Anchors
Dana King
Emmy Award-winning news anchor Dana King has traveled extensively covering news throughout the world.
In October 2006 she covered northern Iraq, at that time an amazingly safe and economically sound region, vastly different than the war-torn southern Iraq. In August of 2004 she traveled to Afghanistan reporting on post war/pre-presidential election stories. In April of 2004 she went to Rwanda, reporting on the 10 year commemoration of the genocide. The multiple part series on Rwanda received two RTNDA Awards. Most recently the prestigious Edward R. Murrow Award in March of 2005. King filed a series of seven reports documenting the impact on survivors.
In November 2002, King spent two days aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln in the Persian Gulf and filed live reports from Amman Jordan. She was the first bay area broadcast journalist at ground zero on September 13, 2001. In January 2000, King traveled back to Honduras, two years after her initial trip covering the destruction caused by the flooding after hurricane "Mitch" in November 1998. Her five-part series "Healing a Nation" provided Bay Area viewers a look at the courageous personal survival of the Honduran people. She revisited people she interviewed from her first trip providing an update on their progress.
During 1999, King traveled to Turkey and to Taiwan to report on the devastation left from the two earthquakes. She reported the similarities of the geographic fault lines of Turkey to that of the Bay Area fault lines. King reported on the poor construction in the hardest hit areas of Turkey.
From Turkey, King traveled to Albania and Kosovo to document the situation for refugees. King met up with two Bay Area doctors who were there to provide medical relief to Kosovo refugees. She filed several reports on the doctors' humanitarian efforts. King said, "I told my children I can't help like a doctor can, but I can tell someone's story to make things better."
November of 1998, King traveled to Honduras following the destruction left by Hurricane Mitch, where she reported for more than a week, calling it one of the most touching stories that she had ever covered. Her efforts immediately led CBS and the Bay Area Chapter of the American Red Cross to open a phone bank that raised close to a million dollars.
King received a local Emmy Award for her reporting in Honduras. As well as four Emmy Awards for local news in Los Angeles, St. Louis, and San Francisco. In 2006 she received the Kudo award for best anchor by the American Women in Radio and Television (AWRT).
King began her broadcasting career in Los Angeles as a general assignment reporter at KABC-TV. From general assignment reporter, she moved to early morning news anchor. In 1989 the Los Angeles Sentinel named her "Woman of the Year." In 1990 she moved to St. Louis to become the evening news anchor at KTVI-TV.
After King left St. Louis, she worked as anchor on "Good Morning America Sunday," and as a substitute co-anchor and reporter for "Good Morning America." She joined CBS News in December 1993 as co-anchor and reporter for the prime time news magazine "America Tonight." She was co-anchor of the "CBS Morning News," and a frequent contributor to "CBS This Morning," as well as other CBS News programs. In 1995 King anchored a syndicated news and information program called "Day and Date." Her most recent network assignment was that of general assignment reporter for the CBS Evening News with Dan Rather.
Born in Cleveland, King graduated with a bachelor's degree in marketing from Ferris State University in Big Rapids, Michigan. She is a competitive rower and has competed and medaled in regional, national and international sculling events. She has two children.
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