Anchor / Reporters
Ann Notarangelo
Ann Notarangelo is an award-winning journalist and is CBS 5's Eyewitness News Weekend Edition anchor. A native of Contra Costa County, Ann joined CBS 5 in February 2001. She covers Contra Costa County and the Tri-Valley.
Ann has served as anchor for all of CBS 5's newscasts and was at the anchor desk the morning of September 11th, bringing viewers the first reports of the terrorist attacks in New York, Washington, and Pennsylvania. She followed this with field reports about the tragedy's impact on the Bay Area.
Since her arrival, Ann has covered the disappearance and death of Chandra Levy and the series of vicious dog maulings. She has investigated Meth labs and the growing abuse of prescription drugs in Contra Costa County.
Ann joined CBS 5 from KFSN in Fresno, where she was Weekend Anchor/Political Reporter. She also worked for ABC News covering stories for a national audience: the El Nino and Yosemite Floods, Southern California wildfires, John Denver's fatal plane crash and the Yosemite Tourist Murders. As a political beat reporter, Ann uncovered fraud in Fresno's Parks Department and also investigated the City Council's use of a questionable slush fund. Both stories led to changes in the way the city operates.
Prior to that, Ann worked as a Reporter and Anchor for WJRT-TV, Flint, Michigan, covering the automotive beat - the region's most vital industry. While there, she created a popular weekly series, featuring positive children's stories.
She began her career at CNN, Washington, D.C. as a Producer. During this time, she covered the inaugurations and administrations of Presidents George Bush and Bill Clinton, Washington politics, the Gulf War and the fall of the Soviet Union, East Germany and Czechoslovakia. Ann was soon promoted to be Producer of "Inside Politics" with Bernard Shaw and "PrimeNews", a national nightly newscast.
Ann has received numerous awards for her work including, an Emmy, several Emmy nominations, two Northern California RTNDA Awards and the Michigan Association of Broadcasters Merit Award.
Ann graduated with a Bachelor's degree in Political Science from UCLA. She and her husband live in Contra Costa County with their daughter. They try to spend as much time as they can enjoying the great outdoors in the Bay Area, Lake Tahoe, and Yosemite.
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