Adriana Diaz | |
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Born | Adriana Sabrina Diaz 1984 (age 40–41) New York City, U.S. |
Occupation | Television reporter |
Employer | CBS News |
Spouse | Bryan Smith |
Adriana Sabrina Diaz (born 1984, New York City) is an American television journalist for CBS News.
Born to Dominican immigrants, Diaz won the title of Miss New York Teen USA 2003 at the age of 17 . She competed at Miss Teen USA 2003, held in Palm Springs, California. That pageant was won by Tami Farrell. Diaz won the Miss New York USA 2006 title in a state pageant held in late 2005. [1]
She competed for the title of Miss USA in Baltimore, Maryland on April 21, 2006. The pageant was won by Miss Kentucky, Tara Conner. Diaz attended Stuyvesant High School in NYC. She has a BA degree from Princeton University, majoring in public and international affairs, and a master's degree in Public Affairs and Public Administration from Columbia University. [2] Before getting her masters, she worked at Goldman Sachs. [3]
Diaz worked for Channel One News, a youth-oriented news program. She also was a financial analyst at Goldman Sachs. [2]
From 2016 to 2017, Diaz, who speaks Mandarin, was the Beijing-based Asia correspondent for CBS News. She returned to the United States and became a CBS News national correspondent based in Chicago, occasionally filling in on WBBM-TV on a freelance basis, [2] and has worked as a digital journalist for CBSN. She also served as the anchor of the Saturday edition of CBS Weekend News until 2024. [3] [4]
Since September 30, 2024, Diaz serves as co-anchor of CBS Mornings Plus, a third hour of that show which mainly streams and airs on some CBS stations. [5]
In 2020, she married cardiologist Bryan Smith at St. Mary of the Angels Church in Chicago. [6]