List of Famous TV Journalists
- Born in Arlington, Virginia in 1957, Katherine Anne Couric, better known as Katie Couric, has carved out a remarkable career in the world of broadcast journalism. The youngest of four children, she inherited her love for news and reporting from her public relations executive father. Couric graduated with a degree in American Studies from the University of Virginia in 1979, demonstrating early on her keen interest in understanding the fabric of American society. Her professional journey kicked off at ABC News Bureau before she landed a role as an assignment editor for CNN. However, it was her stint at NBC's Today show that catapulted Couric into the national spotlight. She co-hosted the popular morning news program from 1991 until 2006, earning the reputation as one of America's most beloved television personalities. Her trademark blend of accessible charm and incisive interviewing skills won her several awards, including multiple Emmys and a Peabody. In 2006, Couric moved to CBS, making history as the first woman to anchor a major network evening news program solo when she took over CBS Evening News. After five years, she transitioned to ABC News, where she served as a special correspondent. Couric has also showcased her talent through her syndicated talk show, Katie, and several high-profile interviews with influential figures. As a prolific author, her books offer a further glimpse into her insights and experiences. Outside her professional life, Couric is a tireless advocate for cancer research, a cause close to her heart following the loss of her husband to colon cancer.
- Barbara Walters, born on September 25, 1929, in Boston, Massachusetts, is a pioneering figure in American broadcast journalism. The daughter of Dena (Seletsky) and Lou Walters, a Broadway producer and nightclub owner, she channeled her exposure to the entertainment world into a career in journalism. Walters graduated with a degree in English from Sarah Lawrence College in 1951. She began her career as a writer and researcher for NBC's The Today Show, eventually climbing the ranks to become the first female co-host of the show in 1974. Walters's groundbreaking career has seen her interview a myriad of influential figures, from celebrities to world leaders. Her distinctive interviewing style, which combines probing questions with a personal approach, has made her an icon in the field. Known for her ability to elicit emotional responses from her subjects, Walters has conducted some of the most-watched interviews in television history. Among her notable interviewees are Fidel Castro, Michael Jackson, and Monica Lewinsky, the latter drawing an astonishing 74 million viewers. In 1976, Walters made history once again by becoming the first woman to co-anchor a network evening news program when she joined ABC Evening News. Despite facing initial criticism, she became a respected figure in the industry. In addition to her work on news programs, Walters also created and co-hosted The View, a popular daytime talk show that debuted in 1997. Over the years, Walters has received multiple awards for her contribution to journalism, including a Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. Her legacy continues to inspire aspiring journalists around the world.
- Matthew Todd Lauer (; born December 30, 1957) is an American former television news anchor. He was the co-host of NBC's Today show from 1997 to 2017, and a contributor for Dateline NBC. With NBC, he hosted the annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade from 1998 to 2017 and co-hosted the opening ceremonies of several Olympic Games. He was also previously a news anchor for The Today Show from 1994 to 1997, anchor for WNBC in New York City and served as a local talk-show host in various cities (including co-hosting various local versions of PM Magazine) and entertainment news segments for HBO .Following allegations of his inappropriate sexual behavior, Lauer's contract was terminated by NBC in November 2017 after NBC reported receiving "a detailed complaint from a colleague about inappropriate sexual behavior in the workplace" but added that the network had "reason to believe this may not have been an isolated incident".
- Al Roker, born Albert Lincoln Roker Jr., is an accomplished American weather forecaster, television presenter, author, and actor. He was born on August 20, 1954, in Queens, New York, showcasing a deep interest in broadcasting from an early age. His education at the State University of New York at Oswego, where he received a degree in communications, further solidified his passion for media. Roker's career has been marked by significant accomplishments in the world of television. His longstanding tenure as a weather anchor on NBC's The Today Show began in 1996, following an initial period as a fill-in. Roker's amiable personality and professionalism established him as a household name. He additionally gained recognition for reporting on some of the most destructive hurricanes in U.S. history. Beyond his weather-forecasting duties, Roker pioneered innovative programming as the CEO of Al Roker Entertainment, a leading producer of original TV content. In addition to his television career, Roker has made his mark as an author. He has penned several non-fiction books, including an acclaimed memoir titled Never Goin' Back: Winning the Weight Loss Battle For Good, which details his personal journey with weight loss and health. His noteworthy contributions have earned him multiple Emmy Awards, further attesting to his impact on the entertainment industry.
- Lara Logan is an actress who appeared in "60 Minutes," and "Person To Person."
- Though most television viewers knew Lisa Ling from her 1999-2002 stint as co-host of "The View" (ABC, 1997- ), she first distinguished herself as an investigative reporter at age 15. She continued to do so as host of "National Geographic Explorer" (National Geographic Television, 1985- ), and as a special correspondent for "The Oprah Winfrey Show" (syndicated, 1986-2011), for which she traveled the globe and braved dangerous situations to spotlight humanitarian concerns like child trafficking in Ghana and the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina on the residents of New Orleans. From her first few months on "The View," it became apparent that this educated and passionate voice would need more than celebrity gossip to sustain her, and upon her departure Ling was inundated with offers to bring her journalistic talent to a wide range of television outlets.
- Mélissa Theuriau (French pronunciation: [melisa tœʁjo]; born July 18, 1978) is a French journalist and news anchor for M6. She studied journalism and became a television news presenter. She is the former anchor and co-editor in chief of Zone interdite on French TV.
- Ashleigh Banfield, born on December 29, 1967, in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, is a seasoned journalist and television host known for her incisive reporting and dynamic presence in the news industry. She gained prominence as a correspondent and anchor for major networks, covering significant events that have shaped global and national narratives. Banfield's career took off at MSNBC, where she became widely recognized for her coverage of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. Her on-the-ground reporting and thoughtful analysis earned her acclaim and numerous accolades. Later, she joined CNN, hosting "Legal View with Ashleigh Banfield" (2012-2014), where she provided in-depth insights into high-profile legal cases and national news. In addition to her roles at MSNBC and CNN, Banfield has worked with networks such as Fox, where she appeared in "America's Most Wanted: America Fights Back" (1988-) and ABC News, where she was a correspondent in "20/20" (1978). She is also known for her work at A&E, hosting "Live Rescue" (2019-2021), a reality show documenting first responders in action. Banfield also made guest appearances in movies and TV shows like "This Revolution" (2004) and "Don't Look Up" (2021). Currently, Banfield hosts the eponymous news program "Banfield" (2021-) on NewsNation, where she conducts in-depth interviews and delivers sharp commentary on pressing issues. Her enduring commitment to journalism and ability to adapt to the evolving media landscape have solidified her reputation as one of the most respected figures in the industry.
- Ann Curry (born November 19, 1956) is an American journalist and photojournalist who has been a reporter for more than 30 years, focused on human suffering in war zones and natural disasters. Curry has reported from the wars in Syria, Darfur, Congo, the Central African Republic, Kosovo, Lebanon, Israel, Afghanistan and Iraq. Curry has covered numerous disasters, including the tsunamis in Southeast Asia and the 2010 earthquake in Haiti, where her appeal via Twitter topped Twitter's 'most powerful' list, credited for helping speed the arrival of humanitarian planes.In June 2012, she became the national and international correspondent-anchor for NBC News and the anchor at large for the Today show. She was co-anchor of Today from June 9, 2011, to June 28, 2012, and the program's news anchor from March 1997 until becoming co-anchor. She was also the anchor of Dateline NBC from 2005 to 2011.On January 13, 2015, it was announced that Curry would be leaving NBC News after nearly 25 years. In January 2015, Curry founded her own multi-platform media startup. She continues to conduct major news interviews on network television, most recently securing an exclusive interview with Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif about the Iran nuclear talks.
- David James Koch ( KOSH; born 7 March 1956) nicknamed "Kochie" ( KOSH-ee) is an Australian television presenter best known as a host of the Seven Network's breakfast program Sunrise. From Adelaide, he began his media career as a financial journalist, writing for a number of different publications before eventually moving to television. Koch has been the chairman of the Port Adelaide Football Club, an Australian Football League (AFL) club, since October 2012.
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Joumana Marie Kidd (née Samaha) (born September 28, 1972) is an actress and journalist and former wife of retired NBA basketball star Jason Kidd.- Stephen James "Steve" Doocy (; born October 19, 1956) is host of Fox & Friends on Fox News and an author..
- Starlet Marie Jones (born March 24, 1962) is an American lawyer, journalist, television personality, fashion designer, author, and women's and diversity advocate. She is best known as one of the original co-hosts on the ABC morning talk show The View, on which she appeared from 1997 to 2006. She was also one of sixteen contestants of the fourth installment of The Celebrity Apprentice in 2011, coming in fifth place.
- Samantha Ryan is an American sportscaster who is a sports anchor for WABC-TV New York's Eyewitness News' weekend evening broadcasts.
- Pamela Donielle Oliver (born March 10, 1961) is an American sportscaster known for her work on the sidelines for various National Basketball Association (NBA) and National Football League (NFL) games.
