TV News Talent

TV News Talent

Drawing up an unassailable list of the next generation of television news stars is a near-impossible and inherently suspect task, if only because the prescribed length of the list forces difficult choices. TelevisionWeek talked to network talent executives, agents and savvy viewers who are, first and foremost, news junkies. No one was in contention for the list without having been mentioned, unbidden, more than once, or without having provoked easy assent from the news junkies when mentioned as a contender... More »

TV News Talent

Joel Brown

Joel Brown, CBS Newspath Correspondent

Mr. Brown got his professional start early. While a student at Howard University, he was an anchor-reporter at Howard’s WHUT-TV. In 2000, he received the Radio-Television News Directors Association’s Ed Bradley Award for Excellence in Student Journalism... More »


Seth Doane

Seth Doane, CBS News Correspondent

After a year as field producer for Fox flagship station WNYW-TV’s special projects unit, Mr. Doane was hired in 2001 as an anchor and correspondent for the student-targeted Channel One. For the next five years he was a working world traveler... More »


Jeff Glor

Jeff Glor, CBS News Correspondent

Mr. Glor double majored in journalism and economics and won a best-in-journalism award at Syracuse University in New York. Before graduating, he had become a news writer at Syracuse’s WSTM-TV in 1997. Over the next six years, he would report from New York on 9/11 and from Toronto on a papal visit in 2002... More »


Scott Goldberg

Scott Goldberg, KARE-TV Reporter

Mr. Goldberg worked at small-market stations in Illinois, Virginia and South Carolina before working as a freelance reporter for National Public Radio, for which he covered economic and political crises in Argentina. After returning to the United States, Mr. Goldberg became a reporter at KARE-TV in Minneapolis... More »


Bianna Golodryga

Bianna Golodryga, ABC News Correspondent

Ms. Golodryga was Wall Street-trained before she was CNBC-trained. She worked her way up from being Maria Bartiromo’s assistant in 2001 to New York Stock Exchange bureau producer on 9/11 to segment producer for “The Wall Street Journal Report With Maria Bartiromo” in 2004... More »


Savannah Guthrie

Savannah Guthrie, NBC News Correspondent

After an early stint as a reporter at NBC-owned WRC-TV in Washington, D.C., Ms. Guthrie went to law school. After practicing law for a while, she was hired in 2004 by Court TV to talk about the legal system. During two years as national trial correspondent, she covered the Michael Jackson child molestation case, the Boston clergy sex abuse scandal surrounding Father Paul Shanley... More »


Rebecca Jarvis

Rebecca Jarvis, CNBC Reporter

Ms. Jarvis applied her degree in economics from the University of Chicago and additional study in Paris to early roles in currency trading and investment banking. She gained national attention as the runner-up on the fourth installment of NBC’s “The Apprentice.” She also caught the eye of CNBC, which hired her in 2006 as an associate reporter... More »


Megyn Kelly

Megyn Kelly, Co-Anchor of Fox News Channel's "America's Newsroom"

Ms. Kelly was a corporate litigator before becoming a general-assignment reporter for ABC-affiliated WJLA-TV in Washington, D.C., where her assignments included the D.C. sniper case. She was hired in 2004 as a Washington-based general-assignment reporter for Fox News Channel... More »


Jenna Lee

Jenna Lee, Fox Business Network Anchor

Ms. Lee got a master’s degree in journalism from Columbia University. She worked at the hyper-local NY1 cable channel as an anchor, a writer for its morning newscast, an associate producer for its nightly political report “Inside City Hall” and a segment producer for its “Fortune Business Report”... More »


Betty Liu

Betty Liu, Host of Bloomberg TV's "Starting Bell"

Raised and educated in Pennsylvania, Ms. Liu signed on with the Dow Jones Newswire, for which she went on to serve as Hong Kong-based regional correspondent and the youngest bureau chief ever in Taiwan. She came back to this country as Atlanta bureau chief for the Financial Times before CNBC Asia made her anchor and correspondent covering the greater China region... More »


David Muir

David Muir, "World News Saturday" Anchor and "Primetime" Co-Anchor

Mr. Muir’s career started with five years at CBS affiliate WTVH-TV in his hometown of Syracuse, N.Y., where he was a reporter and anchor showing versatility and high standards that would become his hallmark... More »


Carl Quintanilla

Carl Quintanilla, Co-Anchor of "Squawk Box" on CNBC

Mr. Quintanilla’s big TV break came during his six-year stint as a reporter with the Wall Street Journal, which had struck a deal to share content and talent with CNBC. His appearances from 1999 through 2002 showed such natural promise that CNBC made him co-anchor of “Wake Up Call.” NBC News heeded the call... More »


Mara Schiavocampo

Mara Schiavocampo, "NBC Nightly News" Digital Journalist

After getting her start at CBS Newspath, Ms. Schiavocampo developed muscle spending a year as part of the startup team at the digital ABC News Now. She moved to WRNN-TV (or Regional News Network, as this indie station in the Upper Hudson Valley calls itself) as an anchor, reporter and producer-reporter of long-form investigative pieces... More »


Tracie Strahan

Tracie Strahan, Early Morning Reporter for WNBC-TV

The 1999 Syracuse University grad began her career as a news production assistant for New York’s fabled 1010 WINS radio while still in college. She became a reporter and producer at WNDU-TV in South Bend, Ind. In 2003, she worked as an anchor of “CBS News on mtvU,” the MTV service on college campuses... More »


Chuck Todd

Chuck Todd, NBC News Political Director

Mr. Todd knows politics from the inside out, having worked on state initiatives in his home state of Florida and national campaigns based in Washington, D.C., before joining the National Journal’s “Hotline” in 1992. During the next 15 years, he helped “Hotline” grow from a single daily political briefing to a major player on the political scene, eventually becoming its editor-in-chief... More »