Jericka Duncan and Adriana Diaz are both national correspondents who have just been announced as CBS News anchors. The two of them are both from Chicago, Illinois.
What We Know:
- According to an official announcement via CBS president Susan Zirinsky, “Jericka Duncan and Adriana Diaz are outstanding journalists with extensive reporting experience,” said Zirinsky. “Adriana’s reporting has spanned China, North Korea, and Latin America to today’s coverage of COVID-19’s devastating impact on the nation. Jericka has distinguished herself in reporting the toughest, highest-profile stories that have hit the courts and gripped the country, including the trials of Harvey Weinstein, Bill Cosby, and Breonna Taylor.”
- Due to the pandemic, CBS has been forced to rearrange their correspondents in efforts to continue safe broadcasting across the country, also due to constraints in the New York Broadcast Center. The two national anchors will now be added to the weekend lineup. Jericka Duncan will now air as an anchor on Saturdays in Chicago and Sundays in New York. Her first broadcast aired on December 6. Adriana Diaz will take control starting December 12 in Chicago, and both women will remain in these positions permanently starting in January.
- Ducan has been Emmy-nominated and previously aired an exclusive interview with the mother of Breonna Taylor. Diaz, also a part of an Emmy award-winning team, has previously worked on multiple stories such as the Flint water crisis and the Parkland school shooting.
- Weekend evening-news duties had been handled by anchors who worked primarily for CBSN, the company’s streaming-video news outlet, and some of the story packages used had also appeared for broadband users earlier in the day. According to the Chicago Tribune, Duncan joined CBS News in 2013, and before joining CBS, she spent three years at KYW, the CBS-owned TV station in Philadelphia. Before that, she was a reporter for WIVB (CBS) in Buffalo, New York.
- She started off as a reporter in Elmira, New York, shortly after graduating from Ohio University in 2005 with a degree in communications. She recently received a Juris Master in American Legal Studies from Liberty University.
- Diaz joined CBS News in 2012 and reported for Channel One News, and hosted Yahoo’s “Trending Now” web show before CBS. She has also worked as a financial analyst at Goldman Sachs. She attended Princeton University, majoring in public and international affairs, and earned a master’s degree in public affairs and public administration at Columbia University and France’s Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris.
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