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HER co-workers describe her as warm and friendly on the outside, but once you get beneath the surface, they say a metamorphosis takes place. Born and raised in Kingston, Zahra Burton recalls growing up with two working parents who saw her fit for either a paediatrician or hotelier after she did a hotel internship one summer.

Zahra Burton is a Jamaican journalist and beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Miss Jamaica Universe [1] She is a former Bloomberg News reporter and is currently the host of the television news magazine 18 Degrees North that covers the Caribbean region.

It was here that she was sold on the career path that would later chart her course through life. I had to come back because of immigration reasons, as at that point there were no jobs. After going through her period of depression, Burton told All Woman that her turning point came in , when she decided to pick up the pieces and start again, after reading Live Your Dream by Les Brown, a book her mother gave her to help her regain her confidence.

Ready to take on the world, she also entered the Miss Jamaica Universe competition that year, which she won, gaining the required personal boost. In the midst of regaining her enthusiasm, Burton also worked as a reporter at Television Jamaica, but she admits that the fire to work as an international journalist kept blazing and while on the local scene, she focused her energy on achieving what she really wanted.

He taught me a lot about the field and gave me a lot of assignments. But I knew I wanted more and I got more. And so, after completing a master of arts in broadcast journalism in from the Annenberg School of Communication at the University of Southern California, Burton reemerged on the international scene for a short stint as a field producer for Making It, a Nelson Davis Productions show aired on KTLA Channel 5.

It was the worst job of my life. It was the beginning of my advancement. However, launching out was no easy walk for Burton, and she says her determination, which she describes as a natural trait, had to take the forefront.

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I am very resourceful and I do it honestly. Burton, who was also named as a fellow in investigative journalism at the Logan Symposium at the University of California at Berkley, enjoys amusement parks and dancing up a storm whenever she gets the chance. She is also intolerant and impatient of incompetence and mediocrity, and says her wish is to see much more being done in the area of investigative journalism.

We have a lot of work to do.