Mónica Carrillo Martínez

Mónica Carrillo Martínez (born 16 September 1976) is a Spanish journalist and writer who works for Antena 3 on its Antena 3 Noticias news bulletins. She has worked for Televisión Española on the 24 horas rolling news channel, co-founded the PSOE Media Monitoring Office, and has read the news on Antena 3 Noticias since 2006. Carrillo has broadcast on the radio stations Europa FM and Onda Cero. She is the author of four books and was voted the winner of the Premio Azorín accolade in 2020.

Biography On 16 September 1976, Carrillo was born in Elche, Alicante, Spain. Most of her family originate from Murcia and she has one brother. Carrillo was brought up in Elche. Nobody in her family had either studied or worked in journalism. At first, she left Elche to study for a career in architecture and a diploma in tourism at the University of Alicante. In 2000, Carrillo graduated with a degree in journalism from the Charles III University of Madrid and she also studied English, French and German following a year of studying in Munich on the Erasmus Mundus programme. working as an intern at EFE Radio as a newsreader, voice-over and writer for over a single year. Carrillo began working in the national news section of the state broadcaster Televisión Española (RTVE) on a scholarship for a three-month period in mid-2000, doing the day's first and second news bulletins presented by Ana Blanco and Alfredo Urdaci. Starting from September 2009, Carrillo and Roberto Arce co-read the Antena 3 Noticias 1 news bulletin broadcast at 3:00 pm. Carrillo thus continued to present Antena 3 Noticias 1 with Vicente Vallés until 2012 and then read the Antena 3 Noticias 2 bulletin with Prats from 3 September 2012. and she began collaborating with Juan Ramón Lucas and on the Onda Cero radio programme as the current affairs correspondent in September 2016. Carrillo joined the team that presented the LaSexta programme En busca de la longevidad in which she travelled to Japan to discuss the Asian nation and the science world. Carrillo participated in the first series of the singing competition Mask Singer: Adivina quién canta as a guest masked singer on its third episode, performing Adele's song Someone Like You to "break down mental walls".

She also began a career in writing through authoring micro-stories on Twitter and had considered writing stories with more than 140 characters. In 2014, Carrillo published her first novel, La Luz de Candela. Her second novel, Olvidé decirte quiero, was published two years later. In 2017, Carrillo published a complication book of Twitter micro-stories called El tiempo Todo Locura. She published her third novel, La vida desnuda, in 2020.

Personal life She was in a relationship with the singer Vanesa Martín Mata from 2019 until 2022. Carillo mainly keeps her private life discreet from the public and is shy. In 2020, she was diagnosed with the skin cancer basal cell carcinoma on her nose that was later removed with precision surgery.

Awards In both 2009 and 2017, Carrillo won the TP de Oro award for the best news programme on Antena 3 Noticias. She was voted the winner of the 2020 Premio Azorín accolade by the Provincial Council of Alicante and the publishing house Planeta Group for her novel La vida desnuda and attended the ceremony under the pseudonym Martina Suárez.