Famous Correspondents

Vanessa Minnillo was born November 9, 1980, in Angeles City, Pampanga, the Philippines. She is a multitalented personality known for television hosting, acting, and beauty pageantry. Minnillo began her career winning Miss Teen USA in 1998, becoming the first Filipino descent person to win that title. Hosting MTV's Total Request Live video countdown show helped solidify her presence in the spotlight. Her early years involved frequent moves, mostly because her father worked in the military.

Lisa Ling appeared as co-host of "The View" (ABC, 1997- 2002). She began her career as an investigative reporter at age 15. Ling hosted "National Geographic Explorer" (National Geographic Television, 1985- ) and served as a special correspondent for "The Oprah Winfrey Show" (syndicated, 1986-2011). She traveled the world and faced dangers to cover issues such as child trafficking in Ghana and the impact of Hurricane Katrina on New Orleans residents. Her early work included...

Rick Sanchez usually means Rick Sanchez (journalist), a Cuban-American journalist, radio host, and author. It also refers to Rick Sanchez (Rick and Morty), a character in the animated series Rick and Morty. Ricky Sánchez is a Puerto Rican professional basketball player.

Gail O'Neill (c. 1963) was a fashion model. She was considered one of the world's elite African American models. O'Neill appeared on covers for major fashion magazines and the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue. As a journalist, she reported for several US networks. She was an original correspondent for The Early Show on CBS. She also worked for CNN and HGTV. As of 2009, O'Neill continues modeling. A native of Westchester County, New York, O'Neill worked for Xerox after...

John Oliver is a major television and comedy figure. He blends humor with deep analysis of current social problems. Oliver was born in Birmingham, UK, in 1977. He studied at Cambridge University, where he sharpened his comedy skills in the Cambridge Footlights drama club. After graduating, Oliver started a stand-up career in the UK. He then moved to America. Oliver began his American career on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart in 2006, where his sharp wit and style caught attention.

Layla Kayleigh, born January 26, 1986, is a British-American TV personality, actress, and philanthropist. She hosted The Feed segment of G4's Attack of the Show! and co-hosted MTV's America's Best Dance Crew as the backstage correspondent. She also hosted MTV reunion shows like Teen Mom and Teen Wolf. Maxim magazine featured her to promote her projects and shows. Askmen.com readers voted her one of the most beautiful women in the world.

Sanjay Gupta became a major television celebrity, best-selling author, and political advisor. Gupta is an accomplished neurosurgeon. He made People magazine's sexiest men alive list. Sanjay Gupta was born October 23, 1969, in India. His family moved to Michigan so his father could work as an engineer for Ford Motors. Gupta earned a Bachelor of Science from the University of Michigan. He obtained a Doctor of Medicine from the University of Michigan.

Charles Bishop Kuralt (September 10, 1934 – July 4, 1997) was an American journalist. He worked with CBS for a long time. He first did "On the Road" segments on The CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite. He became the first anchor of CBS News Sunday Morning, a role he held for fifteen years. Two Peabody Awards recognized Kuralt's "On the Road" segments. The 1968 award cited them as heartwarming and "nostalgic vignettes." The 1975 award recognized his work as a U.S. "bicentennial historian." His work captured the individual.

Roger Welsch served as a senior correspondent on CBS News Sunday Morning. He appeared in the segment "Postcards from Nebraska." Welsch is an author, humorist, and folklorist. He was born in Lincoln, Nebraska, and now lives outside Dannebrog, Nebraska. Welsch won the 2005 Henry Fonda Award from the State of Nebraska Travel and Tourism Division.

Richard Engel, born September 16, 1973, is an American journalist and author. He is NBC News' chief foreign correspondent. NBC News assigned him this role on April 18, 2008, after he covered the Middle East and was the Beirut Bureau chief. Engel received the Medill Medal for Courage in Journalism for his report "War Zone Diary." Before joining NBC News in May 2003, he covered the start of the 2003 Iraq war from Baghdad for ABC News as a freelance journalist. Engel speaks and reads Arabic fluently, plus Italian and Spanish.

Ana Marie Cox, born September 23, 1972, writes, blogs, columns, and criticizes politics. She founded the political blog Wonkette and served as Senior Political Correspondent for MTV News. Cox conducted "Talk" interviews in The New York Times Magazine from 2015 to 2017. In 2010, Cox held the Washington correspondent role for GQ. She has contributed to The Daily Beast since 2009. Cox previously worked at Air America Media. She led U.S. politics blogging for The Guardian until August 2014 and edited Mother Jones.

Lisa Sylvester, an American journalist, won Peabody and Emmy awards. She reported on CNN's The Situation Room. Sylvester joined WPXI, Channel 11 in Pittsburgh, in October 2016. She anchored the 6 and 11 p.m. newscasts on WPXI and the 10 p.m. newscast on WPGH, which WPXI produces.

