, 2011, it was announced that she would be leaving her post as weather anchor effective immediately.[4]
In June 2015, Castro joined WTNH-TV ABC 8 in New Haven, CT to fill in as weekday morning traffic reporter and anchor. Castro was relieved of her fill-in duties in November 2015 and later left the station.
In July 2015, she joined ESPN as host of Premier Boxing Champions on ESPN.[5]
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