Denise LeClair Cobb
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Denise LeClair Cobb is an American
former CNN
and CNN Headline News
anchor. She was one of the original CNN anchors when it launched in 1980 and was the first person to speak on air when Headline News (then CNN2) launched.
When Denise left CNN, she joined News Travel Network as a correspondent and producer. In that capacity, she traveled the country and the world reporting on travel and tourism for television stations across the United States and overseas
Denise currently serves on the Board of Career Transition For Dancers
, an organization that helps dancers establish post-performance careers. Outside of her work with Career Transitions, Denise is very active with the Naples Children and Education Foundation, where she was a founding trustee.
Denise and her husband, Brian Cobb, were named the 2004 "Philanthropists of the Year" by the Community Foundation of Collier County, Southwest Florida Community Foundation and the Naples chapter of the Association of Fundraising Professionals. Denise was named a Woman of the Year by Gulfshore Life in 2000.
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former CNN
CNN
Cable News Network is a U.S. cable news channel founded in 1980 by Ted Turner. Upon its launch, CNN was the first channel to provide 24-hour television news coverage, and the first all-news television channel in the United States...
and CNN Headline News
CNN Headline News
HLN, formerly known as CNN Headline News and CNN2, is a cable television news channel based in the United States and a spinoff of the cable news television channel, CNN. Initially airing tightly-formatted 30-minute newscasts around the clock, since 2005, the channel has increasingly aired long-form...
anchor. She was one of the original CNN anchors when it launched in 1980 and was the first person to speak on air when Headline News (then CNN2) launched.
When Denise left CNN, she joined News Travel Network as a correspondent and producer. In that capacity, she traveled the country and the world reporting on travel and tourism for television stations across the United States and overseas
Denise currently serves on the Board of Career Transition For Dancers
Career Transition For Dancers
Career Transition For Dancers is a nonprofit organization with offices in New York, Los Angeles and Chicago dedicated to helping dancers establish new careers when they have retired from their performing careers...
, an organization that helps dancers establish post-performance careers. Outside of her work with Career Transitions, Denise is very active with the Naples Children and Education Foundation, where she was a founding trustee.
Denise and her husband, Brian Cobb, were named the 2004 "Philanthropists of the Year" by the Community Foundation of Collier County, Southwest Florida Community Foundation and the Naples chapter of the Association of Fundraising Professionals. Denise was named a Woman of the Year by Gulfshore Life in 2000.