Ana Navarro is known best these days as a co-host on ABC’s “ The View ,” but she isn’t likely to bring up the connection when she hosts an evening of the Democratic National Convention this week.

Although “The View” operates under the aegis of ABC News , Navarro is not held to the same standards as its full-time journalists, because she is an opinion-focused contributor to the program, according to a person familiar with the matter, not a traditional journalist who is expected to avoid any potential appearance of bias. ABC News declined to make executives available for comment, but her role at “The View” is not expected to be referenced publicly.

Her appearance at the convention this week has drawn some criticism on social media as well as stories by outlets such as Fox News and Entertainment Weekly.

“I can’t tell you how much it means to me,” Navarro shared in a video she posted on Instagram. “I’m a little refugee girl who fled communism, who fled Nicaragua at the age of eight, found freedom, found opportunity, found a home in America, and for me to have the chance to stand on that stage and help my girl, Kamala, make history and become the Democratic nominee, it’s just such a mind-blowing moment.”

Navarro also contributes to Warner Bros. Discovery’s CNN, where she appears as a commentator.

News outlets can only do so much about the activities of the outside analysts they curate for audiences — even if such operatives often help them strike a connection with viewers. In 2020, for example, Lisa Ling, then the host of one of CNN’s original series, made appearances in an eight-part promotional video series on behalf of Johnson & Johnson, the pharmaceutical giant. CNN at the time was limited in its ability to govern the host’s activities outside the scope of her work for the outlet, because she was not a full-time member of its news staff. Ling joined CBS News as a contributor in May of 2023.

But they can control the activities of their full-time employees in a strict manner. George Stephanopoulos found in 2015 that he had to apologize to ABC News viewers , for example, after it was discovered he had not revealed donations he made to the Clinton Foundation. Stephanopoulos was allowed to donate to charities of his choice under the unit’s ethics guidelines, but erred in not informing viewers of the contributions when reporting on topics related to the Clintons. In 2010, MSNBC suspended anchor Keith Olbermann for donating to political candidates without getting permission from superiors, a violation of company policy at the time.

Navarro’s connection to ABC News goes back at least a decade. She has been a contributor to “The View” since 2013 and a political commentator at the Disney-backed news organization since 2014.