Maureen Maher Biography

Fast Facts

• Earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in communications from Loyola University in 1991
• Started her career in 1991 as a morning drive news anchor for WLUW-FM Chicago
• Quote: "If I have my own experience with something, I have no problem sharing that with the people in our stories․ If I'm giving them a little piece of my story that helps them, I have no problem with that․"
• Quote: "When you're pursuing the actual factual part of the case, you have to step back and be objective․"
• Worked as a reporter for Detroit's WJBK-TV and an anchor and reporter for the CBS-owned radio station WWJ-AM from 1992 to 1995
• As a Chicago-based correspondent for CBS Newspath, she covered the impeachment of President Clinton and the crisis in Kosovo
• Reported on the fall of the Taliban in Afghanistan, the hotel bombing in Kenya and the Enron scandal in the United States
• While working as a morning anchor and reporter for WJRT-TV in Flint, Mich․, she reported on the Oklahoma City bombing and the Decker farm raid
• Worked as a Dallas-based correspondent for CBS News from 1999 to 2002
• Since she was an adopted child herself, her "48 Hours" special on an adoption scam that took children from struggling Samoan parents and gave them to American families hit particularly close to home