(CBS) Meg Oliver is the anchor of Up To the Minute, CBS News’ overnight broadcast.

Oliver has served as a freelance correspondent based in Washington, D.C., for CBS Newspath since May 2005. She has covered several major news stories, including the nomination of Chief Justice John Roberts, President George W. Bush's 2006 State of the Union address and the congressional hearings on the federal response to Hurricane Katrina.

Prior to that, Oliver had been the 5 p.m., 6 p.m. and 11 p.m. weekday anchor for KGPE-TV in Fresno, Calif. (2001-04). She was a reporter and anchor at WWJ/WKBD-TV in Detroit, Mich., (1998-2001), and a reporter at WTIC-TV in Hartford, Conn. (1997-98). Oliver served as a reporter for North West Cable News in its Seattle and Boise, Idaho, offices (1995-97). She began her journalism career as a reporter and anchor at KCFW-TV in Kalispell, Mont. (1993-95).

Oliver has earned eight Emmy nominations, including one for "Outstanding Anchor" and two for "Best Reporter." She received an Associated Press award for her reports on "The Storm of 1998," as well as three other Associated Press awards and two Society of Professional Journalists awards. Oliver also received a 2001 Michigan Association of Broadcasters award for a series on Airport Security after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

Oliver was born in Birmingham, Mich. She was graduated from the University of Montana in 1993 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Journalism. Oliver and her husband have one daughter.

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