- Tracy Wolfson (born March 17, 1975) is an American sportscaster for CBS Sports.
- Christine Chubbuck (August 24, 1944 – July 15, 1974) was an American television news reporter who worked for WTOG and WXLT-TV in Florida. She is known for being the first person to commit suicide on a live television broadcast.
- Marv Albert, born Marvin Philip Aufrichtig on June 12, 1941, in Brooklyn, New York, grew into one of the most recognizable voices in sports broadcasting. His career was studded with significant moments that defined him as an unparalleled describer of sports action across various platforms, including television and radio. Albert's love for sports was apparent early in his life, with his first broadcasting gig at a local radio station while still attending Syracuse University. This marked the beginning of his illustrious six-decade-long career. Albert made a name for himself as a highly versatile commentator covering a variety of sports, but he became synonymous with basketball. His signature "Yes!" call during NBA games became a staple of American sports culture, establishing him as a legendary figure in the world of sportscasting. He served as the voice of the New York Knicks from 1967 to 2004, his dynamic style and energy adding an unforgettable vibe to the games. His work wasn't confined to the NBA; he was also a prominent presence in NFL broadcasts, boxing matches, and even the Olympics, demonstrating his vast range and adaptability. Despite a controversial personal life and temporary fallout from the broadcasting world in the late 1990s, Albert demonstrated resilience by bouncing back stronger. He returned to the broadcasting scene in 1999, resuming his role as a top-tier sports commentator and reaffirming his position in the industry. In 2015, he was rightfully inducted into the Sports Broadcasting Hall of Fame, a testament to his enduring influence and notable contributions to sports journalism. A true titan of his craft, Marv Albert's legacy is firmly etched in the annals of sports broadcasting history.
- Jacob Paul Tapper (born March 12, 1969) is an American journalist, author, and cartoonist. He is the Chief Washington Correspondent for CNN, weekday television news show The Lead with Jake Tapper, and Sunday morning affairs program State of the Union. Prior to joining CNN, Tapper worked for ABC News. The White House Correspondents' Association honored his work as Senior White House Correspondent with ABC News with three Merriman Smith Memorial Awards for broadcast journalism.Tapper contributed to the coverage of the inauguration of President Obama that earned an Emmy Award for Outstanding Live Coverage of a Current News Story. Tapper was part of a team that was awarded an Edward R. Murrow award for Video: Breaking News for "Target bin Laden: The Death of Public Enemy #1." His book The Outpost: An Untold Story of American Valor debuted at number 10 in November 2012 on The New York Times Bestseller list for hardback non-fiction. Tapper's book and his reporting on the veterans and troops were cited when the Congressional Medal of Honor Society awarded him the "Tex" McCrary Award for Excellence in Journalism.The Republican primary debate Tapper moderated in September 2015 drew more than 23 million viewers, making it the most-watched program in the history of CNN and the second-most watched primary debate ever. He also moderated the Republican presidential debate in Miami on March 10, 2016, which drew almost 12 million viewers and, according to Variety, "garnered acclaim for its substance".
- A multi-talented blonde TV personality, Joan Lunden is best known for her hosting duties on ABC's "Good Morning America." She started her broadcasting career in 1973 as a weathergirl and consumer reporter at KCRA-TV in her hometown of Sacramento. Within six months, Lunden was promoted to co-anchor of the noon news broadcast. In 1975, she moved to WABC-TV in NYC and the following year she co-anchored the weekend newscasts. Lunden began her association with ABC's "Good Morning America" in 1976 as a consumer reporter. She began to act as substitute host from 1978 to 1980, when she became a permanent host. Her contract at the time caused some controversy for its child care clause that allowed her to bring her children to work and required the network to provide a nursery.
- The son of an Austrian immigrant whose family was lost to the Nazi purges, Canadian-born journalist Morley Safer grew up in the shadow of the Second World War, reading several newspapers a day and listening to radio dispatches from Europe. As a cub reporter for the Canadian Broadcasting System during the Fifties, Safer served his apprenticeship in London, where he would later be posted as a bureau chief for the American network, CBS. Initially uncomfortable with the transition from writing the news to appearing on-camera, Safer distinguished himself during two tours of duty in Vietnam, where his reporting on atrocities committed by U.S. troops changed the national perception of the war in Southeast Asia and drew the ire of then-President Lyndon B. Johnson, who branded Safer anti-American. In 1970, Safer accepted a correspondent's position on the groundbreaking news magazine program "60 Minutes" (CBS, 1968- ). Safer's probing but anti-sensational approach to news-gathering made him an audience favorite, a trusted voice, and an avuncular tonic to the show's muckraking star, Mike Wallace, with whom Safer frequently found himself in contretemps. A multiple Emmy Award winner and recipient of a host of awards for journalistic excellence, Morley Safer's more than 50-year career stamped him as an international icon of old school journalism, a television news pioneer and one of the last links to the golden age of news reporting, staying on staff at "60 Minutes" until the week before his death from pneumonia at the age of 84 on May 19, 2016.
- John Stossel worked on a variety of projects during his entertainment career. Stossel worked on a variety of projects during his early entertainment career, including "20/20" (ABC, 1977-), "20/20 15th Anniversary Special" (ABC, 1992-93) and "Are We Scaring Ourselves to Death?" (ABC, 1993-94). He also contributed to "Good Morning America" (ABC, 1975-2014), "Primetime Live" (ABC, 1989-2015) and "The Blame Game: Are We a Country of Victims?" (ABC, 1994-95). In the nineties, Stossel devoted his time to various credits, such as "The Mystery of Happiness: Who Has It & How to Get It -- With John Stossel" (ABC, 1995-96), "The Trouble With Lawyers With John Stossel" (ABC, 1995-96) and "Freeloaders" (ABC, 1996-97). He also worked on "Junk Science: What You Know That May Not Be So" (ABC, 1996-97). Stossel had a number of different projects under his belt in the nineties and the early 2000s, including "The Power of Belief With John Stossel" (ABC, 1998-99), "Is America Number One? With John Stossel" (ABC, 1999-2000) and "Why Don't The Kids Have a Voice? With John Stossel" (ABC, 1999-2000). His credits also expanded to "You Can't Say That! -- What's Happening to Free Speech With John Stossel" (ABC, 1999-2000) and "Hype With John Stossel" (ABC, 2000-01). Most recently, Stossel appeared on "Michael Moore Hates America" (2004).
- Liz Cho is a news anchor at WABC-TV in New York City. She has co-anchored the weekday 4 and 6 p.m. editions of Eyewitness News.
- Adam Joseph Hodges is an American singer-songwriter, and music producer. Joseph has released two albums and sixteen singles during his career. He is also the president of his own recording label, Jah Records. Joseph has also composed and written songs for many singers including Jonny McGovern, Ari Gold, Lea Lorien, Alex Kassel, and many other recording artists and musicians. Following the establishment of his record label, he released his debut studio album How I Seem to Be, which spawned two singles: "Flow With My Soul" and "You're Mine". He released a single, Faggoty Attention, in 2007 which generated international attention. The song was also featured in the film A Four Letter Word. Joseph later went on to record with several other singers and make album appearances. In 2012, he signed with Gomination Records and released a single "Turn Me Out". Joseph released "What's A Lover to Do" in 2013 from his second album, Love Philosophy, which was released in February 2014.
- Known to millions as one of the hosts of the "Today" (NBC, 1952-) show, Savannah Guthrie was born in Melbourne, Australia to an American family in 1971. By the time she was two, her family relocated back to the United States, making a home in Tucson, Arizona. Guthrie would graduate magna Cum laude from the University of Arizona with a BA in journalism in 1993, and began working as a broadcast journalist. She would take her talents to a number of network affiliate stations in Arizona, Missouri, and Washington D.C., before deciding on a career change and enrolling in law school at Georgetown University, graduating magna Cum laude again in 2002. After scoring first place on the Arizona Bar Exam, Guthrie worked mainly in litigation for a short time before she began melding the two halves of her professional expertise, becoming a trial correspondent for CourtTV in 2004. Three years later, she became a national correspondent for NBC News, where she was made the station's official White House correspondent. Then in 2011, Guthrie became a co-host on "Today," exposing her to a new audience and a new style of presenting news and interviews. She took to it extremely well, and was made the show's co-anchor when Ann Curry left the program the following year.
- Lara Worthington (née Bingle) is an Australian advertising model and media personality. She is known for appearing in the 2006 Tourism Australia advertising campaign So where the bloody hell are you? Her own reality television series, Being Lara Bingle, premiered on Network Ten in June 2012, ending after one season.
- Margaret Jane Pauley (born October 31, 1950), known as Jane Pauley, is an American television journalist and author, active in news reporting since 1972. She is the anchor of CBS Sunday Morning. Pauley previously held a 13-year position on NBC's Today program, followed by 12 years as co-host of Dateline NBC. She has publicly acknowledged her struggle with bipolar disorder.
- Satcha Pretto (born April 5, 1980) is a Honduran Emmy Award-winning journalist and news co-anchor of the Univision Network's popular morning show Despierta America.
