National career Paula Zahn

1 national career

1.1 abc
1.2 cbs
1.3 fox news channel
1.4 cnn
1.5 wnet
1.6 investigation discovery

national career
abc

in 1987, zahn accepted offer work @ abc news, anchoring health show, weekend program on health , medical issues. within few months co-anchoring world news morning, network s morning newscast, , anchoring news segments on morning america substituting co-host joan lunden.

cbs

in 1990, zahn offered job @ cbs news, took beginning on february 26, 1990, co-anchoring cbs morning harry smith. during time, helped cover 1992 winter olympics in albertville, france tim mccarver , 1994 winter olympics in lillehammer, norway, covering waco siege. both , smith left after changes made @ morning show in 1996 last day being on june 14, 1996. zahn went on work anchor of saturday edition of cbs evening news, substituting dan rather during week, , contributing reports 48 hours, public eye bryant gumbel, , cbs news sunday morning.

fox news channel

in 1999, after 9 years @ cbs news, zahn moved world of cable news, joining fox news channel (fnc), anchored fox report, network s nightly newscast. months later, helped launch own prime time news program, edge paula zahn. 2 years later, fnc discovered in negotiations cnn on possible move there , fired alleged breach of contract. suit fnc filed against agent subsequently thrown out new york state supreme court judge.

cnn

zahn began work @ cnn on september 11, 2001, joining anchor aaron brown in coverage of day s terrorist attacks reaction events witnessed. although not scheduled appear on cnn program, still in development, began regular morning news shift next day. january, launched cnn morning news program, american morning paula zahn.

zahn in 2002

in 2003, during iraq war, zahn moved prime time, hosting two-hour program labeled live headlines offered continuing coverage of war , other events. anderson cooper took on first of 2 hours summer, , september, show, paula zahn now, premiered.

on july 24, 2007, announced resignation cnn. final broadcast of paula zahn aired august 2, 2007. announcement came less day after cnn hired campbell brown, former co-host of weekend today. initially, guest hosts continued zahn s program under title out in open. later replaced election campaign coverage , brown s program, campbell brown: no bias, no bull.

according zahn s goodbye letter penned cnn staff, stated plan take break between jobs , catch breath before take on next role. in new york times interview, conducted right after announcement of resignation broke, zahn told jacques steinberg had no idea doing next .

wnet

on november 9, 2008, zahn became new co-host of sundayarts on new york city pbs stations wnet , wliw. program, covers fine arts scene in new york city, called nyc-arts , airs thursday evenings.

investigation discovery

on january 9, 2009, discovery communications announced zahn, along producing partners scott weinberger , scott sternberg, had entered development deal true crime documentary series. on case paula zahn premiered october 18, 2009 on investigation discovery cable channel.