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Sharyl Attkisson
Attkisson on USAF B-52 in 1999, one of the first journalists to fly on a combat mission over Kosovo
Born1961 (age 62–63)
Sarasota, Florida, U.S.
EducationUniversity of Florida
OccupationCommentator
WebsiteOfficial website

Sharyl Attkisson (born 1961)[1] is an American commentator and formerly an investigative correspondent in the Washington bureau for CBS News. She had also substituted as anchor for the CBS Evening News. She resigned from CBS News on March 10, 2014 after 21 years with the network.

Early life

Attkisson was born in Florida.[2] Her step-father is an orthopedic surgeon and her brother is an emergency room physician. Attkisson graduated from the University of Florida with a degree in broadcast journalism in 1982.[3]

Career

Attkisson began her broadcast journalism career in 1982 as a reporter at WUFT-TV, the PBS station in Gainesville, Florida. She later worked as an anchor and reporter at WTVX-TV Fort Pierce/West Palm Beach, Florida from 1982-85, WBNS-TV, the CBS affiliate in Columbus, Ohio from 1985-86, and WTVT Tampa, Florida (1986-90).[4]

1990s

From 1990 to 1993, Attkisson was an anchor for CNN. She also was a key anchor for CBS space exploration coverage in 1993.[5] Attkisson left CNN in 1993,[6] moving to CBS, where she anchored the television news broadcast CBS News Up to the Minute and became an investigative correspondent based in Washington D.C.[4]She also served on the University of Florida's Journalism College Advisory Board (1993-97) and was its chair in 1996.[4] The University of Florida gave her an Outstanding Achievement Award in 1997. From 1997 to 2003, Attkisson simultaneously hosted CBS News Up to the Minute and the PBS Health news magazine HealthWeek.[7]

2000s

Attkisson received an Investigative Reporters and Editors (I.R.E.) Finalist award for Dangerous Drugs in 2000.[8]

In 2001, Attkisson received an Investigative Emmy Award nomination for Firestone Tire Fiasco from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. [citation needed] In 2002, Attkisson co-authored a college textbook titled Writing Right for Broadcast and Internet News .[9] That same year, she won a 2002 Emmy Award for her Investigative Journalism about the American Red Cross.[4] The award was presented in New York City on September 10, 2002.[10] Attkisson was part of the CBS News team that received RTNDA-Edward R. Murrow Awards in 2005 for Overall Excellence.[8]

In 2006, Attkisson served as Capitol Hill correspondent for CBS.[11] That led to her being one of a small number of female anchors covering the 2006 midterms.[12] Attkisson was part of the CBS News team that received RTNDA-Edward R. Murrow Awards in 2008 for Overall Excellence.[8]

In 2008, Attkisson learned that claims by Hillary Clinton to have dodged sniper fire in Bosnia were unfounded.[13] In 2009, she won an Investigative Emmy Award for Business and Financial Reporting for her exclusive reports on the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) and the bank bailout.[8] The award was presented on December 7 at Fordham University's Lincoln Center Campus in New York City.[14]

2010s

Attkisson returned to the University of Florida as a keynote speaker at the College of Journalism and Communications in 2010.[3] That same year, she received an Emmy Award nomination for her investigations into members of Congress, and she also received a 2010 Emmy Award nomination for her investigation into waste of tax dollars.[15] In July 2011, Attkisson was nominated for an Emmy Award for her Follow the Money investigations into Congressional travel to the Copenhagen climate summit, and problems with aid to Haiti earthquake victims.[16][8]

In 2012, CBS News accepted an Investigative Reporting Award given to Attkisson's reporting on ATF's Fast and Furious gunwalker controversy. The award was from Accuracy in Media, a politically conservative American, non-profit news media watchdog group, and was presented at a Conservative Political Action Conference.[17]

In June 2012, Attkisson's investigative reporting for the Gunwalker story also won the CBS Evening News the Radio and Television News Directors Association's National Edward R. Murrow Award for Excellence in Video Investigative Reporting. The award was presented October 8, 2012 in New York City.[18] In July 2012, Attkisson's Gunwalker: Fast and Furious reporting received an Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Investigative Journalism.[19]

In 2012 Attkisson's reporting on vaccines was criticized by medical experts such as David Gorski and Steven Salzberg as promoting pseudoscientific theories about an alleged link between autism and vaccines.[20][21][22]

