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Robin Roberts
Co-Anchor of “Good Morning America”
R
obin Roberts was named In March 2003, Roberts traveled to
anchor of ABC News' "Good the Persian Gulf Region to report from
Morning America" in May Kuwait on the impending war with
2005. Iraq. In March 2004, Roberts returned
At "Good Morning America," to the war zone, reporting on the one
Roberts reports on a wide array of year anniversary of the war. Roberts
topics and issues for the morning has also reported on the practicality of
broadcast. She has covered numerous sky marshals on airplanes; the impact
special events ranging from the home- of the World Trade Center attacks on
coming of soldiers aboard the USS the town of Rockville Center, N.Y.;
Roosevelt to the Golden Jubilee at the custody battle over 12-year-old
Buckingham Palace to the 25th Timmie Meldrum; and the controver-
anniversary of the papacy of Pope sial gentrification of Harlem.
John Paul II in Vatican City. Roberts Roberts has contributed to "Good
has also interviewed newsmakers Morning America" since June 1995,
from First Lady Laura Bush to sports and has worked in broadcasting for
legends Tiger Woods and Shaquille more than 20 years. Other ABC
O'Neal. assignments have included segments
Most recently, Roberts reported hosting "Good Morning America Sun-
from Des Moines, Iowa, where she day" and "Prime Time."
anchored a Town Hall meeting with From 1990 to 2005, Roberts was
presidential candidate Sen. Hillary also a contributor to ESPN, where she ter," contributing to "NFL
Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.). She has was one of the network's most versa- PrimeTime" from 1990-1994, and
also traveled to Africa with former tile commentators. Her assignments providing reports and interviews from
President Clinton to bring viewers a there included hosting "SportsCen- the field.
firsthand look at the devastating AIDS
crisis in that part of the world. There,
she and the president visited cities
and villages around the continent to
bring the story to "GMA" viewers.
Roberts is also the only morning
anchor to have ever broadcast live
from inside a Navy submarine.
In August 2005, Roberts found her per-
sonal and professional lives collide when
Hurricane Katrina devastated the city of
New Orleans and the entire Mississippi
Gulf Coast -- a part of the country she has
called home for most of her life. Roberts
reported live amid the devastation in the
days following the storm and launched
"GMA" Gets It Done," a year-long initia-
tive to get her hometown of Pass Christian,
Miss., up and running. She has returned to
the Gulf Coast numerous times to continue
her reporting and update viewers on how
residents, businesses and everyone in that
part of the country is mending post-Katrina.
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