Shirley Varnagy

Shirley Varnagy
Born	Shirley Varnagy Bronfenmajer (1982-02-01) February 1, 1982 (age 41) Caracas, Venezuela
Other names	Shirley Varnagy
Alma mater	Universidad Católica Andrés Bello
Occupation(s)	Radio personality, television host, producer, journalist
Years active	2007–present
Known for	Shirley
Children	2
Website	www.shirleyvarnagy.com

Shirley Varnagy Bronfenmajer (born February 1, 1982 in Caracas) is a Venezuelan journalist, writer and television and radio presenter of Jewish origin. ^[1]

Biography

Varnagy was born into a Hungarian Jewish family. Her grandparents were survivors of the Holocaust, including one who was imprisoned in the Mauthausen Concentration Camp. ^{[2] [3]} She completed her Social Communication studies at the Andrés Bello Catholic University, where she graduated with honours. Her first job in the media was as a news anchorwoman for Planeta FM, and later as the producer for Gladys Rodríguez's show on Circuito X FM; later she worked as a producer for the Venezuelan TV news channel Globovisión, which they gave her the opportunity to cover well-known journalists like Carla Angola in the primetime show "Buenas Noches". In television, Varnagy has worked not only for Globovisión, but also for the extinct RCTV. ^[4] On March 6, 2015 she became a mother for the second time, in this occasion of a girl, which has been named Naomi. ^[5]

Censorship and departure from Globovisión

On April 30, 2014, she quit Globovisión, after the transmission of her program, Shirley, was cut during an interview to the Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa, a harsh critic of the politics of the Venezuelan presidents Hugo Chávez and Nicolás Maduro, following a question that Varnagy asked the 2010 recipient of the Nobel Prize in relation to his opinion regarding the politics applied by the government of Venezuela. Varnagy described the interruption of the transmission of her show as "self-censorship" from the Board of the television channel. Eventually, the transmission of the entire interview was done through alternative means in different social networks. ^{[6] [7] [8] [9]}

Activities after Globovisión and return to TV

In November 2014, Varnagy publishes her first book, El Periodismo continúa, in which she reflects her impressions of the interviews made in her program Shirley until she left Globovisión. ^[10] Later, in January 2015, Varnagy began to host #ShirleyRadio, a radio show with interviews and music on the Éxitos radio network, part of the Venezuelan radio network Unión Radio. ^[11] In March 2016, Shirley Varnagy returns to television, hosting on the cable channel Venevisión Plus, her show Shirley, interviewing Venezuelan and foreign personalities and entertainers. ^[12]

References

1. Shirley Varnagy: “Siento a Israel como otra patria”.
2. Edición 516: Shirley Varnagy: Una cosa es libertad de expresión y otra, libertinaje
3. Shirley Varnagy: "No educo a mi hijo para defender la patria sino para construirla"
4. Shirley Varnagy está embarazada.
5. La Periodista Shirley Varnagy dió a luz una niña.
6. Another Journalist Quits at Globovision. Fusion (in English)
7. Shirley Varnagy renunció a Globovisión Archived May 2, 2014, at the Wayback Machine . Últimas Noticias
8. Venezuela’s Globovisión censors TV interview with author Vargas Llosa. El País (in English)
9. ¿Qué dijo Vargas Llosa para que Globovisión lo censure?
10. Shirley Varnagy presenta su primer libro Archived August 18, 2016, at the Wayback Machine .
11. Shirley Varnagy: "Somos una sociedad más entretenida que informada".
12. Comienza "Shirley” por Venevisión Plus.