Robin Meade
reporter
Biography
lead news anchor for CNN Headline News' morning show Robin & Company.
Background
The daughter of a minister and part Native American, Meade grew
up in New London, Ohio and graduated from New London High School. She attended
Ashland University and Malone College (USA) in Ohio. In 1992, she became Miss
Ohio and was a top 10 finalist in the Miss America pageant.
Career
Meade
began a career broadcasting as a reporter at WMFD-TV in Mansfield, Ohio. She worked
as a anchor and reporter at WCMH-TV in Columbus, Ohio, and at WJW-TV in Cleveland.
Later, she got a job as the morning news anchor of WSVN-TV's Today in Florida
in Miami. She served as the station's noon anchor and health reporter.
She went to work at NBC Chicago affiliate WMAQ-TV where she started anchoring the morning newscasts and then co anchored the weekend newscasts and also served as a general assignment correspondent for the station. During her tenure with the NBC affiliate, she covered the 1996 Olympics, which included special reporting on the Centennial Olympic Park bombing.
She then entered CNN, where she works now. Among other stories, Meade anchored the network's coverage of Operation Enduring Freedom as well as that from Operation Iraqi Freedom in spring of 2003. She is based in CNN's world hq in Atlanta.
Meade currently hosts Robin & Company on CNN Headline News every morning, along with Will Selva, Bob Van Dillen, Adrianna Costa and Jennifer Westhoven.
Awards
Meade won regional
Emmy Award for her efforts covering the 1995 collision between a school bus and
a train in Fox River Grove, Illinois, that killed seven and injured more than
24 teenagers. She was nominated for a regional Emmy for her report on how to decrease
chances of injury in survivable plane crashes.
In 2002, Meade was recognized
by Lycos as one of the top 20 most popular television news personalities in the
broadcast news industry. In 2004, she was voted "Sexiest Newscaster"
by a Playboy.com online poll, with 40% of the vote (16,145 votes over a total
of 40,380)
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