16 The Courier sun • april 9, 2015 FOR BREAKING NEWS VISIT www.couriersun.com “Leap of faith” leads Liz Faublas to Currents anchor chair After 13 years with a major cable news channel, Liz Faublas wanted something more fulfilling from her career and chose to take a “leap of faith.” The Brooklyn native and current Jamaica Hills resident was Bloomberg Television’s floor reporter at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) when she decided in 2011 to look for something new. She resigned from that post, then spent the next five months searching for a new opportunity. It finally happened in January 2012 when The NET, the official cable channel of the Diocese of Brooklyn and Queens, gave her the opportunity of a lifetime: to anchor the network’s Currents, the first Catholic daily news program in the U.S. “It was a blessing in all forms, not only because of needing to find someplace where I would be happy and, of course, start a salary again, but also because it combines everything I love: journalism, writing and my faith,” said Faublas, who described herself as a devout Catholic. Airing weeknights on The NET, Currents offers a blend of both local, national and international news from a Catholic perspective. The newscasts include profiles of local schools, sports teams, interviews with Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio, stories about major ethical issues affecting the country and news from The Vatican. “You never want people to hear faithbased news and yawn,” Faublas said. “We do try to find the secular aspect of stories that will grab the viewer’s attention and mix it with the faith-based aspect of it to let them know why it’s important to them.” Faublas’ first big story at Currents came just a few weeks into the new job, when she was assigned to travel to Vatican City to cover the consistory ceremony where then-Pope Benedict XVI elevated New York Archbishop Timothy Dolan to a cardinal. The Currents anchor expressed particular enthusiasm about covering Pope Francis on a daily-basis and his upcoming trip to the United States this September. Currents and The NET will provide extensive coverage of the Holy Father’s journey to the World Youth conference in Philadelphia and a brief visit to New York City, where he is expected to address the United Nations General Assembly. A product of a Catholic education, Faublas attended Holy Innocence Grammar School and then Nazareth High School. Following her September 1991 graduation from St. John’s University, she earned her first media job with Time Warner Cable, working at its Quantum movie service, a forerunner to modern on-demand entertainment channels. She later joined NY1 news and worked at the Today Show for NBC before joining Bloomberg Television as an associate producer. She would go on to produce and anchor the network’s After the Bell report from the NYSE every afternoon. But at The NET, Faublas said, she sees “the opportunity for growth” and hopes that Currents will eventually achieve status as one of the major nightly news programs in the New York City area. “It may be a very lofty endeavor but we produce good stories,” she added. “We do good news, and I really believe we have what it takes to match up with any secular news program. Given the resources and the time, we will be among that lineup.” Along with her faith in God for steering her on the path to Currents, Faublas also credits her daughter, Ashley, for being “my motivation for everything,” adding that “she’s a huge art of where I am.”
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