Victoria Corderi

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Victoria Corderi (born 1957) is an American journalist and recipient of three national news Emmys and a George Foster Peabody Award for Excellence in Journalism. She is also a 1997 recipient of the Edward R. Murrow Award for investigative journalism.

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Early life

Corderi, who is Cuban-American, graduated from St. Bonaventure University in 1979 with a Bachelor of Arts in journalism. [1] She is married and has four children.

Career

Corderi was a reporter with The Miami News , a defunct afternoon newspaper. She then began as a reporter for WPLG-TV in Miami in 1982.

Corderi covered the 1985 8.0 magnitude earthquake in Chile for CBS News. At CBS, she served as a correspondent for the newsmagazines 48 Hours and Street Stories and as news anchor for the CBS Morning News , [1] [2] as well as anchoring CBS Newsbreaks in between programming.

In September 1992, Corderi was hired by WABC-TV. She was brought in to be the co-anchor for the station's freshly launched midday Eyewitness News broadcast alongside morning co-anchor and future Fox News contributor E.D. Hill and to serve as a reporter for other newscasts. Corderi's tenure there was a short one, as she was only at WABC for eighteen months.

Corderi was employed at NBC News starting in 1994 as a correspondent for Dateline NBC , initially under a novel job-sharing arrangement with fellow reporter Lisa Rudolph. [3]

Corderi is a recipient of the Las Primeras Award for being one of the first Hispanic network anchors. She is listed in Who's Who Among Hispanic Americans. She is also a recipient of the Gerald Loeb Award bestowed by the UCLA Anderson School of Management. She has received three national news Emmys and a George Foster Peabody Award for Excellence in Journalism. [1] She is also a 1997 recipient of the Edward R. Murrow Award for investigative journalism.

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