John Roberts (television reporter)
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John D. Roberts (born November 15, 1956 in Toronto, Ontario) is a television journalist for CNN, where he has anchored This Week at War and served as the Senior National Correspondent based in Washington, DC. He will begin April 16 as co-anchor of CNN's flagship morning program American Morning
Prior to CNN, Roberts served as Chief White House Correspondent at CBS from 1999 to 2006. He had been widely considered a potential replacement for CBS Evening News anchor Dan Rather after Rather stepped down from the anchor desk in March 2005, but Bob Schieffer was chosen on an interim basis to be the next CBS Evening News anchor, and in subsequent months, it became clear that Roberts was not under consideration for the job. In February 2006, Roberts left for CNN.
Roberts grew up in Mississauga, Ontario. He attended the University of Toronto, and worked for many years in Canadian media before joining CBS in 1995.
Roberts first started working in radio at the local college station CFRE-FM, located in Mississauga, Ontario. He briefly worked on-air on radio station CJBK in London, Ontario in 1977, moving back to Toronto to CHUM that year. In 1979, he worked as an entertainment reporter and co-host with Jeanne Beker of the music newsmagazine The NewMusic until 1985. He was a video jockey with CITY-TV owned MuchMusic, a music video channel on which he and Christopher Ward appeared as the first on-air personalities when the network launched in 1984. He also served as an entertainment reporter and anchor on CITY-TV's CityPulse, and became anchor of CityPulse Tonight in 1987 when Anne Mroczkowski moved from anchoring that newscast to join Gord Martineau on the 6 pm edition. Between 1989 and 1990 Roberts was an anchor/reporter for WCIX-TV (now WFOR-TV), the CBS Owned and Operated television station in Miami. Roberts returned to Canada in September, 1990 to co-host the national CTV morning show Canada AM, initially with Deborah McGregor, and later with Pamela Wallin. In his Canadian media career, he went by the name J.D. Roberts.
On July 19, 2005 he introduced CBS's coverage on the announcement of the nomination of John G. Roberts, Jr. for the Supreme Court of the United States. He once joked in a newspaper column that he asked to be referred to as "Your Honor", due to their having the same name.
[edit] External links
- Biography at cnn.com
- What's In A Name? - Commentary by John D. Roberts on the Supreme Court nomination of John Roberts, and his opinion on the name.
John Roberts birth name is John Robertson. His wife, son and daughter all take the Robertson name.
