Michelle Miller

CBS News Correspondent

(CBS)  Michelle Miller is one of a handful of African American journalists who have made an impressive mark on news reporting from coast to coast. She currently serves as New York-based correspondent and fill-in anchor for CBS News. Her 18 year career in broadcast and print journalism includes work with the Los Angeles Times, the Star Tribune in Minneapolis, WWL TV Channel 4 in New Orleans , WIS TV in Columbia, South Carolina, the Orange County Newschannel and ABC News Nightline in Washington, DC.

While a full-time journalist, Ms. Miller also taught journalism and related courses at Dillard University in New Orleans.

Ms. Miller has reported on a wide spectrum of international and national news including Hurricane Katrina, the 2004 Presidential Election, and has interviewed prominent figures on both the local and world stage, including President Bill Clinton, Rev. Jesse Jackson, Oprah Winfrey, former Soviet Premier Mikhail Gorbachev, Nobel Peace Prize Winner Wangari Mathai, former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, renowned artist Peter Max, Jazz Great Wynton Marsalis, Johnnie Cochran and the former Mayor of Jerusalem and present Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert.

Ms. Miller earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Journalism from Howard University and a Master of Science in Urban Studies from the University of New Orleans. She is also a participant in the Poynter Institute, studied abroad through the School for International Training's "Experiment in International Living" in both Kenya and Tanzania.

Ms. Miller's outstanding performance in her career has earned her many awards and honors, notably the Radio and Television News Directors Association's Edward R. Murrow Award and the National Association of Black Journalists' Award of Excellence. She was voted Woman of the Year by the National Sports Foundation and Best Weekend Anchor by Gambit Weekly in New Orleans.

Ms. Miller serves on the March of Dimes National Communications Advisory Council, was a founding member of the Women's Leadership Initiative for the United Way of New Orleans, and was Vice President of the YWCA of Greater New Orleans. She was President of both the Black Journalists Association of Southern California and the New Orleans Association of Black Journalists and is a member of the Greater New York Chapter of the Links, Inc.

She is married with two children.