Fredricka Whitfield Biography

Fast Facts

• Received a 2005 Ebony award for Outstanding Women in Marketing and Communications, as well as the 2008 National Alliance of Market Developers Communicator of the Year Award
• She was named the 2002 Howard University School of Communications Alumna of the Year, as well as the George Peabody award for her live coverage of Hurricane Katrina
• Graduted from Howard University's School of Communications in 1987 with a Bachelor's Degree in Journalism
• Quote: "(On growing as a journalist) "Find a strength and build on it․ You have to take the initiative and want to be the best․ Never say I don't know how, say I can learn or ask 'what's the way that you would do it․'""
• Quote: "(On preparing for a journalism career) "Do as many internships as you can․ Knowing how to do a lot means staying power․ You have to be pliable,""
• Is best known as a CNN news anchor with the weekend edition of "CNN Newsroom․"
• As a new freshman journalism major, she waited in a campus line, purely out of curiosity, and subsequently met a speaker who would be instrumental in sparking her desire to become a journalist