{"id":481352,"date":"2026-10-30T11:48:37","date_gmt":"2026-10-30T11:48:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/481352\/"},"modified":"2026-10-30T11:48:37","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T11:48:37","slug":"former-cbs-news-reporter-joins-wfaa-after-three-year-stint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/481352\/","title":{"rendered":"Former CBS News reporter joins WFAA after three-year stint"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fort Worth<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s a new reporter at WFAA-TV.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/nikiya_c\/\" rel=\"Follow nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nikiya Carrero<\/a> announced earlier this week that she\u2019s joining the Dallas-based station after spending the last three years at CBS News Miami (WFOR-TV).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have joined the news team at WFAA in Dallas as a reporter! Super ecstatic to join such a legendary station and continue my career as a journalist,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/De-auaCxGoO\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;ig_rid=AJ0OuEIyaDVNvLa2zMh5p6-\" rel=\"Follow nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Carrero wrote on Instagram.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Carrero is originally from Miami and graduated from Barry University in Miami Shores, Florida.<\/p>\n<p>She began her career at KX News in Bismarck, North Dakota, and later worked at WJCL-TV in Savannah, Georgia. After that, she returned home to join CBS News Miami.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfac In case you missed it: <\/p>\n<p>WFAA-TV has welcomed a few new faces this year.<\/p>\n<p>Reporter <a href=\"https:\/\/www.star-telegram.com\/entertainment\/fort-worth\/article316632289.html\" rel=\"Follow nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Erin Heft<\/a> and meteorologist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.star-telegram.com\/entertainment\/fort-worth\/article316939198.html\" rel=\"Follow nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Drew Davis<\/a> both joined the team over the summer.<\/p>\n<p>        Related Stories from  Fort Worth Star-Telegram<\/p>\n<p>                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.star-telegram.com\/profile\/259144728\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n                        <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"author-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1793360917_549_BraydenHeadshot.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" alt=\"Profile Image of Brayden Garcia\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n                    <\/a><\/p>\n<p>                <a class=\"author-name\" href=\"https:\/\/www.star-telegram.com\/profile\/259144728\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brayden Garcia<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                    Fort Worth Star-Telegram<\/p>\n<p>            Brayden Garcia is the entertainment reporter at the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, where he mainly writes about how the film and TV industry impacts North Texas, from Taylor Sheridan shows to the Fort Worth Film Commission and everything in between.\n            <\/p>\n<p>    <script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fort Worth There\u2019s a new reporter at WFAA-TV. Nikiya Carrero announced earlier this week that she\u2019s joining the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":481353,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-481352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-headlines","tag-fort-worth-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=481352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481352\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/481353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=481352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}