- Don Lemon (born March 1, 1966) is an American journalist and author. He is an award winning news anchor for CNN based in New York City, and hosts CNN Tonight.
- Disarmingly intelligent talk show host Charlie Rose became one of broadcasting's most respected interviewers as the creator of his long-running eponymous television program, only to see that respect fall apart in 2017 when he was accused of sexual harassment by multiple women. After leaving a job in the financial industry in the mid-1970s, he received invaluable mentoring from esteemed journalist-commentator Bill Moyers as a producer on "Bill Moyers Journal" (PBS, 1971-1981). A move to Texas near the end of the decade provided him with the opportunity to host his own program "The Charlie Rose Show" (KXAS, 1979-1981), prior to his receiving national exposure and an Emmy for his work on the ground-breaking "CBS News Nightwatch" (CBS, 1982-1992). It was, however, as the host of "Charlie Rose" (PBS, 1991-2017) where he found his format and his calling, as host, producer and de facto booking agent. Inquisitive yet gracious, his interview style was far less aggressive than that of a "hard news" reporter, yet more nuanced than any question posed in the average "puff piece." Rose conducted his discussions in direct conversational style, allowing no one other than himself and his guest in the studio during the interview - a feat accomplished through the employment of robotic cameras. Rose's reputation as a fair but thoughtful host enabled him to secure in-depth interviews with such diverse personalities as poet-author Maya Angelou, Microsoft founder Bill Gates and actor-director George Clooney; and led to a second gig with CBS, where he served as a co-anchor for "CBS This Morning" from 2012 to 2017. However, Rose's reputation suffered when, in November 2017, eight women accused him of sexual harassment. Following the allegations, Rose was fired by CBS News, and PBS cancelled his long-running talk show.
- Jessica Beth Savitch (February 1, 1947 – October 23, 1983) was an American television news presenter and correspondent, best known for being the weekend anchor of NBC Nightly News and daily presenter of NBC News updates during the late 1970s and early 1980s. Savitch was one of the first women to anchor an evening network news broadcast alone, following in the footsteps of Marlene Sanders of ABC News and Catherine Mackin of NBC News. She also hosted PBS's public affairs documentary program Frontline from its January 1983 debut until her death in an automobile accident later that year.Shortly before her death in October 1983, Savitch also became known for her live broadcast of a short NBC News update in which her delivery was erratic and she appeared to be under the influence of drugs or alcohol. The incident caused widespread speculation that she was abusing drugs. She died three weeks later by drowning when a car in which she was a passenger accidentally drove into a canal during a heavy rainstorm. No drugs and very little alcohol were present in her system at the time of her death. Savitch was renowned for her audience appeal and her skills as an on-camera news reader, although she drew criticism for her relative lack of news reporting experience. Prior to joining NBC News, she was a popular local anchorwoman in Philadelphia, and before that, while working at a Houston television station, she was the first female news anchor in the South. Posthumously she became the subject of two biographies and a television film, Almost Golden: The Jessica Savitch Story, as well as television documentaries. The 1996 feature film Up Close and Personal starring Michelle Pfeiffer and Robert Redford was very loosely based on her life, with many details changed in order to produce a film more upbeat than Savitch's troubled personal life. Her experiences as a pioneer female news anchor also helped inspire Will Ferrell to make the 2004 film Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy.
- Elizabeth Anne Vargas (born September 6, 1962) is an American television journalist who is the lead investigative reporter/documentary anchor for A&E Networks. She began her new position on May 28, 2018, after being an anchor of ABC's television newsmagazine 20/20 and ABC News specials for the past 14 years. She was previously an anchor of World News Tonight.
- Linda Ellerbee (born August 15, 1944) is an American journalist who is most known for several jobs at NBC News, including Washington, D.C., correspondent, and also as host of Nickelodeon's Nick News with Linda Ellerbee. Her work on NBC News Overnight was recognized by the jurors of the duPont Columbia Awards as "possibly the best written and most intelligent news program ever."
- Charles Perez (born March 2, 1963) is an American writer and a former television news reporter, anchor and talk show host.
- Jerry Dunphy (June 9, 1921 – May 20, 2002) was an American television news anchor in the Los Angeles/Southern California media market. He was best known for his intro "From the desert to the sea, to all of Southern California, a good evening."
- Jenna Wolfe (born Jennifer Wolfeld; February 26, 1974) is an American journalist and personal trainer. From 2007–2014 she was a correspondent for NBC's Today, and Sunday co-anchor from (2007–2012) and news anchor for Weekend Today from 2012–2014. On September 12, 2014, Wolfe left the weekend Today show for a new role as lifestyle and fitness correspondent on the weekday Today show and NBC News.In September 2017, Wolfe began working for Fox Sports on FS1 as a host of the new show First Things First with former NFL wide receiver Cris Carter and radio host Nick Wright. She was also a field correspondent for Yellowstone Live on National Geographic.
- Ross Mathews has worked on a variety of projects during his entertainment career, including "1 vs. 100" (NBC, 2006-08), "America's Next Top Model" and "Battle of the Network Stars" (NBC, 2003). He also contributed to "Celebrity Fit Club" (VH1, 2004-2010) and "Miss Teen USA 2004" (NBC, 2004). In the early 2000s and the 2010s, he shifted his entertainment career towards more comedic roles, appearing on "After Lately" (E! Networks, 2010-13). He also appeared in the TV special "Larry the Cable Guy's Star Studded Christmas Extravaganza" (CMT, 2008). His work around this time also included a part on the TV movie "Christmas Cupid" (ABC Family, 2010). He also appeared in the Quentin Tarantino film "Not Quite Hollywood: The Wild, Untold Story of Ozploitation" (2008). He also played parts in television during these years, including a role in "Phenomenon" (NBC, 2007-08). Mathews continued to exercise his talent in the 2010s, taking on a mix of projects like "Beverly Hills Nannies" (ABC Family, 2012), "Interior Therapy With Jeff Lewis" (Bravo, 2011-13) and "Deal With It" (TBS, 2013-14). His credits also expanded to "Countdown to the Oscars: An Insider's Guide" (ABC, 2015) and "Knock Knock Live" (Fox, 2015). More recently he has been a producer and judge on "RuPaul's Drag Race" (Logo, 2009-16; VH1, 2017-2022; MTV, 2023-) and "RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars" (Logo, 2012 and 2016; VH1, 2018-2020; Paramount+, 2021-).
- Jeffrey Kofman (born May 20, 1959) is a former reporter and current university lecturer.
- Stone Stockton Phillips (born December 2, 1954) is an American television reporter and correspondent. He is best known as the former co-anchor of Dateline NBC, a news magazine TV series. He also has worked as a substitute anchor for NBC Nightly News and Today and as a substitute moderator on Meet the Press. Prior to his tenure at NBC, he was an ABC News correspondent for 20/20 and World News Tonight. He is known for his clear delivery and gravitas which was satirized by Phillips himself in appearances on The Colbert Report. Phillips was among Stephen Colbert's many guests for the sing-along at the end of the series' finale episode.
- News reporter and anchor Deborah Norville overcame the negative press that swirled around her tenure as host of "The Today Show" (NBC, 1952- ) in the late 1980s to become one of the most popular and prolific news personalities on television with her hosting duties on the long-running "Inside Edition" (syndicated, 1989- ). Born Deborah Ann Norville in Dalton, Georgia on August 8, 1958, she was a beauty pageant winner while attending Dalton High School, and went on to represent her home state in the 1976 America's Junior Miss Pageant. While she did not capture the title, her position allowed her a glimpse of television news operations from a behind-the-scenes perspective, and journalism soon became her career goal. Norville received her bachelor's degree in journalism from the University of Georgia, where she graduated summa cum laude in just three years' time; while attending the university, she interned at Georgia Public Television, which led to a summer internship at WAGA-TV in Atlanta. On her third day at the new job, she was given the opportunity to cover a news story due to a shortage of reporters, and was soon a weekend reporter for the station. Norville moved up to weekend anchor after graduation in 1979, which was followed in 1982 by reporter and later anchor duties for WMAQ, the NBC affiliate station in Chicago. Five years later, Norville became the first solo female anchor of a network newscast when NBC tapped her to oversee "NBC News at Sunrise" (1983-1999). The show's spike in ratings after her arrival led the network to place her as substitute anchor for its venerable "Today Show" in 1987; within two years' time, she had replaced John Palmer as its lead correspondent. When Jane Pauley announced that she was leaving "Today" in 1989, NBC gave her seat to Norville. But Pauley's departure, and Norville's rapid ascent from guest contributor to co-lead anchor drew negative criticism from the press, which accused NBC of elevating her position on the merits of physical appeal and youth; though Norville won an Emmy during her tenure as co-anchor, a precipitous decline in ratings led most viewers and observers to determine that she was the cause of the program's plunge. After the birth of her first child in 1991, Norville declined to return to "Today," and moved briefly into radio as the host of her own nationally syndicated program for ABC TalkRadio Networks. The following year, she returned to television as a correspondent for CBS News. Assignments for "48 Hours" (CBS, 1988- ) earned her a second Emmy in 1994 and the anchor's chair for "The CBS Sunday Evening News." In 1995, Norville replaced Bill O'Reilly as anchor of the syndicated news magazine "Inside Edition," and remained there for the next two decades, save for a brief stint in which she also anchored "Deborah Norville Tonight" (MSNBC, 2003-05). Norville also proved to be a popular contributor to numerous publications, as well as a prolific author. Her first book, Back on Track: How to Straighten Out Your Life When It Throws You a Curve (1997), which drew on the "Today" show scandal, was followed by two children's books and the best-selling Thank You Power: Making the Science of Gratitude Work For You in 2007. She also drew on her lifetime affection for sewing - which had been her talent during her Junior Miss pageant days - and penned several knitting and crocheting books. She launched her own yarn collection in 2009, and joined the public television series, "Knit and Crochet Now!" as host in 2015.
