Fredricka Whitfield

Based at CNN's world headquarters in Atlanta, Fredricka Whitfield anchors the weekend edition of CNN Newsroom. Whitfield also works as a correspondent for the network, reporting on breaking news events worldwide.

Since joining CNN in 2002, Whitfield has reported from the Persian Gulf region during the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, the debates over public displays of the Ten Commandments, and arrests in the arson cases involving African American churches in Alabama.

Before CNN, Whitfield was a correspondent for NBC News, NBC Nightly News, and other network programs including The Today Show.

Whitfield has covered such stories as the Elian Gonzalez saga, the 2000 Presidential election, the summer 2001 shark attacks, and the West Nile virus. Since the 9/11 terrorist attacks, she has continued to cover the unfolding event as the crisis evolved from a search-and-rescue mission into a war on terrorism. She also covered the 1996 Olympics, the Olympic Park bombing in Atlanta and the subsequent search for Eric Rudolph, and the refugee crisis in Macedonia during the War in Kosovo.

Before joining NBC, Whitfield was a reporter and anchor at WPLG-TV in Miami, an evening anchor for News Channel 8 in Washington, DC, and a general assignment reporter at KTVT-TV in Dallas. Earlier, Whitfield was a general assignment reporter for WTNH in New Haven, Connecticut. She began her professional career as a reporter and morning anchor for WCIV in Charleston, South Carolina.

Whitfield has garnered multiple awards and honors for her broadcasting work from Sigma Delta Chi, The Society of Professional Journalists, and the Associated Press, including the 2002 Howard University School of Communications Alumna of the Year; the 2005 George Peabody Award for live coverage of Hurricane Katrina and aftermath; the 2005 Ebony Award for Outstanding Women in Marketing and Communications; the 2007 Emmy Award for outstanding live coverage of a breaking news story long form; the 2008 NAMD Communicator of the Year; the 2008 Howard University Postgraduate Achievement in the field of Journalism; and the 2009 NYABJ Award for long form feature.