Lee Cowan Back At CBS News After four years At NBC

Lee Cowan will return to CBS News as National Correspondent, CBS News Chairman as well as an hour Executive Producer Rob Fager and David Rhodes, Leader, CBS News, introduced today. Cowan will result in CBS News broadcasts and platforms within the division and he'll be an alternate anchor for CBS SUNDAY MORNING. He'll be situated in La. His appointment is effective November 1. Lee Cowan can be a top quality reporter and one of the better storytellers within the generation of broadcast journalists, mentioned Fager. Its an authentic thrill that he's coming back the place to find us. Lee includes our persistence for original reportingto showing an excellent story, well told, mentioned Rhodes. We are so excited to own him within the fold. “With his style and class, Lee Cowan is exclusive — together with a Sunday Morning natural.” mentioned Rand Morrison, Executive Producer of CBS SUNDAY MORNING. “To condition that people’re thrilled to own him back on we is certainly an understatement.” Most recently, Cowan is really a correspondent for NBC News since 2007, contributing to numerous NBC News shows, including “NBC Nightly News with John Williams,” “Today,” and MSNBC broadcasts. While there, he covered major news tales and occasions, including presidential candidate Obama through the historic 2008 presidential election campaign as well as the tsunami that devastated Japan in March 2011. Right before joining NBC, Cowan will be a CBS News correspondent for your CBS Evening News. Because role, he reported on numerous tales of national and worldwide importance, which incorporated coverage from Ground Zero round the September 11 attacks, the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the 2006 conflict in Beirut as well as the 2006 tsunami in Indonesia. Formerly, Cowan offered just like a correspondent for CBS Newspath, CBS News 24-hour news service, he provided national and global coverage for CBS News U.S. affiliate entrepreneurs. Cowan grew to become an associate of CBS News in 1996 after just as one anchor and reporter for WLWT-TV in Cincinnati. Right before that, he was an anchor and reporter WWMT-TV, in Kalamazoo, Mich., together with a weekend anchor for KCOY-TV in Santa Maria, Calif. Before joining KCOY-TV, Cowan held positions as news director and anchor at NBC affiliate KIEM-TV Eureka, Calif. Cowan began his career in journalism in 1988 just like a investigator, first for “CBS News Nightwatch” along with the “CBS Evening News” in Washington, D.C. Born in Salt Lake City, Cowan graduated in 1988 within the College of Washington getting a double major in communications and speech communications.