- Kenneth Wheelock Mayne (born September 1, 1959) is an American sports journalist for ESPN. He currently appears as host of Kenny Mayne's Wider World of Sports on ESPN.com, and he appeared as a weekly contributor to "Sunday NFL Countdown" with his weekly "Mayne Event" segment.
- Charles Bishop Scarborough III (born November 4, 1943) is an American television journalist and author. Since 1974, he has been the lead news anchor at WNBC, the New York City flagship station of the NBC Television Network, and has also appeared on NBC News. He currently anchors the daily 6:00 pm WNBC news.
- Jodi Sue Huisentruit (born June 5, 1968 – declared legally dead May 2001) was a television news anchor for KIMT, based in Mason City, Iowa, in the United States. She went missing in the early morning hours of June 27, 1995, soon after telling a colleague that she was on her way to work. As there were signs of a struggle outside her apartment, she is believed to have been abducted. However, extensive investigations have failed to uncover any clues to her disappearance.
- Sandra Sully (born 18 February 1961) is an Australian news presenter and journalist and editor for Sydney's 10 News First since 2011, previously being the presenter of the news bulletin on Network Ten's Ten Late News with Sports Tonight until she presented the (then) final edition of the program.
- Erin F. Moriarty (born April 6, 1952) is an American television news reporter and correspondent. She works as a correspondent for 48 Hours Mystery. She has won national Emmy Awards several times.
- Edwin Maher is a New Zealand-born TV journalist who worked for CCTV International in Beijing before retiring in 2017.Maher established his broadcast career in Australia, working many minor roles, particularly as a weatherman, in many cities before beginning a 25-year stint with Australian Broadcasting Corporation in 1979. He is mostly remembered in Melbourne for his use of a varied and creative number of viewer submitted pointers to highlight items when delivering the ABC's Victorian state weather forecast. In 2003, China Central Television sought to expand its CCTV International to be more professional and accessible to Western audiences. CCTV senior executive Jiang Heping approached Maher, already working in China with CCTV as a voice coach, to become one of the first western anchors for the revamped network. Maher was offered the position because of his clear diction speaking English and his experience in voice coaching. Maher taught speaking in private lessons through his company Maher Media Services, lectured at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, and even released audio lessons on voice. He accepted the job with CCTV and started in March 2004. Besides anchoring a news broadcast a few afternoons a week, his duties include voice coaching to the Chinese staff.Maher answers criticism that he has become a paid mouthpiece for the Communist propaganda by saying he only reads the news and is, "not trying to read into the news, not thinking about what is behind the content. Politically sensitive news, like any other news, has to be read clearly. That is my bottom line. Because I'm in China, some news may be regarded as politically sensitive or whatever, but that doesn't affect my interpretation of it to the audience." Maher also wrote articles for the English language China Daily newspaper about his experiences learning Mandarin Chinese.He appeared in the 2003 Australian movie Bad Eggs as a news presenter reporting on the events at the end of the film.In January 2010, it was announced that Maher's life story would be adapted into a feature film.
- Melissa Ann Francis (born December 12, 1972) is an American actress and commentator for the Fox Business Network (FBN) and Fox News (FNC). Prior to FBN, she worked at CNBC. She is currently the co-host of After The Bell weekday afternoons with Connell MacShane. She is also an anchor of FNC's Happening Now newscast. She is a regular panelist on FNC's afternoon talk show Outnumbered.
- Born in The Bronx, reporter Bob Simon was an American news correspondent for 46 years. Among the many events he reported on, often for CBS News, were The Troubles in Ireland in the late '60s and early '70s, the 1989 protests in Tiananmen Square and the Yom Kippur War. Perhaps most notably, Simon covered the Persian Gulf War of 1991, during which he and four members of his television crew were captured and held as prisoners in Iraq for 40 days. This happened in the early days of the war, and Simon was forced to spend the majority of his time as a captive in solitary confinement. Later in his book Forty Days, he attributed the capture to carelessness on the part of himself and his crew, who had chosen to cross the border. In 1996 Simon was made a correspondent for venerable television newsmagazine "60 Minutes" (CBS 1968- ). His primary contribution to the show was the coverage of foreign events, for which he often traveled into dangerous territories around the world. Simon was killed on February 11, 2015 when his limousine driver lost control of his vehicle on Manhattan's West Side Highway. CBS News President David Rhodes praised Simon as "a lion of the medium," and after his death CBS anchor Dan Rather called him one of the few remaining "scholar correspondents" in the business.
- William Charles Beutel1 (December 12, 1930 – March 18, 2006) was an American television reporter, journalist and anchor. He was best known for working over four decades with the American Broadcasting Company, spending much of that time anchoring newscasts for WABC-TV in New York City. He also was an ABC radio network newscaster before ABC Radio's split into 4 networks on January 1, 1968. After the split he reported on the American Contemporary Network as did his Eyewitness partner Roger Grimsby.
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- Lisa Colagrossi (May 9, 1965 – March 20, 2015) was an American journalist and television news anchor and reporter. She was a reporter for WABC-TV In New York City from September 2001 until her death on March 20, 2015.
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Perri Peltz is an actress and producer who appeared in "20/20," "Showtime," and "Ushuaia: The Ultimate Adventure."- Richard Austin Quest (born 9 March 1962) is an English journalist and a CNN International Anchor. He is also CNN Business Editor at Large, based in New York City. He anchors "Quest Means Business", the five-times-weekly business programme and fronts the CNN shows "Business Traveller", "The Express" and "Quest's World of Wonder".
- Natarsha Belling (born 29 May 1975) is an Australian national news presenter on Studio 10.
- Dana Tyler (born November 24, 1958) is a news anchor and reporter at WCBS-TV in New York City, where she anchors the station's 6 PM newscast. In addition, Tyler hosts Eye on New York, a half-hour weekly community affairs program for WCBS, as well as several annual local specials: CBS 2 at Tonys, CBS 2 at the Met and Tunnel to Towers Run. Tyler first joined WCBS as a weekend anchor and a reporter on July 16, 1990.
- Tamron Hall was an American television news journalist who co-hosted the third hour of NBC's long-running "Today" (NBC, 1952- ) from 2014 to February of 2017. Born and raised in Texas, Hall always wanted to become a journalist. When it came time to enter college she enrolled in the journalism program at Temple University in Philadelphia. Hall would eventually graduate from the school with her B.A. in Broadcast Journalism. After graduation she moved back to Texas to take a job as a TV reporter for a CBS affiliate in Bryan, Texas. Hall stayed at the job for two years, before moving to KTVT in Forth Worth. Then in 1997 Hall got her first big break when she joined the reporting at the Fox affiliate, WFLD, in Chicago. During her decade long tenure at WFLD Hall reported on everything from local and national politics to entertainment, thus becoming a familiar face to numerous Chicagoans. It was also during her period at WFLD that Hall hosted a daily morning news program called "Fox News in the Morning." After 10 years Hall left WFLD to report on national news for MSNBC. Hall quickly made a name for herself at MSNBC as a trusted reporter and in 2010 she was given her own program "NewsNation with Tamron Hall" (MSNBC, 2010-17). As the host of the series, Hall honed her journalism skills by reporting on global issues and national politics. Her top notch reporting eventually caught the attention of the Investigation Discovery channel, who hired Hall to host its new crime series "Deadline: Crime with Tamron Hall" (Investigation Discovery, 2013- ). Then in 2014 Hall nabbed her biggest break to date when she began co-hosting the third hour of NBC's long-running "Today" show called "Today's Take." Hall hosted the program, alongside Willie Geist, Natalie Morales and Al Roker, from February of 2014 to February of 2017. In early February of 2017 Hall announced that she would be leaving both NBC and MSNBC, ending her three-years co-hosting gig on "Today's Take."
