Cecilia Vega
Birth Name:
Cecilia Vega
Profession
Actress
Fast Facts
- Has received awards for her reporting from the California Newspaper Publishers Association, the East Bay Press Club, the Hearst Corporation and the New York Times
- As a print reporter for the San Francisco Chronicle, she broke a number of stories about the administration of then Mayor Gavin Newsom
- Has covered a story about Pippa Middleton in Paris and traveled to the White House since joining ABC News in 2011
- Has covered such stories as Whitney Houston's death, the Occupy Wall Street protests and the movie theater shooting in Aurora, Colo
- While working for KGO-TV in San Francisco, she held an award-winning interview with a witness to an attack on a high school girl at a homecoming dance
- Became a Los Angeles based correspondent for ABC news, a position that encompasses contribution to all of the station's news platforms
- Has traveled in a submarine in the middle of the Arctic and gone to Mexico to pet whales
Awards
- 2019Daytime Emmy - Outstanding Morning Program:Nominated
- 2019Emmy - Outstanding Coverage of a Breaking News Story in a News Magazine:Nominated
- 2026WGA Award (TV) - News Script – Analysis, Feature, or Commentary:Nominated