If you take the more general role of going to local stations around the country in Montana or South Carolina or wherever, and start in the local news, it's a lot more difficult to get to the stories that you want to really cover.

's Extra where Maria Menounos will co-host the show with Mario Lopez. Menounos also directed Longtime Listener starring Wilmer Valderrama. During her senior year Maria Menounos was hired as a reporter for Channel One News.

She is known in the United States for her appearances as a correspondent for Today Access Hollywood Extra and abroad for co-hosting the Eurovision Song Contest 2006 in Athens Greece.