Danya Bacchus is a CBS Newspath LA based correspondent since July 2019. Prior to joining Newspath she worked as a freelance correspondent for NewsOne, ABC’s affiliate news service. She was also a freelance reporter and fill-in anchor for LA’s Fox affiliate, KTTV. Danya has covered stories across the western United States including the Texas church massacre, Oakland’s massive warehouse fire, Moonlight’s memorable Oscar win and Kobe Bryant’s death. Her previous job stops include San Diego, Memphis and Salisbury, MD. In 2015, Danya was one of 19 journalists selected from around the world to complete the prestigious Knight-Wallace Fellowship at the University of Michigan. She is member of the National Association of Black Journalists and a proud graduate of North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University.

Cristian Benavides is a CBS Newspath correspondent based in Miami. This marks the first time Newspath has had a correspondent based in Miami. Cristian is an Emmy award-winning journalist with an extensive career in TV news. Prior to joining us, he made stops in Tampa, DC, Phoenix, New York City, and then landed back in Florida, where he covered the Surfside collapse, Hurricane Ida and the disappearance of Gabby Petito. Most recently he reported on the Uvalde school shooting, providing coverage for WTVJ and NBC affiliates. Cristian has a Masters of Science from Columbia Graduate School of Journalism, and a communications degree from the University of Miami. Cristian Benavides just married his wife this past July, is a foodie, loves to travel and is the proud parent to a Jack Russell Terrier mix.

Bradley Blackburn is a correspondent with CBS Newspath.  Since joining CBS, he has covered the impact of Hurricane Ida in the Northeast and reported live from the World Trade Center site for the 20th Anniversary of 9/11. Previously, Bradley was a reporter and multimedia journalist with WFAA-TV in Dallas, Texas where his work on climate change won a prestigious duPont-Columbia award.  He was on the ground in the hours after the Dallas Police Ambush and also reported on the reunion of immigrant families at the U.S.-Mexico border. Bradley began his career at ABC News, where he traveled across the country producing for World News Tonight.  He also helped launch the Fusion cable network, a Miami-based network from ABC and Univision. Bradley is a native Texan and a graduate of Columbia University.  He lives in New York with his wife and young daughter.

Natalie Brand is a correspondent for CBS Newspath based in Washington, DC. She started with the network in December 2018.Prior to joining Newspath, she served as the political reporter for KING 5 in Seattle, covering local, state and national politics. Natalie won a regional Emmy award for her reporting in 2016, provided comprehensive campaign coverage for several election cycles and co-moderated a gubernatorial, congressional and two mayoral debates. She has also reported in Phoenix, Arizona, Portland, Oregon and Palm Springs, California, winning a regional Edward R. Murrow, Golden Mike, and APTRA awards for breaking news coverage. Natalie started her career as a writer and associate producer at the CBS affiliate in San Diego, relying on Newspath material to help produce shows. She holds a Master of Public Administration from the Harvard Kennedy School, and graduated from University of California, San Diego with highest distinction from the Communications Department.

Michael George joined CBS Newspath as a correspondent based in New York City in January 2020. Michael previously worked as a reporter for WNBC In New York, where he received two New York Emmys for his coverage of the mass shooting at Bronx-Lebanon Hospital. He also worked as an investigative reporter at WFTS in Tampa, Florida, earning two Suncoast Emmys for investigative and education reporting. Michael has also worked in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and Bismarck, North Dakota, and has covered several major national stories, including the 2020 Iowa caucuses, 2016 election night at President-Elect Trump’s campaign headquarters, and the Black Lives Matter protests. He hails from Palm Springs, California and graduated from the University of Southern California with a degree in political science. The son of immigrants, Michael is also an active member of the Asian American Journalists Association.

Jarred Hill comes to us from Hearst Television in Washington, DC where he reported on the Supreme Court’s historic abortion decision, the January 6th hearings and the 2020 presidential election. Jarred also has experience covering the impacts of severe weather, including Hurricane Ida’s landfall in Louisiana, as well as multiple storms during his stint as a correspondent in Greensboro, North Carolina - reporting not only on the destruction but on the determination of communities to rebuild.

When Jarred is not chasing down stories, he reports that you’ll probably find him at the gym or doing karaoke. He love musicals, in fact, he hosted a short-lived CBS web series interviewing musical acts for David Letterman.

Tina joined CBS News in New York in 2001.  She covered major national stories including the aftermath of 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans.  Tina worked overseas in Kuwait and Baghdad reporting on the invasion of Iraq and the Gulf War that followed.  She was in Israel and the West Bank for coverage of the death of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. In 2005, Tina moved to London to open and manage Newspath’s first overseas bureau where she also serves as Senior Producer.  She has reported from the Vatican on the death of Pope John Paul II and covered  two Papal elections.  She’s covered terror attacks and breaking news throughout Europe,  Israel, Syria and across the Middle East.   Tina reported from South Africa on the death of Nelson Mandela in 2013. Tina and her team have covered Olympic Games in Torino, Beijing, London and Sochi, Russia along with every major British royal event in the last decade including the royal weddings of Prince William and Kate Middleton and Prince Harry and Meghan Markle. Before joining CBS, Tina was a reporter and anchor at WRNN-TV. She began her career in her home state of Idaho as a one-man-band for the CBS affiliate in Twin Falls.

Wendy Gillette is a freelance correspondent based in New York City. She is a familiar face to affiliates after joining Newspath in 2006. She reported for WCBS before then, and also made stops as a reporter and anchor at the CBS stations in Cleveland, OH and Tucson, AZ, and the ABC affiliates in Portland, Maine and Great Falls, Montana. She has freelanced for ABC Newsone, NBC Newschannel, as a business anchor at the NYSE for NY1 and affiliated stations, and FiOS1 News as a news anchor. She has also filled in as an anchor on CBS Morning News, and launched MoneyWatch morning live shots from the NYSE several years ago. Wendy has traveled to nearly 50 countries and has reported stories for Newspath from Vietnam, the Seychelles, South Africa, Alaska and Iceland. She grew up in East Brunswick, New Jersey, attended Rutgers University and earned her master’s degree in broadcast journalism at Boston University.

Naomi Ruchim joined CBS Newspath in October 2019 as a freelance correspondent. During her time at CBS, Naomi has covered several large national stories including the Harvey Weinstein Trial and the indictment of Former President Donald Trump. Prior to her work at CBS, Naomi worked as an evening anchor at KMSP in Minneapolis/St. Paul where she launched a new primetime newscast. Naomi began her career as a reporter at local stations in Montana, Kansas and Arizona. While in Tucson, Naomi was one of the first reporters on the scene when Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords was shot outside a grocery store. Naomi also had the honor and privilege of working as a reporter and anchor at WTHR in her hometown of Indianapolis, where she received a regional Emmy Award for her reporting. Naomi graduated from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University with a degree in Journalism and International Studies. Her work has also been featured on CBS Mornings, CBS Weekend News and CBS News Streaming.