Tricia Ann Regan, born December 13, 1972, hosts television and writes books. She hosts Trish Regan Primetime on the Fox Business Network. Regan also contributes to Fox News Channel. Regan hosted Bloomberg Television from 2012 to 2015 and hosted CNBC from 2007 to 2012.

Jenna Bush Hager, born November 25, 1981, is an American news personality, author, and journalist. She co-hosts Today with Hoda & Jenna, the fourth hour of NBC's morning news program Today. Hager and her twin sister, Barbara, are the daughters of the 43rd U.S. President George W. Bush and former First Lady Laura Bush. They are the first and only twin children of a U.S. president. After her father's presidency, Hager became an author, an editor-at-large for Southern Living magazine, and a television personality on NBC, appearing most prominently as a mother.

Carol Costello, born October 11, 1961, is an American television commentator and former CNN Newsroom host. In 2017, Costello left CNN to join sister network HLN, based in Los Angeles. In October 2018, HLN announced Costello (and hosts of two other news programs) would be let go; her final broadcast aired on October 26.

Heidi Collins, born Heidi Elmquist on June 1, 1967, was an American correspondent and news anchor for KMSP-TV Fox 9 News in Minneapolis – Saint Paul until her departure on July 29, 2013. Collins formerly worked for CNN.

Fred P. Graham, born October 6, 1931, served as chief anchor and managing editor of the former Court TV. Graham was born in Little Rock, Arkansas, and graduated from West End High School in Nashville, Tennessee. He earned a B.A. from Yale University in 1953, an LL.B. from Vanderbilt University Law School in 1959, and a Diploma of Law from Oxford University in 1960. Graham worked as a legal correspondent for The New York Times from 1965 to 1972, then as a legal correspondent for CBS News from 1972 to 1987.

Amy Harmon, born September 17, 1968, is an American journalist. She earned a Pulitzer Prize as a correspondent for The New York Times, covering science and technology's effect on daily life. Harmon uses story to show human problems caused by science advances. In 2013, a Guggenheim Fellow named her.

Courtney Brooke Hazlett supervises entertainment editing for NBC News' digital properties, NBCNews.com and TODAY.com. Before that, she wrote for todayshow.com, the official site for NBC's The Today Show, as a columnist and Celebrity Correspondent. Hazlett writes "The Scoop" blog and column, which appears on todayshow.com, msnbc.com, and Newsvine websites. Hazlett also provides on-air comments for The Today Show and MSNBC programs.

William Thomas "Tom" Pettit (April 23, 1931 – December 22, 1995) was an American journalist. He served as a television news correspondent for NBC from the 1960s to 1995. During most of that time, he filed reports for NBC Nightly News and the Huntley-Brinkley Report. Pettit served on the Meet the Press panel multiple times. He worked as one of NBC's floor reporters at political conventions in 1972, 1976, and 1980.

George Fteris, born George Tsimbidaros (Greek: Γιώργος Τσιμπιδάρος) (September 14, 1891 - September 14, 1967), was a Greek journalist, foreign correspondent, critic, author, and poet.

Rita Braver, born April 12, 1948, is an American television news correspondent. She currently works with CBS News.

Rebecca Jarvis is an American actress. She appeared in "CBS This Morning" and "Crazy About Tiffany's."

Dmitri Borisovich Kedrin (Russian: Дми́трий Бори́сович Ке́дрин; February 4 [O.S. December 22, 1906] 1907 – September 18, 1945) was a Russian Soviet poet. He died in a railway accident; he was struck by a commuter train. Some people claim this accident was murder.

Emma Alberici, born 1970, is an Australian journalist and television presenter. She is the Chief Economics Correspondent for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC). Until 2017, Alberici presented the ABC's main current affairs show, Lateline. She reported for the ABC's The 7.30 Report and Lateline, and also worked as a reporter and producer with A Current Affair on Australia's Nine Network.

Michael A. Hiltzik, born November 9, 1952, is an American columnist and reporter. He wrote widely for the Los Angeles Times. In 1999, he won a Pulitzer Prize beat reporting for co-writing articles about music industry corruption with Chuck Philips. He won two Gerald Loeb Awards for Distinguished Business and Financial Journalism.

Robert Bazell teaches Molecular Cellular and Developmental Biology at Yale University. He was the former chief science and health correspondent for NBC News.

Heidi M. Cullen directs Communications and Strategic Initiatives at MBARI. Heidi Cullen was the chief scientist for Climate Central, the non-profit environmental organization based in Princeton, New Jersey. She lectures at Princeton University and wrote The Weather of the Future. Heidi Cullen comments on climate change and the environment as an expert. She hosted The Weather Channel and is a senior research fellow at the University of Pennsylvania (Penn).

Brian Elliot Ross, born October 23, 1948, is an American investigative journalist. He served as the Chief Investigative Correspondent for ABC News until 2018. Ross reported for ABC World News Tonight with David Muir, Nightline, Good Morning America, 20/20, and ABC News Radio. Ross joined ABC News in July 1994 and left in 2018. His investigative reports often covered government corruption. From 1974 to 1994, Ross was a correspondent for NBC News.

