Shanik Berman

Shanik Berman born in Mexico City to Jewish immigrant parents from Slovakia who crossed the Atlantic after surviving the Second World War. She has studies in Literature and Languages in Mexico, Paris and the United States.

Berman became a showbiz reporter in the late 1970's and has since then become one of the icons of Showbiz Journalism in Mexico. Her staple show Intimamente Shanik was a pioneer in Mexican Television in handling previously censored subjects such as sex, divorces, infidelity, etc.

Currently she writes a column for "ESTO (Sports Newspaper)", and for "TV Notas" the best-selling gossip magazine in Mexico, has a daily radio show "Shanik en Fórmula" broadcasted nationally in Mexico and worldwide through Radio Fórmula and collaborates in daily TV show by Televisa "Viva la Mañana".

She is the author of 2 books, "Más cornadas da el hombre" (1982) about the lives and personalities of bullfighters and "Muy cerca del ombligo" (1985) a satire about the showbiz world in Mexico.