Nina Terrero Groth is an American communications professional and former entertainment journalist. She previously worked for ABC News, NBC Latino and Entertainment Weekly, and later joined Target Corporation.
Early life Terrero Groth is of Puerto Rican and Dominican descent. She was raised in central New Jersey.
Education Terrero Groth graduated from Cornell University in 2007, with a degree in government and minors in science and technology studies and law and society. As an undergraduate, Terrero Groth also studied at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland. She later earned a master's degree in political science from Columbia University's Graduate School of Arts and Sciences in 2010.
Career
Journalism Terrero Groth began her journalism career at ABC News in New York City. By early 2012, she had joined NBC News as a web producer on the team, developing NBC Latino, where she reported and produced stories on news, health, culture, family and food for Latino audiences. She later served as entertainment editor for NBC Latino.
Terrero Groth subsequently joined Entertainment Weekly. By 2016, she was a senior correspondent covering film, television, pop culture and style for the publication, as well as contributing to its digital and broadcast content. At Entertainment Weekly, Terrero Groth also hosted EW-branded video series for EW.com, contributed to the publications SiriusXM channel through celebrity interviews and entertainment commentary, and wrote recaps of television series including Jane the Virgin, Tyrant and The Royals.
Television and hosting By 2014, Terrero Groth was among the hosts of NUVOtv's The Collective, Powered by Vevo, a series covering music, style, technology and entertainment. Terrero Groth also made on-air appearances on The Today Show and The Wendy Williams Show, and appeared on People NOW during her journalism career.
Corporate communications Terrero Groth later moved from journalism into corporate communications at Target Corporation. By 2018, she was working on Target's communications team. That year, Twin Cities Business reported on her social-media coverage of Target's National Meeting in Minneapolis, where Serena Williams and Alexis Ohanian appeared as speakers. In 2021, Terrero Groth was listed as a senior communications business partner for food and beverage at Target. In an interview on The New Motherhood Plan podcast, Terrero Groth said that she moved from New York to Minnesota before joining Target and described the transition as a shift from journalism into corporate communications.
By 2023, after nearly six years with the company, Terrero Groth had moved into a role managing recruitment and pipeline engagement for Target Accelerators, Target's small-business accelerator programs. By 2024, she was identified as Lead Accelerators Pipeline Manager for Target Accelerators.
Community involvement In 2024, Terrero Groth joined the Women's Foundation of Minnesota's Community Power Committee as a community leader. The committee participates in the foundation's participatory grant-making process, with members appointed to two-year terms.
Awards In 2012, Terrero Groth was included in The Huffington Post's list of “50 Top Latino Voices to Follow on Twitter.” That year, she also received the National Hispanic Medical Association's Public Health Education through Media Leadership Award for her health reporting. In May 2013, The Huffington Post' included her among its “Rising Stars You Should Watch in Social Media and Journalism.”
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