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.

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 news magazines 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.

References

  1. ^ a b c Garza, Melita Marie (1992-09-20). "Getting her due; Hispanic reporter Victoria Corderi speaks for cultural diversity". Chicago Tribune. p. 90. Retrieved 2024-02-13 – via Newspapers.com.
  2. ^ "Victoria Corderi new CBS morning news anchor". Reno Gazette-Journal. 1990-07-26. p. 46. Retrieved 2024-02-13 – via Newspapers.com.
  3. ^ Shister, Gail (1994-01-26). "The mother of all deals: NBC allows job-sharing for 2 reporters". The Philadelphia Inquirer. p. 41. Retrieved 2024-02-13 – via Newspapers.com.
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