Kristine Johnson is a Filipino American

Filipino American

Filipino Americans are Americans of Filipino ancestry. Filipino Americans, often shortened to "Fil-Ams", or "Pinoy",Filipinos in what is now the United States were first documented in the 16th century, with small settlements beginning in the 18th century...

 co-anchor

News presenter

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 at WCBS-TV

WCBS-TV

WCBS-TV, channel 2, is the flagship station of the CBS television network, located in New York City. The station's studios are located within the CBS Broadcast Center and its transmitter is atop the Empire State Building, both in Midtown Manhattan....

 in New York City

New York City

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, New York

New York

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, on the 5 p.m. and 11 p.m. newscasts

News broadcasting

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 with Maurice DuBois

Maurice DuBois

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She joined the station in November 2006 as co-anchor of the noon and 5 p.m. newscasts alongside Wragge, the station's former sports director. In June 2007 she and Wragge replaced Dana Tyler

Dana Tyler

Dana Tyler is a senior news anchor and reporter at WCBS-TV in New York City. She currently anchors the 6 pm newscasts with Chris Wragge, and also hosts Eye on New York, a half-hour weekly community affairs program for WCBS, as well as annual local specials CBS 2 at Tony's, CBS 2 at the Met and...

 and Jim Rosenfield

Jim Rosenfield

Jim Rosenfield is an American local television news anchor. He most recently co-anchored the noon and 6 p.m. newscasts on WCBS-TV in New York City alongside Dana Tyler. At various times, he has appeared on the newscasts at noon, 5, 6, and 11 pm at WCBS-TV...

 on the 11 p.m. newscast, with Tyler and Rosenfield taking the noon newscast.

She was previously an anchor of NBC

NBC

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's Early Today

Early Today

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and First Look

First Look

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on MSNBC

MSNBC

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, an NBC affiliate; she was also one of the alternating news anchors on NBC's Weekend Today

Weekend Today

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. She joined MSNBC in 2005. She announced on Early Today that October 20, 2006, was her last day and that she would be moving on.http://insidecable.blogsome.com/2006/10/20/kristine-johnson-departs-msnbc/. This was the same week that NBC Universal

NBC Universal

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 announced that it would cut 700 jobs.

Johnson had earlier worked as a reporter and anchor in Providence, Rhode Island

Providence, Rhode Island

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, for WPRI.

She is the recipient of two nominations for an Emmy award as a producer

Television producer

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Johnson graduated from the University of Nebraska with a Bachelor of Arts

Bachelor of Arts

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 in journalism

Journalism

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 and minor

Academic minor

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s in political science

Political science

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, history

History

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 and English

English language

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.

Johnson resides in New Jersey

New Jersey

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with her husband Steve, daughter Ava (born May 2002), and son Burke (born March 2007).

External links

• Kristine Johnson Biography at wcbstv.com
• WCBS-TV in NY taps Fil-Am anchor for its flagship nightly news, carouselpinoy.com