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"I'm a mother, I'm a journalist, I'm an American; I'm all of those things, and it really complicates your job when you have all these things come into play."
-Paula Zahn
| Date of Birth: February 24, 1956 |
| Birthplace: Omaha, Nebraska |
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| If we have to hear bad news, we want Paula Zahn to deliver it. The beautiful broadcaster is one of the most intelligent talking heads on television and her direct, unbiased insight is refreshing in an age of empty sound bites. |
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| The multiple Emmy award-winning news journalist is the host of CNN's Paula Zahn Now. Before landing at the all-news network, Paula made headlines as a head-turning anchor with Good Morning America and CBS This Morning. |
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Paula Zahn was born on February 24, 1956, in Omaha, Nebraska. The fetching newscaster didn't stay there for long, however, as her father's job as an IBM sales executive required him to move frequently. In the years that followed, she and her three siblings lived in the sleepy towns of Canton, Ohio and Naperville, Illinois. Reflecting upon the family's many changes of address, Zahn later joked that IBM really stood for "I've been moved."
While her zip code wasn't always consistent, her passion for music was. In fact, Paula's expertise with a cello earned her a scholarship to Stephens College in Missouri. Once enrolled, Paula explored her interest in broadcasting by working for the campus television station. Several years and dozens of news stories later, she graduated with a degree in journalism in 1978.
Paula's first paid journalism job came quickly, as she was hired at WFAA in Dallas. The cub reporter was ready for hard-hitting news, but the station had other things in mind. "The assignment editor told me I was being sent out to do a two-minute piece about 'things that people left behind'," she recalls. "In other words, items people ordered but never picked up. So I spent two days on the phone calling around. I found a taxidermist who had an enormous big-game animal that someone had paid to preserve, but that was still there 30 years later."
Fortunately for Paula, bigger and better assignments did come along. In the next 10 years, she gradually moved up the ladder with stops at KFMB-TV in San Diego, where she received an Emmy award for investigative reporting, and KPRC-TV in Houston, where she received a National Commission on Working Women Broadcasting award and a Newscaster of the Year award from the American Women in Radio and Television. She then moved on to WNEV-TV in Boston and KCBS-TV in Los Angeles, where she received another Emmy for her reporting on a tragic mid-air collision above Cerritos, California. But although a life of local news coverage may be fine for some, Paula hungered for more exposure. |
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