Fredricka Whitfield

Fredricka Whitfield is an anchor for CNN/U.S. She is based in the network's world headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia. Whitfield anchors the weekend edition of CNN Newsroom. She joined CNN in 2002. Prior to CNN, Whitfield was a correspondent for NBC News and served as an Atlanta-based correspondent for NBC Nightly News, The Today Show and Dateline NBC. Before her time at NBC, Whitfield was a reporter and anchor at WPLG-TV in Miami, an evening anchor for News Channel 8 in Washington, D.C., and a general assignment reporter at KTVT-TV in Dallas as well as at WTNH in New Haven, Conn. She began her professional career as a reporter and morning anchor for WCIV in Charleston, S.C. Whitfield earned a bachelor's degree in journalism from Howard University.