Shanik Berman is a journalist. She was born in Mexico City to Jewish immigrant parents from Slovakia

Slovakia

The Slovak Republic is a landlocked state in Central Europe. It has a population of over five million and an area of about . Slovakia is bordered by the Czech Republic and Austria to the west, Poland to the north, Ukraine to the east and Hungary to the south...

 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 1970s 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

Gossip magazine

Gossip magazines feature scandalous stories about the personal lives of celebrities. This genre of magazine flourished in North America in the 1950s and early 1960s. The title Confidential alone boasted a monthly circulation in excess of ten million, and it had many competitors, with names like...

 in Mexico, has a daily radio show Shanik en Fórmula broadcast nationally in Mexico and worldwide through Radio Fórmula and collaborates in daily TV show by Televisa Viva la Mañana

Viva la Mañana

Viva la Mañana is a Spanish-language morning talk show, that is transmitted through channels 2 and 4 on the Salvadoran television network Telecorporación Salvadoreña . The program is transmitted Monday through Friday from 8:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m...

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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.

She started to be a journalist in 1980 and the book Mas Cornadas da el Hombre was published in 1983.