On March 10, 2014, Attkisson resigned from CBS News, reportedly due to frustration over what she perceived to be the network's liberal bias and lack of dedication to investigative reporting, as well as issues she had with the network’s corporate partners. She is working on a book tentatively called Stonewalled: One Reporter's Fight for Truth Against the Forces of Obstruction, Intimidation, and Harassment in Obama's Washington (Harpers) regarding the difficulties of reporting critically about the administration. In the book, she alleges that her personal computer was hacked with "spyware [that] included programs that Attkisson says monitored her every keystroke and gave the snoops access to all her e-mails and the passwords to her financial accounts."[23][24][13][25][26]

Personal life

Attkisson has reached third degree black belt in taekwondo.[2] She is married and has a daughter.[27]

References

  1. ^ Gill, Kay (2007). Who, a Directory of Prominent People. Omnigraphics. Retrieved December 4, 2012.
  2. ^ a b "Sharyl Attkisson, Investigative Correspondent". CBS. Archived from the original on November 21, 2013. Retrieved June 29, 2011.
  3. ^ a b "21st Century Newsroom". University of Florida. Retrieved June 29, 2011.
  4. ^ a b c d "Sharyl Attkisson full biography". CBS Interactive. Archived from the original on August 16, 2013. Retrieved November 28, 2012.
  5. ^ Hogan, Alfred. "Televising the Space Age: A descriptive chronology of CBS News special coverage of space exploration from 1957 to 2003" (PDF). University of Maryland. p. 260. Retrieved June 29, 2011.
  6. ^ "TV Notes". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. May 28, 1993. p. 42. Retrieved June 29, 2011.
  7. ^ "Sharyl Attkisson–About This Person". The New York Times. The New York Times Company. Retrieved June 29, 2011.
  8. ^ a b c d e "Sharyl Attkisson profile". CBS News. Archived from the original on November 19, 2013. Retrieved August 30, 2012.
  9. ^ "Writing Right for Broadcast and Internet News". Pearson Higher Education. Retrieved June 29, 2011.
  10. ^ "23rd Annua; News & Documentary Emmy Awards - With Prominent 9/11 Coverage". Emmyonline.org. Retrieved August 30, 2012.
  11. ^ "Sharyl Attkisson Is Named Cbs News Capitol Hill Correspondent". CBS Corporation. Retrieved June 25, 2014.
  12. ^ Stanley, Alessandra (November 8, 2006). "Election Coverage Still a Men's Club". The New York Times. The New York Times Company. Retrieved June 29, 2011.
  13. ^ a b Pavlich, Katie (March 10, 2014). "Citing Liberal Bias, Investigative Reporter Sharyl Attkisson Resigns From CBS News". Townhall. Retrieved March 10, 2014.
  14. ^ "7th ANNUAL BUSINESS & FINANCIAL EMMY AWARDS - NOMINATIONS". Emmyonline.org. Retrieved August 30, 2012.
  15. ^ "Full List of Nominations for the 2010 News and Documentary Emmy Awards: Television Industry news, TV ratings, analysis, celebrity event photos". TVWeek. Retrieved June 25, 2014.
  16. ^ Attkisson 2011 Emmy nomination, emmyonline.tv; accessed October 28, 2014.
  17. ^ "Loesch, Attkisson to receive AIM awards". POLITICO.com. February 7, 2012. Retrieved February 10, 2012.
  18. ^ "2012 National Edward R. Murrow Award Winners". Radio Television Digital News Association. Retrieved June 13, 2012.
  19. ^ "The Emmy Awards - - 33rd Annual News & Documentary Emmy Awards nominations". Emmyonline.tv. Retrieved August 30, 2012.
  20. ^ "Vaccines and autism: a new scientific review". Cbsnews.com. April 1, 2011. Retrieved June 25, 2014.
  21. ^ "Sharyl Attkisson". ScienceBasedMedicine.org. Retrieved June 25, 2014.
  22. ^ Salzberg, Steven (July 23, 2012). "Anti-Vaccine Movement Causes The Worst Whooping Cough Epidemic In 70 Years". Forbes.com. Retrieved July 26, 2012.
  23. ^ "Attkisson: they bugged my computer", nypost.com, October 27, 2014; accessed October 28, 2014.
  24. ^ Byers, Dylan (March 10, 2014). "Sharyl Attkisson resigns from CBS News". POLITICO. Retrieved March 11, 2014.
  25. ^ Macneal, Caitlin (March 10, 2014). "CBS Investigative Reporter Sharyl Attkisson Resigns From Network". Talking Points Memo. Retrieved March 11, 2014.
  26. ^ "CBS ignores ex-reporter's claims it killed anti-Obama stories", nypost.com, October 28, 2014.
  27. ^ "Attkisson biography". Televisionnewscenter.org. Retrieved March 11, 2014.

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