Myrka Dellanos: Faith Cost Her Jobs
On a panel, she said she was asked not to talk about God on air and that speaking her mind cost her two jobs.
Myrka Dellanos said in Miami, on the panel "When Reporting Has a Price" at the Media Music Marketing Summit 2026, that proclaiming her faith cost her jobs in television and radio. Christian Post reported it.
Dellanos hosted Primer Impacto on Univision between 1992 and 2004 and then moved to Telemundo. Today she publishes news and devotionals on her YouTube channel. On the panel, she talked about two intersecting topics: how news is put together and what happens when someone says out loud that they believe in Jesus.
How News Gets Twisted
For Dellanos, journalism was based on verifiable facts. That boundary was blurred, she said, when opinion and activism entered daily newscasts.
«Pressure almost never comes with shouts»
There's a detail almost no one notices: the question already contains the answer. If the script asks whether a politician decided against a certain group, the judgment came before the fact. She compares that to what she taught fifteen years ago at the University of Miami.
During the COVID-19 crisis, she said, directives and producers pushed a single narrative. Doctors who thought differently didn't get on air. Her bosses replied that you couldn't go against science, even though those others were also medical graduates from the same universities.
She also said they changed her scripts. She wrote something and they took it out. At that point, she understood that real journalism can't be done that way.
The Price of Not Staying Silent
Personally, she stated that for decades her references to God were left out of magazines and entertainment coverage. A news president called her before going on air to ask if she was going to talk about God while giving the information.
Her response, as she recounted, was that they could trust her professionalism, but that her faith is part of her and people already know it. More than once she was asked not to say something and she said it anyway: "It has happened to me on television, it has happened to me on radio. Yes, it cost me my job in both."
She tells it as a decision, not an oversight. She maintains that God opens doors where He wants and closes them with purpose, and that's why she could keep going.
Does that apply in your part-time job, at college, or in your class WhatsApp group? Pressure almost never comes with shouts. It comes with a joke you're expected to laugh at, with silence when you say you're going to church, with a "don't bring religion here" said in passing. That was already written: "Indeed, all who desire to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted" (2 Timothy 3:12, ESV).
Opening the Bible and Praying
On her YouTube channel, she combines news with high social impact with live broadcasts of Bible reading and prayer. The most viewed, she said, is the simplest: opening the Bible and praying.
In November, her testimonial book "Where Are You, God? When Life Doesn't Make Sense" comes out, published by Editorial Shaddai. The title captures a question many ask when life gets messy.
Discerning what you consume is also part of faith. Before sharing a video or repeating a headline, ask yourself who is speaking, what data they show, and what they want you to feel.
And if saying you're a Christian has cost you something—a friendship, a shift, a grade—tell us below. Has it cost you anything to say you're a Christian?
