During her studies, Letizia worked for the Asturian daily newspaper "La Nueva España" and later for the newspaper "ABC" and the news agency EFE. After completing her master's degree, she travelled to Guadalajara, Mexico, working at the newspaper "Siglo 21" and was working on her PhD; however, she did not complete her doctoral thesis because she returned to Spain. After returning to Spain, she worked for the Spanish version of the economic channel Bloomberg before moving to the news network CNN+.