Sharyn Alfonsi (born June 3, 1971) is an on-air correspondent and journalist who appears on ABC News. She reports for Good Morning America, World News with Diane Sawyer and ABC's Nightline. According to the Tyndall Report, she was one of the most visible American journalists on television.
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Alfonsi grew up in McLean, Virginia.[1] She graduated with honors from the University of Mississippi, Oxford in 1994, where she was a James Love Scholar.[1]
Alfonsi is an Emmy Award winning journalist who began her career in broadcast journalism at KHBS-TV in Fort Smith, Arkansas from 1994-95, where she served as a news reporter, weekend weather anchor, photographer and editor. She then became a general assignment reporter for WVEC–TV in Norfolk, Virginia from 1995-97, where she traveled extensively with the military. Between 1998-2000, she worked as a reporter and substitute anchor for KIRO-TV in Seattle, Washington, where she covered the World Trade Organization riots.
Between 2000-03, she worked as a reporter and substitute anchor for WBZ-TV, the CBS-owned station in Boston, where she covered the ongoing Catholic church scandals, , the Michael Skakel trial and the Rhode Island nightclub fire, among other stories.
Alfonsi was named a CBS News correspondent, based in New York, in July 2004. She also anchored the CBS Evening News. She has traveled across the globe covering a range of stories, most notably the war in Iraq, Afghanistan, the conflict in Israel, Hurricane Katrina, and the Sago Mine Disaster in West Virginia. Alfonsi had a near-miss in Israel when a missile landed close to her shelter. She was the lead reporter covering the Virginia Tech Massacre.
CBS Evening News anchor Bob Schieffer told Ed Bark, long-time TV critic of the Dallas Morning News, that Alfonsi is "... smart, funny as hell ... She will be a treasure of the Network one day."
She was one of several correspondents who departed the network after Katie Couric took over the anchor chair from Schieffer in September 2006. On August 10, 2006, Alfonsi was featured on CBS's Public Eye website.
On January 28, 2008, it was announced that Alfonsi would join ABC News as a New York based correspondent for World News with Charles Gibson and Good Morning America.[2]