Claudia Lynn Cowan (born July 31, 1963) is a news reporter for

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Early life and education

Cowan is the daughter of actress

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(who also attended UC Santa Barbara) and publicist Warren Cowan, co-founder of Rogers & Cowan, a worldwide public relations firm. She attended the

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prior to graduating from the

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. Cowan’s father married Barbara Crane Gilbert Abeles Udko in 1995 and they remained married until his death in 2008. He was her fourth husband. Barbara Crane was the daughter of ''The Honeymooners'' comedy writer Harry Crane and along with her first husband actor Paul Gilbert, adopted Melissa and Jonathan Gilbert of ''Little House on the Prairie'' fame. She is also the mother of actress Sara Gilbert with Harold Abeles, but Sara adopted the family’s famous acting surname. At age 32, Claudia became a stepsister to Melissa, Jonathan and Sara Gilbert.

Career

She began her career at KTTV-TV (FOX) in

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, where she worked her way up from being a messenger to an on-air reporter. She then moved to KMST-TV in

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as a desk assistant, and worked her way up to reporter, anchor of the noon news, then co-anchor of the weekend evening news where she also spent time producing and editing. From there, she spent seven years at

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13 (CBS) in

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, covering breaking news and state politics, and anchoring the morning and midday newscasts. In 1995, she moved to KRON-4 (NBC) in

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to report for the evening news. In April 1998, she was hired by the newly launched

, as their Bay Area correspondent. While reporting on the 2014 Isla Vista shootings on a May 26, 2014 Fox News newscast, she says she went to UCSB where the shootings occurred.

Personal life

Cowan was previously married to sports agent Steve Baker and has twin children.

References

External links

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Fox News Channel biography
{{DEFAULTSORT:Cowan, Claudia Living people University of California, Santa Barbara alumni University of California, Los Angeles alumni Fox News people American women television journalists Jewish American journalists Place of birth missing (living people) People from Mill Valley, California 21st-century American Jews 1963 births 21st-century American women