Sharon Alfonsi

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Sharyn Alfonsi is a reporter for CBS News. She has also occasionally anchored the CBS Evening News on the weekend broadcasts.

Contents 1 Nearly hit in Israel during the War 2 IN THE GAME 3 "Funny as Hell" 4 Mississippi

[edit] Nearly hit in Israel during the War

CBS News correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi had a near-miss in Israel with a missile landing close to her shelter. The network is still recovering from its own tragedy: two camera crew members killed and correspondent Kimberly Dozier seriously hurt in a car bomb explosion in Iraq on May 29.

[edit] IN THE GAME

"It's like baseball," CBS Evening News anchor Bob Schieffer tells Ed Bark. "You've got to put 'em into the game to see if they're any good. And we're finding some really good ones." Some of his favorites:

Lara Logan: "She's the next Barbara Walters. In addition to being very smart, let's face it, she's beautiful."

Lee Cowan: "All of a sudden he's coming into his own."

Sharyn Alfonsi: "She's smart, funny as hell." Schieffer added in a later article that " She will be a treasure of the Network one day."

[edit] "Funny as Hell"

Sharyn Alfonsi was named a CBS News correspondent, based in New York, in July 2004. She has also anchored the CBS Evening News. She is one of the Network's best writers and most accomplished reporters. She has travelled across the globe during her time at CBS. Covering a range of stories, most notably the war in Iraq, Aghanistan, the War in Israel, Hurricane Katrina, and the Sago Mine Disaster in West Virginia.

Prior to that, Sharyn worked as a reporter and substitute anchor for WBZ-TV, the CBS-owned station in Boston (2000-03), where she covered the ongoing Catholic church scandal, the Michael Skakel trial and the Rhode Island nightclub fire, among other stories.

She served as reporter and substitute anchor for KIRO-TV Seattle, Wash. (1998-2000) where she covered the WTO riots. Prior to that she was a general assignment reporter for WVEC–TV Norfolk, Va. (1995-97) where she traveled extensively with the military. Alfonsi began her career in broadcast journalism at KHBS-TV Ft. Smith, Ark. (1994-95), where she served as a news reporter, weekend weather anchor, photographer and editor.

[edit] Mississippi

Sharyn Alfonsi grew up in McLean, Virginia. She graduated from the University of Mississippi, Oxford in 1994 with a Bachelor of Science degree in political science and journalism studies. She was an Ole Miss favorite and campus beauty and is rumored to be the inspiration for Darby Shaw in John Grisham's The Pelican Brief.^{[citation needed]}