Adriana Diaz Biography
Adriana Diaz is an American journalist working as the CBS News national correspondent stationed in Chicago and the host of the “CBS Weekend News” on Saturdays, which is broadcast from CBS News’ Chicago Bureau, which is housed at WBBM-TV, which is owned and run by CBS.
Adriana Diaz Age
Diaz is 38 years old as of 2022. She was born Adriana Sabrina Diaz in 1984 in Bronx, New York, United States.
Adriana Diaz Family
Diaz’s family is Dominican, and she is fluent in Spanish, French, and Mandarin. She has not shared any information regarding her loving parents as of now, 2022. Nonetheless, we will update the site as soon as we get more intel from our trusted sources of information as soon as possible.
Adriana Diaz Husband
Diaz is married to Bryan Smith, a cardiologist at the University of Chicago Medical Center. The couple met during a rooftop barbecue hosted by his younger sister in downtown Chicago. In June 2020, they will marry at the Chicago Botanic Garden, just north of the city, in a “hidden garden” sanctuary near to home.
Adriana Diaz Education
Diaz majored in public and international affairs at Princeton University. In a dual degree program at Columbia University and France’s Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris, she received a master’s degree in public affairs and public administration (Science Po). Diaz attended Stuyvesant High School in New York City. She also serves on the board of the Harmony Program, which gives music education to underserved New York City students.
Adriana Diaz Miss USA
She was crowned Miss New York Teen USA 2003 at the age of seventeen. Miss Teen USA 2003 was held in Palm Springs, California, and she competed there. Tami Farrell was the winner of the pageant. Diaz has crowned Miss New York USA in 2006 in a state pageant that took place in late 2005. On April 21, 2006, she competed for the title of Miss USA in Baltimore, Maryland. Miss Kentucky, Tara Conner, won the pageant.
Adriana Diaz Salary
Diaz earns an annual salary of $100 thousand.
Adriana Diaz Net Worth
Diaz has an estimated net worth of $1.5 Million.
Adriana Diaz Career
Diaz became a member of the network in 2012. She recently reported from the COVID-19 wards of Wisconsin’s largest hospital, where she interviewed patients and frontline employees. She and her colleagues have also written about how the pandemic has disproportionately affected minorities. Diaz has covered Chicago gun violence, the Flint water crisis, and the caravans of migrants making their way to the United States on foot from Mexico. Diaz was part of the CBS News crew that won an Emmy for “39 Days,” a primetime documentary on the Parkland student movement, and spent a month documenting the school tragedy in Parkland, Florida.
She was also a member of the network team that received an Alfred I. DuPont-Columbia University Award for outstanding breaking news coverage of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Newtown, Connecticut.
Diaz was formerly based in Beijing as a CBS News Asia correspondent, where she used her Mandarin abilities to report from China on US-China relations, Chinese politics, science, and culture. Diaz reported twice from within North Korea, capturing the country’s political pomp and circumstance as well as its isolation. She also traveled to the Korean Demilitarized Zone, South Korea, Japan, and Laos as part of her Asia assignments.
Diaz covered Pope Francis’ travels to Brazil in 2013, Israel and Palestine in 2014, Cuba in 2015, and Mexico in 2016 as a CBS Newspath correspondent. She was part of the first crew despatched to Havana in December 2014 to cover the 2014 Winter Olympic Games in Sochi, Russia, as part of the restoration of relations with the United States. Diaz formerly worked for Channel One News and hosted Yahoo’s “Trending Now” web show before joining CBS News. Diaz worked at Goldman Sachs as a financial analyst prior to becoming a journalist.
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