Wyatt Andrews

CBS News Supreme Court Correspondent, Washington, D.C.

(CBS)  Wyatt Andrews has been a CBS News correspondent since 1981 and Washington-based Correspondent since 1988. Andrews covers the U.S. Supreme Court and is the primary correspondent for the "Reality Check" segment on The CBS Evening News with Katie Couric, a segment focusing on political claims and distortions. Andrews also tracks national trends in health care, energy and the environment.

Previously, he served as a CBS News White House correspondent (1989-91) during the first Bush Administration, during the time of the first Gulf War and summit meetings with the Soviets in Malta and Helsinki. Andrews covered the State Department for CBS News (1988-89), reporting on nuclear arms control, the Afghanistan accords, Middle East negotiations, U.S. relations with Mikhail Gorbachev and NATO.

He was CBS News' Moscow correspondent and bureau chief (1986-88) during a crucial period in Soviet history that included the early reforms of Gorbachev, the Chernobyl nuclear reactor accident, perestroika and U.S.-Soviet summits in Reykjavik, Moscow and Washington, D.C.

Andrews was a correspondent in CBS News’ Tokyo bureau (1984-86), where he covered stories throughout Asia, including the assassination of Indira Gandhi, anti-Marcos unrest in the Philippines, the Bhopal disaster and trade conflicts. Andrews joined CBS News in 1981 as a reporter in its Atlanta bureau.

He has won three Emmy Awards: for coverage of the Gandhi assassination (1984), the Reagan-Gorbachev summit in Reykjavik, Iceland (1986) and the Washington sniper case (2003).

Prior to joining CBS News, Andrews was a reporter for WPLG-TV Miami (1979-81), where he received a local Emmy Award for his reports on the exodus of Haitian refugees, as well as an Emmy and a Sigma Delta Chi Award for his series on the crime wave in Miami in 1980.

He was a reporter for WFTV Orlando (1977-79) and WTVR-TV Richmond, Va., (1974-77).

Andrews was born in New Orleans and grew up in Norfolk, Va. He was graduated from the University of Virginia in 1974 with honors with a B.A. in government and foreign affairs. Andrews and his wife live in Vienna, Va., with their four children.