- Jeffrey Pegues is a CBS News correspondent and author based in Washington, D.C., where he reports for all CBS News platforms. Pegues was named a Correspondent for CBS News on May 29, 2013. Four months into his tenure, he became CBS News' Transportation Correspondent. In late 2014, he was promoted to CBS News Justice and Homeland Security Correspondent, one of the most challenging and high-profile beats in network news. In May 2019, Pegues was the commencement speaker at his alma mater, Miami_University of Ohio. Prior to joining CBS News, Pegues was a reporter for WABC-TV in New York City. He received numerous Emmy Awards during his nearly ten-year run (2003-2013) at WABC-TV. Pegues is credited with bringing the story of David Goldman and his international fight for his son into the headlines. Jeff has also been recognized for his outstanding reporting at the height of Superstorm Sandy. As the storm crashed into New York City he reported on the rising flood water and spreading fires in Queens. In 2005, he reported on Hurricane Rita from Texas. Prior to WABC-TV, Pegues was a reporter for WBAL-TV in Baltimore, Maryland, where he earned Emmy Award nominations. At WSVN-TV, the Fox Affiliate in Miami, Florida, he worked as an evening anchor. At the time, it was the top-rated evening newscast in that market. In 2004, Jeff covered both the Democratic National Convention and Republican National Convention.
- Judy Carline Woodruff (born November 20, 1946) is an American broadcast journalist, who has worked in network, cable, and public television news since 1976. She is currently anchor and managing editor of the PBS NewsHour. Woodruff has covered every presidential election and convention since the race that culminated in the win of 39th U.S. president Jimmy Carter. She has interviewed several heads of state and moderated U.S. presidential debates.After graduating from Duke University in 1968, Woodruff entered local television news in Atlanta. Thereafter, she was named White House correspondent for NBC News in 1976, a position she held for six years. She joined PBS in 1982, where she continued White House reports for the nightly news program the PBS NewsHour, formerly The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour, in addition to presenting another program. She moved to CNN in 1993 to host Inside Politics and CNN WorldView together with Bernard Shaw, until he left CNN. Woodruff left CNN in 2005, and returned to PBS and the NewsHour in 2006. In 2013, she and Gwen Ifill were named official anchors of the PBS NewsHour, succeeding founding presenter Jim Lehrer. Woodruff and Ifill shared managing newsgathering duties until Ifill's death from cancer in 2016. Woodruff succeeded Ifill as the program's sole main presenter.
- James Alan Bouton (; March 8, 1939 – July 10, 2019) was an American professional baseball player. Bouton played in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a pitcher for the New York Yankees, Seattle Pilots, Houston Astros, and Atlanta Braves between 1962 and 1978. He was also a best-selling author, actor, activist, sportscaster and one of the creators of Big League Chew. Bouton played college baseball at Western Michigan University, before signing his first professional contract with the Yankees. He was a member of the 1962 World Series champions, appeared in the 1963 MLB All-Star Game, and won both of his starts in the 1964 World Series. Later in his career, he developed and threw a knuckleball. Bouton authored the baseball book Ball Four, which was a combination diary of his 1969 season and memoir of his years with the Yankees, Pilots, and Astros.
- Guto Harri (Welsh pronunciation: [ˈɡɪtɔ.hariː]; born 8 July 1966) is a writer, broadcaster and strategic communications consultant. A former BBC chief political correspondent, in May 2008 he was appointed as communications director for Mayor of London Boris Johnson's administration at London City Hall. He quit Johnson's team when Johnson was re-elected mayor in May 2012 and was confirmed in his role as head of PR at newspaper publisher News International shortly afterwards. He left News UK to become the managing director of external communications at Liberty Global until January 2018.
- Allison Langdon (born 20 May 1979) is an Australian reporter, news presenter and author. Langdon is currently host of Weekend Today and reporter on 60 Minutes.
- John Charles Patrick Croghan Daly (February 20, 1914 – February 24, 1991), generally known as John Charles Daly or simply John Daly, was an American radio and television personality, CBS News broadcast journalist, ABC News executive and TV anchor and a game show host, best known as the host and moderator of the CBS television panel show What's My Line? In World War II, he was the first national correspondent to report the attack on Pearl Harbor, and the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt, as well as covering much of the front-line news from Europe and North Africa.
- Elizabeth Kate Claman (born December 12, 1963) is the anchor of the Fox Business Network show Countdown to the Closing Bell. Claman was previously the co-anchor of the CNBC morning television program Morning Call. Before that, Claman was the co-host of the programs Wake Up Call as well as briefly co-anchored Market Watch and was the anchor of the CNBC newsmagazine program Cover to Cover. Claman also temporarily served on a rotation basis along with other anchors as a substitute for The News with Brian Williams before Williams left MSNBC for NBC News in 2004. She is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley.
- Jinah Kim is a Korean American reporter for NBC News and KNBC in Los Angeles, California. She is also President of the Los Angeles chapter of the Asian American Journalists Association. She is the Co-Founder of WorldWiseProductions.com.
- Myron Jess Marlow (November 29, 1929 – August 3, 2014) was an American journalist. He was best known for his work on television in Los Angeles, California, where he spent the bulk of his career.
- David Murphy is an actor and TV anchor.
- Douglas Harriman Kennedy (born March 24, 1967) is an American journalist. He is the tenth child of Robert F. Kennedy and Ethel Kennedy, named in honor of W. Averell Harriman, a family friend and former governor of New York.
- Born August 09, 1970, Chris Cuomo was raised within a family of politicians. He earned a juris doctor degree in 1995 and soon started to participate as a political and social commentator on CNBC, MSNBC and CNN. From 2006 to 2009 he was the news anchor for Good Morning America, at ABC. In 2007, he was awarded with his first Emmy for Excellence in Morning Programming; since 2005, he has been nominated to various awards for his journalistic work . Then, in 2013, he moved to CNN and participated in programs like Piers Morgan Tonight, Cuomo Prime Time, documentaries like Inside with Chris Cuomo. In 2018, he began hosting the "Let's Get After It" radio program. In 2021, he was fired from CNN because of corruption, conflict of interest and violating journalism ethics, related to his brother, previous Governor of New York, Andrew Cuomo. In 2022, he started The Chris Cuomo Podcast.
- Zachariah Daniel Miller III (September 30, 1941 – April 8, 2009), commonly known as Dan Miller, was an American television personality who grew up in Augusta, Georgia. Miller was a longtime news anchorman for WSMV (formerly WSM-TV) in Nashville, Tennessee. Beginning his tenure there as a weathercaster in 1969, he moved to the news anchor desk in 1970. In 1986, Miller left Nashville to serve as principal anchor at KCBS-TV in Los Angeles, a position he held for one year. Miller then gained fame in the United States nationally as the announcer and sidekick for his friend and one-time WSM-TV colleague, Pat Sajak, during Sajak's short-lived CBS late-night talk show, The Pat Sajak Show. Upon returning to Nashville in 1992, Dan resurrected his own interview show, Miller & Company, which originally aired Sunday nights on WSMV from 1980 to 1986. The Miller & Company revival aired weekday afternoons to a national cable audience on The Nashville Network. When it was discontinued by TNN, it was picked up locally by WSMV. In 1995, WSMV replaced Miller & Company with a 5pm newscast. A few months later, Miller returned to the WSMV anchor desk and continued his work there until his death in 2009.Miller appeared in the CBS movie, Big Dreams and Broken Hearts: The Dottie West Story, which featured Michele Lee as Dottie West. He appeared as a guest on Hollywood Squares in 1989. In 1999, he was granted an exclusive interview with the parents of murdered six-year-old JonBenét Ramsey, which led to many appearances on nationally televised news programs. Miller was also a prolific writer of essays about life on and off the television screen, at "Dan Miller's Notebook".
- Carol Lin is an American journalist, best known as the first television news anchor to break the news to a worldwide audience of the terrorist attacks on the United States on September 11, 2001, reporting for CNN. Lin previously worked for ABC News, contributes reports to NPR,, is the founder of CarolLinReporting.com, and currently does strategic communication for the Los Angeles County Chief Executive Office.
- George Michael, born Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou in London on June 25, 1963, was a British singer, songwriter, and record producer who rose to fame as a member of the music duo Wham! His distinctively soulful voice and flair for pop melody made him one of the world's best-selling music artists. Michael's musical journey began in the early 1980s with Wham!, alongside his school friend Andrew Ridgeley. Their breakthrough came with their debut album Fantastic, which topped the UK charts. The duo's pop-dance sound became a defining emblem of the 80s, with hits like "Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go" and "Last Christmas". Michael's solo career took flight in 1987 with his debut album Faith. The album, which blended elements of pop, soul, and rock, sold over 25 million copies worldwide and won a Grammy for Album of the Year. It produced several hit singles, including I Want Your Sex, Father Figure, and the title track Faith. Throughout his career, Michael was known for his versatility, seamlessly transitioning from teen pop to mature soul and tackling social issues in his lyrics. His honesty about his personal life made him a prominent voice in the LGBTQ+ community. George Michael passed away on December 25, 2016, but his legacy continues to live on through his music. His contribution to pop music and his advocacy for LGBTQ+ rights have cemented his place in the annals of music history.
- Gordon Elliott (born 30 September 1956) is a British Australian journalist and producer, radio and television personality, based now in the US He is the executive producer of ABC's daytime cooking related talk show The Chew, and had his own eponymous TV talk show program, between 1994 and 1997 The Gordon Elliott Show and Door Knock Dinners.
