Michelle Gielan

Michelle Gielan (born March 31, 1978) is an American broadcast journalist who is currently at CBS News and anchored the morning news programs CBS Morning News and Up to the Minute. Her last broadcast for CBS was Thursday, June 17, 2010. She is also a correspondent for CBS' The Early Show.

Career

Michelle joined CBS News in July 2008. In 2009, Michelle anchored and co-produced "Happy Week" at CBS, a week-long series of interviews focusing on fostering happiness in life, relationships, the workplace and at home, especially during the recession. The series aired on Up to the Minute.

Prior to that, Michelle was a reporter and fill-in anchor at Fox owned-and-operated station WFLD (channel 32) in Chicago, Illinois. She has also worked at NBC affiliate KTSM in El Paso, Texas as a general assignment reporter and anchor of NewsChannel 9 Today, the station's morning newscast. She began her career in journalism as a freelance anchor and reporter for the Los Angeles, California-based nationally-distributed high school news program Channel One News.

Michelle graduated cum laude with Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering from Tufts University. She did undergraduate work at the University of Sydney in Australia and studied broadcast journalism at UCLA. She serves on the board of the Living Values Education program and volunteers for LIFT - Leading India's Future Today.

Trivia

In January, 2010, men's lifestyle magazine Manolith.com named Michelle as one of "40 of America's Hottest Newswomen." ^[1]

References

1. ^ [1] Manolith.com

External links

• CBS News biography

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Preceded by Meg Oliver	CBS News: Up to the Minute Michelle Gielan 2009–2010	Succeeded by Emily Smith
Preceded by Susan McGinnis	CBS Morning News anchor Michelle Gielan 2008–2010	Succeeded by Betty Nguyen

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