Joie Chen
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Joie Chen was named a CBS News correspondent in March 2002. She is based in Washington, D.C. and covers Capitol Hill, among other beats. Chen has covered two presidential summit meetings, President Bush's address at West Point and was the primary correspondent covering the Washington, D.C. sniper siege for the CBS Evening News and The Early Show.
Previously, Chen served as an anchor or co-anchor and correspondent for CNN while based in Atlanta (1994-2001). She anchored coverage of many major news stories including the September 11, 2001 attacks, as well as the military developments in the strikes against Afghanistan. She also anchored the network’s coverage of the Columbine High School shootings, the trial of Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh, as well as coverage of the Olympic bombing for which she won a national Emmy award. Chen won the 1996 CableACE Award (with her co-anchor, Leon Harris) for Best Newscasters.
Before that, Chen was an anchor for CNN International (1991-94) covering the U.S. military operations in Somalia and Bosnia and the death of North Korean leader Kim Il-Sung among many stories.
Before joining CNN, Chen was a reporter and anchor at WXIA-TV Atlanta (1985-91), where she covered the 1988 Democratic National Convention, Hurricane Hugo and the Cuban riots at the Atlanta Federal Penitentiary. During that period, she also reported for USA Today's television program. Chen began her broadcast journalism career as a reporter for WCIV-TV Charleston, S.C. (1983-85).
She was born on August 28, 1961, in Chicago, Ill. Chen was graduated from Northwestern University with bachelor’s (1982) and master’s (1983) degrees in journalism. She and her husband live with their son in the Washington, D.C. area.
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