- Gary Papa (September 2, 1954 – June 19, 2009) was a sportscaster with WPVI-TV in Philadelphia from April 1981 to June 2009 and was the 5:30 p.m., 6 p.m., and 11:00 p.m. sportcaster. He joined the station as a weekend sportscaster and was promoted to the 6:00 p.m. and 11:00 p.m. newscasts in 1991, and was named sports director one year prior. In June 2003, he added the 5:30 p.m. newscast to his duties on an interim basis. Prior to working at WPVI, Papa worked at WGR-TV in his hometown of Buffalo, New York and WSTV-TV in Steubenville, Ohio. Papa's brother, Greg, was the longtime radio voice of the Oakland Raiders. Papa co-hosted the Saturday evening public affairs show Primetime Weekend with Cecily Tynan. He had hosted the program since December 3, 1983, when he took over after the death of Jim O'Brien. On April 20, 2004, he revealed to viewers that he had been receiving treatment for prostate cancer and lost his hair as a result. He continued to work while receiving chemotherapy. Three years later in July 2007, during the 6:00PM Action News broadcast, Papa along with Jim Gardner announced that he once again was going through chemotherapy.Papa died on June 19, 2009 at 2:57 p.m. at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, at the age of 54; his final WPVI-TV Action Sportscast was on May 13 of that year. He was survived by his father, insurance adjuster Frank Papa (1926–2019); his wife, Kathleen; and his two sons, Nathaniel and Tucker. Gary Papa was inducted into the Broadcast Pioneers of Philadelphia Hall of Fame on November 14, 2001.
- James Howard "Jim" Vance III (January 10, 1942 – July 22, 2017) was an American television news presenter in Washington, D.C.
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Otto Lennart Hyland (24 September 1919 – 15 March 1993), was a Swedish TV-show host and journalist and one of the most popular and renowned TV personalities in the history of Swedish television. His biggest success as an entertainer was unquestionably the show Hylands hörna ("Hyland's corner"), that aired from 1962 on Sveriges Television. Initially, it was a radio show at Sveriges Radio, but due to its success and popularity, the production was moved to Sveriges Television in 1962 where it aired until 1983. During its 21-year run, it became a veritable institution of Swedish popular entertainment.- Lisa Sylvester is an American Peabody and Emmy award-winning journalist and television correspondent. She previously reported on CNN's The Situation Room. She joined WPXI, Channel 11 in Pittsburgh in October 2016, anchoring the 6 and 11 p.m. and on WPGH's 10 p.m. newscast, which is produced by WPXI.
- Charmaine Margaret Dragun (; 21 March 1978 – 2 November 2007) was an Australian broadcast journalist and presenter. She was a co-anchor on Ten Eyewitness News. Dragun, who had been diagnosed with depression and had a history of anorexia, committed suicide on 2 November 2007.
- Cynthia McFadden (born May 27, 1956) is an American television journalist who is currently the senior legal and investigative correspondent for NBC News. She was an anchor and correspondent for ABC News who co-anchored Nightline, and occasionally appeared on ABC News special Primetime. She was with ABC News from 1994 to 2014 and joined NBC News in March 2014.
- Silvia Milena Corzo Pinto (born October 30, 1973 in Bucaramanga, Santander) is a Colombian lawyer and presenter.
- Janice Huff (born September 1, 1960) is chief meteorologist for WNBC in New York City.
- Dawna Friesen is a Canadian television journalist, currently the chief anchor and executive editor of Global National. She was previously a foreign correspondent for NBC News.
- Andrew Kirtzman is a journalist and author who served as political reporter and anchor for six years at WCBS-TV in New York City until April 2008. He is the author of Betrayal: The Life and Lies of Bernie Madoff about Bernard Madoff's $65 billion Ponzi scheme and "Rudy Giuliani: Emperor of the City," a book about the former mayor's tumultuous reign at City Hall. Kirtzman was with Giuliani on the morning of September 11, 2001 and chronicled his experience with the mayor in the paperback version of his book. Kirtzman was born and raised in Manhattan's Lower East Side. He graduated from Saint Ann's School in 1978. He attended the University of Pennsylvania, where he was the Executive Editor of The Daily Pennsylvanian, the student newspaper, and the Sphinx Senior Society and received his B.A. in journalism from New York University. He frequently appears on network and cable television news programs to discuss politics and business. At WCBS-TV he hosted the Sunday morning political program Kirtzman & Co., which featured interviews with politicians and reporters. His weekly on-air column, "Kirtzman's Column," won him an Emmy award for best political programming in 2003.
- Phyllis George was an actress and producer who appeared in "Meet the Parents," "Candid Camera," and "I've Got a Secret."
- Richard Jay Schaap (September 27, 1934 – December 21, 2001) was an American sportswriter, broadcaster, and author.
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Kevin Connors is a sports television journalist for ESPN. He is a host of ESPN SportsCenter, and is seen frequently on the program's 6pm and 11pm EDT broadcasts. Connors also provides play-by-play for college basketball broadcasts on the ESPN family of networks, as well as for international basketball broadcasts on ESPN and ESPN2. He was previously a sports reporter and sports anchor for WCBS-TV (CBS 2) in New York City, the flagship station of CBS Television Network.- Marc Lamont Hill (born December 17, 1978) is an American academic, author, activist, and television personality. He is a Professor of Media Studies and Urban Education at Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.He was the host of the syndicated television show Our World with Black Enterprise and hosts the online Internet-based HuffPost Live. He is also a BET News correspondent, and a former political commentator for CNN and Fox News. Hill also hosts VH1 Live! and reunion shows for Basketball Wives. Hill was fired from his position as a commentator for CNN after remarks before the U.N. on the Arab–Israeli conflict that were perceived as antisemitic.
- Rafael Suarez, Jr. (born March 5, 1957), known as Ray Suarez, is an American broadcast journalist and the current John J. McCloy Visiting Professor of American Studies at Amherst College. Most recently, Suarez was the host of Inside Story on Al Jazeera America Story, a daily news program on Al Jazeera America, until that network ceased operation in 2016. Suarez joined the PBS NewsHour in 1999 and was a senior correspondent for the evening news program on the PBS television network until 2013. He is also host of the international news and analysis public radio program America Abroad from Public Radio International. He was the host of the National Public Radio program Talk of the Nation from 1993-1999. In his more than 30-year career in the news business, he has also worked as a radio reporter in London and Rome, as a Los Angeles correspondent for CNN, and as a reporter for the NBC-owned station WMAQ-TV in Chicago. He is currently co-host of the radio program WorldAffairs on KQED.
- Seamus Thomas Harris O'Regan (born January 18, 1971) is a Canadian politician and former television personality from Newfoundland and Labrador. He currently serves as Minister of Indigenous Services, and formerly served as Minister of Veterans Affairs. He was a correspondent with CTV National News, and a former host of Canada AM, which he co-hosted from 2003-2011 with Beverly Thomson.
- William Cameron may refer to: William Cameron (Australian politician) (1877–1931), New South Wales politician William Cameron, British surveyor who discovered the Cameron Highlands William Cameron (Canadian politician) (1847–1920), Nova Scotian politician William Bleasdell Cameron (1862–1951), survivor of the Frog Lake Massacre, journalist and author William E. Cameron (1842–1927), U.S. politician William Gordon Cameron (1827–1913), British soldier and colonial administrator William Cameron (priest) (1688–1765), Irish Anglican priest William George Cameron (1853–1930), Canadian politician in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia Bill Cameron (footballer) (born 1928), Australian rules footballer for St Kilda Bill Cameron (journalist) (1943–2005), Canadian journalist Bill Cameron (mystery author) (born 1963), American author Bill Cameron (philanthropist) (1924–1993), Canadian inventor, engineer and founder of the Neil Squire Society Billy Cameron (1896–1972), Canadian ice hockey player
- Carolyn Gusoff (born February 15, 1963) is an American television news reporter and author. Gusoff is working as a Long Island reporter at WCBS-TV in New York City. Prior to that, she spent three years as a reporter at Fox 5 in New York City, and before that she worked for 15 years at WNBC in New York City as the Long Island Bureau Chief/Reporter and anchor of Weekend Today in New York. Her book, Buried Memories: Katie Beers' Story, which she wrote in collaboration with kidnapping victim Katie Beers, is a New York Times bestseller.
- Robert "Bob" McKeown (born October 10, 1950) is an investigative reporter with CBC News and former football player. He has also worked with NBC and CBS. McKeown returned to the CBC in November 2002 to host its investigative program, The Fifth Estate, a show which he had hosted from 1981 to 1990. Prior to his current position, McKeown spent eight years working for Dateline NBC as a correspondent and five years with CBS News.
- Ann Sanders (15 March, 1960), is an Australian television journalist and news presenter. Sanders is currently the presenter of Seven Morning News and Seven Afternoon News Sydney.
