Fredricka Whitfield is a newsroom reporter for CNN. She anchors the weekend versions of CNN Newsroom and sometimes substitutes for anchors during weekdays. She is the daughter of Olympian Mal Whitfield.
Since joining CNN in 2002, Whitfield has reported many major stories, including the death of Ronald Reagan. (She was the first anchor to break the news of Reagan's death in 2004.) She has reported the devastating Asian tsunami which occurred in De...
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Fredricka Whitfield is a newsroom reporter for CNN. She anchors the weekend versions of CNN Newsroom and sometimes substitutes for anchors during weekdays. She is the daughter of Olympian Mal Whitfield.
Since joining CNN in 2002, Whitfield has reported many major stories, including the death of Ronald Reagan. (She was the first anchor to break the news of Reagan's death in 2004.) She has reported the devastating Asian tsunami which occurred in December 2004. Whitfield also reported from the Persian Gulf region during Operation Iraqi Freedom.
Prior to joining CNN, Whitfield was a correspondent for NBC News and served as an Atlanta-based correspondent for NBC Nightly News. She worked for other news programs at NBC including The Today Show; she was a morning and afternoon anchor as well as an assignment reporter.
Before joining NBC, Whitfield worked at WPLG-TV in Miami, News Channel 8 in Washington, D.C., KTVT-TV in Dallas, WTNH in New Haven, Connecticut, and WCIV in Charleston, South...
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