Anil Ramdas (Paramaribo, 16 February 1958 – Loenen aan de Vecht, 16 February 2012) was a Dutch-Surinamese columnist, correspondent, essayist, journalist, and TV and radio host. In 1997, he won the E. du Perron prize for his work.

Bruce Alexander Morton (October 28, 1930 – September 5, 2014) was a television news correspondent for CBS News and CNN for over 40 years. Morton was born in Norwalk, Connecticut, but grew up in Chicago. Morton graduated from Harvard University in 1952 and spent three years in the U.S. Army. While at Harvard, he anchored a Boston radio station. After his military service, Morton worked behind the scenes at New York City's WRCA-TV, then on air for a local Pittsburgh station. He joined ABC News in 1962.

Sir Selwyn Charles Cornelius-Wheeler (15 March 1923 – 4 July 2008) was a British journalist and broadcaster. Wheeler joined the BBC in 1947 and became the corporation's longest-serving foreign correspondent, staying in that role until his death. Wheeler also presented BBC current affairs shows like Newsnight and Panorama.

Declan Gerald Curry, born September 5, 1971, is a Northern Irish freelance journalist, presenter, and businessman. He is best known as the former business correspondent for BBC Breakfast.

Jennifer Westhoven, born August 16, 1971, is an American reporter. She currently serves as a correspondent for HLN. Westhoven covers the economy, business, personal finance, and money topics. She joined the CNN network in 2000, beginning with CNNfn. Before that, she worked for Reuters from 1993 to 2000. Since 2006, she has been on the HLN morning show Morning Express with Robin Meade. Westhoven presents "Your Money," her regular segment on "Morning Express" and the HLN Mid-Morning Block. She also appears on the network's weekend Clark Howard show and fills in anchoring for HLN.

James Alan Miklaszewski, born July 8, 1949, is a retired journalist. He is better known as Jim or Mik Miklaszewski. He was the chief Pentagon correspondent for NBC News most recently. Miklaszewski directed news for KRXV (Radio 15) in Fort Worth, Texas. He used the air name "James Allen." In mid-1979, he worked as an account executive for the station after its all-news format ended for an easy listening music format, changing its call letters to KMZK-AM (K-Music). He started his radio career in Wisconsin, working in Madison and La Crosse, Wisconsin.

David C. Martin, born July 28, 1943, is an American television news correspondent, journalist, and author for CBS News. He currently serves as the network's National Security Correspondent reporting from The Pentagon, a role he has held since 1993. Martin has provided reports for the CBS Evening News, 60 Minutes, and 48 Hours.

Margaret Brennan, born March 26, 1980, is an American journalist based in Washington, D.C. She moderates Face the Nation on CBS News and serves as the network's senior foreign affairs correspondent. Brennan was a White House correspondent for CBS and covered Washington starting in 2012. Before CBS, Brennan anchored the weekday show InBusiness with Margaret Brennan on Bloomberg Television. She also worked as a CNBC correspondent for various NBC News programs. Brennan is a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a John C. Whitehead Fellow with the Foreign Policy Asso.

Budd Mishkin hosts and reports for New York's 24-hour news network, NY1. Mishkin hosts "One on 1 with Budd Mishkin," where he interviews and profiles New Yorkers with major city connections. Mishkin started at the station as a sports correspondent and still hosts "Sports on 1: The Last Word" every Thursday. He also contributes feature stories to the network.

Stephanie Elam, born January 23, 1974, is an American television journalist.

Odd Karsten Tveit, born December 17, 1945, is a Norwegian journalist, writer, and economist. He specialized in the Middle East, writing several books on the subject. Tveit served as a foreign correspondent for the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation (NRK) in the Middle East across three stints: 1979 to 1983, 1990 to 1994, and 2003 to 2007. Tveit also served as a major in the UNIFIL peacekeeping forces in Lebanon.

Simon Jack, born May 10, 1971, is an English business journalist and news correspondent. He now serves as the Business Editor for BBC News. Jack appeared on BBC Breakfast until September 2011 and on BBC Radio 4's Today until February 2016. He also presented business and financial podcasts for The Daily Telegraph.

Brooke Hart worked as a Washington, D.C.-based correspondent for NBC NewsChannel, NBC's affiliate news service, for 11 years. Her early morning live reports appeared on local newscasts for many NBC affiliates nationwide, sometimes on NBC's Early Today. Her reports covered news from the nation's capital. Brooke first gained journalism experience through internships at the MacNeil–Lehrer Newshour, CNN, and National Public Radio. She then anchored and reported, first for KAEF-TV in Eureka, California, and later for KTXS-12 in Abilene, Texas.

Rajesh Mirchandani is a global communications leader. He was a former British television journalist. He reported from around the world for over twenty years as a BBC correspondent and news anchor. He covered international events, from Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines to the Academy Awards in Hollywood, Calif. The BBC World Service and BBC World News broadcast his award-winning reporting. Since January 2018, he has served as the United Nations Foundation's Chief Communications Officer.