- Michelle Charlesworth (born June 7, 1970) is an American television news reporter and anchor. Since 1998 she has been a reporter for both ABC News and WABC-TV, as well as a weekend morning anchor for WABC-TV's Eyewitness News and is probably best known for an award-winning series of reports about her battle with skin cancer, which aired on both WABC-TV and ABC's Good Morning America. An alumna of Princeton High School in Princeton, New Jersey, she graduated from Duke University with a Bachelor of Arts in public policy and studied economics in a graduate program on a full scholarship from the German government at the University of Freiburg. She was an anchor and reporter at WNCN-TV in North Carolina from 1996 to 1998. On October 16, 2006, Charlesworth gave birth to her first child, a girl. Her daughter is named Isabelle Marlene, after the hurricane that hit Charlesworth's wedding on the Jersey Shore. On September 29, 2009, Charlesworth gave birth to her second child, Jack James. She was recently on a long list of WABC-TV reporters in line to replace fired Eyewitness News This Morning co-anchor Steve Bartelstein. Another candidate for the anchor seat was reporter Lisa Colagrossi. Ken Rosato became the co-anchor with Lori Stokes on July 6, 2007. Charlesworth continues to substitute regularly for Ken Rosato or Lori Stokes, thus prompting others, including Toni Yates, and, prior to her death, Lisa Colagrossi to fill in for her on the Weekend Morning broadcasts with Rob Nelson.
- Walter David Jacobson (born July 28, 1937) is a former Chicago television news personality and a current Chicago radio news personality. He currently provides opinion segments for WGN Radio AM 720. From 2010 until 2013, he was an anchor of the 6 p.m. news on WBBM-TV in Chicago, where he also had worked from 1973 until 1993. From 1993 until 2006, he was principal anchor on WFLD-TV's FOX News at 9 and the host of FOX Chicago Perspective, a one-hour news and political show that aired Sunday mornings on WFLD.
- David Marash, known as Dave Marash (born May 3, 1942), is an American television journalist known for his work at ABC News and Al Jazeera English.
- Cecily Joan Tynan (born March 19, 1969) is an American television reporter who has been with WPVI-TV since 1995. As of 2013, she is the 5, 6, and 11 pm weathercaster. She also hosts the Saturday evening public affairs program Primetime Weekend; the show was co-hosted by Gary Papa until his death on June 19, 2009.
- John William Muller (born July 7, 1966) is an American television journalist. Since 2011, he has been with ABC News, where his anchor duties include World News Now and ABC News Now. He is the weeknight anchor of NYC's Emmy Award-winning PIX 11 News. He worked as a reporter and anchor in Georgia and Florida before returning to New York City.
- Amy Elizabeth Freeze (born June 19, 1974), is an American television meteorologist. Since 2011, she has been the weekend meteorologist at WABC-TV in New York City, New York. She has filled in on ABC's Good Morning America. Freeze was the first female Chief Meteorologist in Chicago, Illinois, for Fox owned-and-operated station WFLD in Chicago, serving from 2007 to 2011.
- With his immaculate gray locks, stentorian jaw and preference for dark tailored suits, Scott Pelley could have been mistaken for a political dynamo but the Texas native and long-time CBS correspondent was a professional journalist before he graduated from high school. Utilizing a winning combination of nerve, determination and quality reporting, Pelley jumped from a reporter's job at the Dallas affiliate of ABC News to a coveted correspondent's position with CBS in 1989. The following year, Pelley flew to the Middle East to cover the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait and a decade later was broadcasting live from the rubble-strewn site of the World Trade Center's collapsing Twin Towers on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001. A multiple Emmy Award winner for his coverage of the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing and the 1996 crash of TWA Flight 800, as well as for his controversial 2009 interview with Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, Pelley also served for three years as the CBS White House correspondent, where the impeachment proceedings for then-President Bill Clinton were initiated on his watch. A correspondent for "60 Minutes" (CBS, 1968- ) since 2003, Pelley's confrontational questioning style marked him as an heir to the retired Mike Wallace. A field-tested newsman in the tradition of Walter Cronkite and his CBS mentor Dan Rather, Pelley was chosen to assume the "CBS Evening News" anchor chair vacated by Katie Couric in April 2011, a post he held until May 2017, when he was replaced by Anthony Mason.
- Maurice DuBois (born August 20, 1965) is an American television anchorman for WCBS-TV in New York City and the CBS network.
- Antonio Mora (born December 14, 1957, Havana, Cuba) is a multiple Emmy Award winning journalist and television news anchor. He is best known for his years at ABC News, including his four years as the news anchor and chief correspondent for Good Morning America. He was an anchor on Al Jazeera America and its 9pm news broadcast. For the first year and a half of the network's existence, he acted as the host of a show called Consider This. He was the first Hispanic American male to anchor a primetime newscast in Chicago and one of the only Hispanic American males to anchor a national broadcast news show.He is currently Editor in Chief of NewsandNews.com, a news aggregator website and app. He also teaches Journalism at the University of Miami School of Communication (January 2018 to present).
- Vince DeMentri (born 1964) is an American broadcast journalist. DeMentri is an alumnus of Pennsylvania's "Big 33" High School Football All-Star Game. DeMentri graduated from Temple University with a B.A. in broadcast journalism. He played the position of linebacker for the Temple Owls football team from 1983 through 1986. He began his broadcast journalism career as a sports producer for WPVI-TV in Philadelphia and worked for WOI-TV as a weekend anchor in 1989. He was later an investigative reporter and anchor for WDIV-TV in Detroit, Michigan, WPRI-TV in Providence, Rhode Island and WICS-TV in Springfield, Illinois. In 1993 DeMentri joined CBS's flagship WCBS-TV in New York as a reporter, and became anchor of the station's weekend evening newscasts. He stayed there until 2003, when he moved to NBC's Philadelphia affiliate, WCAU-TV. DeMentri won several awards for his reporting for WCBS and WCAU, including seven Emmys for investigative reporting and a national Edward R. Murrow Award for his reporting on the September 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center. While at WCAU DeMentri served as anchor for the early evening newscasts as well as ones produced for WPHL-TV by the station. He is divorced from Pat James DeMentri, a morning show hostess for QVC, and has one daughter. DeMentri appeared in the 1998 film U.S. Marshals as a reporter.In September 2012 DeMentri was hired by Sinclair Broadcasting to anchor the evening newscast at WICS-TV in Springfield, Illinois, even though questions arose through local newsprint media regarding his past history.DeMentri was responsible for an investigative story that ultimately shed light on shredding practices occurring at the Springfield Police Department in an attempt to possibly obscure possible command personnel misdeeds regarding an off-duty incident in Missouri. The story was entitled "Ready, Set, Shred", or colloquially and locally known as "Shredgate", and may have ultimately been responsible for the resignation or early retirement of several members of the command staff of the Springfield Police Department. Dementri continued his "hardball" type of investigative journalism and eventually engaged in surprise interviews of then Springfield Mayor J. Micheal Houston regarding the "Shredgate" scandal. Dementri continued to highlight the scandal and was later blamed by Houston for his ultimate loss in the election.However, Mayor Houston was not the only casualty on election night. DeMentri himself allegedly engaged in a reported physical altercation with another station personality while at a local restaurant, causing law enforcement to be called, and within days both TV personalities were terminated.
- Reuven Frank (7 December 1920 – 5 February 2006) was an American broadcast news executive.
- Abbi Tatton was an Internet reporter for CNN. She was born in 1975 and attended the Cherwell School in Oxford, England. She graduated from the University of Leeds in History in 1998. Based in Washington, D.C., Tatton utilized innovative technologies to present the latest political, national and international news for CNN's afternoon program, The Situation Room, hosting the segment "The Situation Online". Along with fellow CNN reporter Jacki Schechner, Tatton was one of the first "Internet reporters" in mainstream television news. Tatton left CNN in January 2010 to join Google/YouTube as a Manager of Global Communications and Public Affairs.
- Benjamin Joseph Wattenberg (born Joseph Ben Zion Wattenberg; August 26, 1933 – June 28, 2015) was an American author, commentator and demographer. Associated with leading Democratic politicians in the 1960s and 1970s, he leaned increasingly conservative in his latter years.
- Lawrence David Mendte (born January 16, 1957) is an American news anchor, commentator and radio talk show host. Mendte is currently hosting three TV shows, Jersey Matters, The Delaware Way, and Another Thing with Larry Mendte. Mendte also hosts The Larry Mendte Show on WABC (AM) in New York. Until a few years ago, Mendte wrote and delivered nightly commentaries at WPIX in New York City that were aired at TV stations across the country. He continued writing and delivering the commentaries on "Another Thing with Larry Mendte," which airs in the New York and Philadelphia TV markets. Mendte was the first male host of the American syndicated television show Access Hollywood. From 2003 to mid-2008, he was the lead anchor of the 6pm and 11pm newscasts for KYW-TV (Channel 3), the CBS O&O in Philadelphia. After nearly two decades in last place, Mendte led the station to compete with first place WPVI-TV (Channel 6). KYW lured Mendte away from WCAU-TV (Channel 10), where he had anchored the 4, 6 and 11 pm newscasts and led the station to win news ratings in some time slots for the first time in 30 years.
