Craig Fiegener

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Craig Fiegener is a journalist who left the CBS owned-and-operated Los Angeles television station KCBS in December 2006. Described as dynamic, Fiegener joined the station in 2002 as an Inland Empire Bureau Reporter, covering the fast growing Riverside-San Bernardino region. Since December 31, 2006, Fiegener is currently the Managing Editor of InstantRiverside.com [1]. He is also a contributing reporter to the national cable news operation of CBS News on Logo [2].

Not only did Fiegener grow up in the Riverside community he covers, it is also where he began his broadcasting career when he was 14. He got his first break hosting a weekend radio show at KMAY. While a student at John W. North High School, he worked weekends at KTSJ in Pomona. Shortly after graduation, he was offered his first full time gig as morning host and program director at KHSJ in Hemet.

In 1993, Fiegener became the first Inland Empire Bureau Reporter for Los Angeles powerhouse radio station KFI. At the same time, he was taking an interest in television news. He handled reporting jobs at KESQ in Palm Springs, and the Orange County Newschannel. In 1996, he made the move to ABC's KFSN in Fresno. While in Fresno, he reported for the top-rated morning news, and launched KFSN's consumer watch series, which he produced and reported until returning home to Southern California and KCBS.

In 2000, he was awarded an Emmy for Best Investigative Reporting. It recognized his work on a story that exposed a rental housing scheme which cost more than 30 unsuspecting Fresno tenants thousands of dollars. In 2000 and 2002, Fiegener was honored as Reporter of the Year by the Associated Press Television and Radio Association of California and Nevada. Also in 2000 and 2002, APTRA recognized him in its Best Consumer Reporting category.

InstantRiverside.com is a news organization based on the internet and on cable television. Unlike traditional news operations that focus on covering a large geographic area, InstantRiverside.com devotes its resources to news that directly affects Riverside County and its neighbors.