- Lyse Marie Doucet , (; born 24 December 1958) is a Canadian journalist who is the BBC’s chief international correspondent and an occasional contributing editor. She presents on BBC World Service radio and BBC World News television, also reports for BBC Radio 4 and BBC News in the United Kingdom, including reporting and occasionally presenting for Newsnight and World News Today. She also makes and presents documentaries.
- Chris Cimino was the meteorologist on WNBC television's early-morning news program, Today in New York in New York City, New York, and was a substitute meteorologist for the NBC network's Today program. He joined WNBC in December 1995 from WTXF-TV in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he was the weekend meteorologist since January 1995. Before that, Cimino worked as a meteorologist in the Cincinnati, Ohio, television market and on the radio with Compu-Weather and Metro Weather Service. and WROC-TV in Rochester, New York. On September 20, 2004, Cimino was part of an incident in which he had to give a weather report dressed in a New York Yankees baseball costume (he is a lifelong New York Mets baseball fan). The idea came after Cimino lost a bet to his eleven-year-old neighbor in which the Mets would have to win at least seventy-five games; the Mets were unsuccessful. The report ended with Cimino's colleague, sportscaster Otis Livingston, interrupting while dressed as the Mr. Met mascot, "beating up" Cimino. During his time at WNBC he filled in for Al Roker on the Today Show, His quote to go to the local weather update was, "That was the look of the National Weather, Now here is your Local Forecast." Cimino is a resident of East Brunswick Township, New Jersey.His final day at WNBC was July 2, 2019. His replacement, Maria LaRosa started on July 29, 2019.
- Lauren Glassberg (born June 2, 1970) is an American journalist. Currently, Glassberg is a features reporter and substitute co-anchor for WABC-TV's editions of Eyewitness News in New York City. Lauren joined the ABC Affiliate in March 2000. In addition to Lauren's features, she seldom extends to report the mainstream news during her fill-in anchorages, often alongside anchors Joe Torres and Bill Ritter, respectively.
- Chris Gailus (; born 29 October 1967) is a Canadian television news anchor who works for Global BC. Gailus graduated from the Broadcast Journalism Program at Mount Royal University in Calgary in 1989, where he made the Dean's List and played basketball. He began his career in Lethbridge, Alberta, and stayed there for three years. He joined Calgary's CFCN-TV in 1992, then moved on to CICT-TV in 1997. After marrying fellow anchor Jane Carrigan, Gailus took a post anchoring the morning news on WFAA-TV in Dallas in 2000. He joined New York City's WNYW in April 2003, and began serving as anchor on the station's morning program Good Day New York. Gailus returned to Canada and joined CHAN-TV (Global BC) in Vancouver on May 1, 2006 as weekend anchor. As of September 2010, he currently anchors the Monday to Friday editions of the News Hour when longtime anchor Tony Parsons left Global TV for broadcasting in Victoria, BC. Gailus appeared in the motion picture Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer, as a news anchor. Gailus became a father in August 2011, when he and Carrigan adopted their son William Alexander Gailus.
- Kate Silverton is an English journalist, currently employed by the BBC. Generally a relief presenter for the BBC, Silverton can be seen regularly presenting the BBC News at One, BBC News at Six, BBC News at Ten, and BBC Weekend News, as well as making occasional appearances on the BBC News Channel and BBC World News. In 2018 she participated in the sixteenth series of BBC's Strictly Come Dancing, paired with professional dancer Aljaz Skorjanec.
- Sandra Bookman (born October 8, 1959 in Beaumont, Texas) is an American television news reporter and weekend anchor. She is currently a reporter and anchor at WABC-TV in New York City. She co-anchors the 5 p.m., 6 p.m. and 11 p.m. weekend editions of Eyewitness News. She joined the station in 1998 from WSB-TV in Atlanta, Georgia where she worked as weekend anchor and reporter from 1989 to 1998. She was previously weekend anchor at both Raleigh, North Carolina's WRAL-TV and in Beaumont, Texas' KFDM. She has won three Emmy Awards for her reporting including Olympic Coverage and the aftermath of Valuejet Airlines Crash in the Everglades. Bookman was an Olympic Reporter for ABC News for seven years and was the only Atlanta based reporter to cover the games from Atlanta before the bid and until the Olympic bombing in 1996. She also covered the 1992 Olympic games in Barcelona, Spain. She graduated from University of Texas with a B.A. in journalism and currently lives in Manhattan.
- Warner William Wolf (born November 11, 1937) is an American television and radio sports broadcaster, perhaps best known as a local news sports anchor in Washington, D.C. and New York City, and for his catchphrase "Let's go to the videotape!"
- Leonard Berman (born June 14, 1947) is an American television sportscaster and journalist who is based in New York City. He is currently hosting the morning show on WOR-AM along with Michael Riedel.Berman is widely known for his television career with NBC, specifically his work for the network's flagship station WNBC-TV. Berman spent 27 years as the lead sports anchor for WNBC and also worked for NBC Sports covering Major League Baseball and the National Football League. He was employed by WNBC until 2009, and prior to that he worked for WCBS-TV in New York City from April 1979 through August 1982 and WBZ-TV in Boston.
- Rosanna Scotto, born April 29, 1958, is a prominent American news anchor and journalist known for her long-standing role as the co-host of "Good Day New York" (WNYW-FOX 5, 1988-). Hailing from Brooklyn, New York, Scotto earned her degree in fine arts from Catholic University of America. She began her career in television at WTBS, Ted Turner's UHF station in Atlanta, before returning to New York to work at WABC-TV's Eyewitness News. In addition to her journalism career, Rosanna has also made appearances in films and television shows, including "Ghostbusters" (2016), "A Simple Favor" (2018), and episodes of "Impractical Jokers" (TruTV, 2011-). Outside of her broadcasting work, Scotto is a co-owner of an Italian restaurant in Manhattan, which she runs with her family. Known for her charm, professionalism, and connection to her community, Rosanna continues to be a defining figure in New York journalism and entertainment.
- Avram David "Avi" Lewis (born 1968) is a Canadian documentary filmmaker, former host of the Al Jazeera English show Fault Lines and former host of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) current-affairs programs CounterSpin and On the Map.
Marla Shapiro
Marla Shapiro is a Canadian medical doctor, best known as a health journalist for CTV News Channel and The Globe and Mail. Her reports on health and medical issues have also aired on Canada AM and on CTV's daytime talk show Balance: Television for Living Well.Born in Montreal, Quebec, she is a graduate of McGill University and an associate professor in the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of Toronto. Shapiro is also the founding editor of ParentsCanada magazine. She was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2004 and was featured in a television special about her experience. She is the author of Life in the Balance: My Journey with Breast Cancer (HarperCollins Publishers, 2006).She was named a Member of the Order of Canada in 2015.- Christian P. "Chris" Wragge ( RAG-ee; born June 19, 1970) is an American news anchor. He is the co-anchor for New York's CBS2's "News This Morning" and CBS2's "News at Noon", alongside Mary Calvi. He was previously on WCBS's 5 p.m. and 11 p.m. broadcasts, until he moved to CBS's The Early Show (nationwide), where he served as morning co-anchor from January 2011 until January 6, 2012, when the broadcast was replaced.
- Zain Verjee (born February 11, 1974) is journalist who was born and raised in Kenya. Zain is one of the world’s most respected and recognized journalists, with an action-packed background and experience as a storyteller, entrepreneur, communicator, and interviewer. She is well known as a former CNN anchor and correspondent, and has made a successful transition into the world of communications and creative entrepreneurship. Her communications firm, Zain Verjee Group, has worked with a deep lineup of organizations and entities such as Bloomberg Media, Bloomberg Philanthropies, Equity Group Foundation of Kenya, World Health Organization, The MiSK Foundation, and the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa on their communications and public relations delivery and strategies via advisory, consulting, and content production. She is a highly sought after facilitator and interviewer, and has spoken on platforms such as TED and Africa House. She is also a startup founder and content creator, co-founding aKoma Media, a continental network of workspaces for Africa’s creative and cultural economy, in 2015. Her other ventures in the creative space include Amplify, a content creator fellowship with participants from East/West Africa and the US, in partnership with MasterCard Foundation. In addition, with her former colleague and CNN anchor Isha Sesay, Zain will be launching Rouse, an immersive three day gathering event for an elite community of women in Africa and the diaspora in 2019. Zain resides in the Los Angeles area and Nairobi, Kenya, and her versatility and charisma have been a great asset for her in her post anchor life and entrepreneurial ventures. She spent 14 years at CNN as an anchor and correspondent, living in Atlanta, Washington DC and London. Prior to leaving CNN in April 2014, Verjee was the anchor of CNN International's European daytime program "World One". She worked as a newsreader for The Situation Room, as a State Department correspondent, and as a co-anchor of CNN International's Your World Today with Jim Clancy.
- Jerry Penacoli (born July 9, 1956) is an American actor and entertainment reporter, currently with the US syndicated magazine show Extra.
