Meg Oliver (born December 7, 1970) is an American television correspondent and anchor. She returned to CBS News in 2015. She currently reports for ''CBS This Morning'', the ''CBS Evening News'' weekend and fills in anchoring for their 24-hour digital network by

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On CBSN she has covered extensive live breaking news from the San Bernardino shootings to the murders of WDBJ's Allison Parker and Adam Ward. In March 2006, she became anchor of the overnight CBS newscast, ''

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'' and remained in that position for three years. She was also a correspondent for ''The Early Show'', and fill in anchor. She left

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in 2009 and worked at

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News as a correspondent. She reported for ''

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'' and ''

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'' with David Muir. She also filled in anchoring on ''

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''.

Early life and education

Born in

Birmingham, Michigan Birmingham is a city in Oakland County in the U.S. state of Michigan. It is a northern suburb of Detroit located along the Woodward Corridor ( M-1). As of the 2010 census, the population was 20,103. History The area comprising what is now the c ...

in 1970. She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Journalism from the

University of Montana The University of Montana (UM) is a public research university in Missoula, Montana. UM is a flagship institution of the Montana University System and its second largest campus. UM reported 10,962 undergraduate and graduate students in the fal ...

Career

From 1993 to 1995, Oliver worked in

Kalispell, Montana Kalispell (, Montana Salish: Ql̓ispé, Kutenai language: kqayaqawakⱡuʔnam) is a city in, and the county seat of, Flathead County, Montana, United States. The 2020 census put Kalispell's population at 24,558. In Montana's northwest region, ...

as a reporter and anchor for KCFW-TV. From 1995 to 1997, she worked for

Northwest Cable News Northwest Cable News (NWCN) was an American cable news television channel owned by Tegna Media. The channel, which launched on December 18, 1995, provided 24-hour rolling news coverage focused primarily on the Pacific Northwest region of the Uni ...

at offices in

Seattle, Washington Seattle ( ) is a port, seaport city on the West Coast of the United States. It is the county seat, seat of King County, Washington, King County, Washington (state), Washington. With a 2020 population of 737,015, it is the largest city in bo ...

and

Boise, Idaho Boise (, , ) is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Idaho and is the county seat of Ada County. On the Boise River in southwestern Idaho, it is east of the Oregon border and north of the Nevada border. The downtown are ...

. From 1997 to 1998, Oliver worked as a reporter in

Hartford, Connecticut Hartford is the capital city of the U.S. state of Connecticut. It was the seat of Hartford County until Connecticut disbanded county government in 1960. It is the core city in the Greater Hartford metropolitan area. Census estimates since the ...

WTIC-TV WTIC-TV (channel 61) is a television station in Hartford, Connecticut, United States, serving the Hartford–New Haven market as an affiliate of the Fox network. It is owned by Tegna Inc. alongside Waterbury-licensed CW affiliate WCCT-TV ...

. From 1998 to 2001, she served as reporter and anchor for

WWJ-TV WWJ-TV (channel 62) is a television station in Detroit, Michigan, United States, owned and operated by the CBS television network. Under common ownership with CW affiliate WKBD-TV under the network's CBS News and Stations group, both statio ...

and

WKBD-TV WKBD-TV (channel 50) is a television station in Detroit, Michigan, United States, affiliated with The CW. It is owned by the CBS News and Stations group alongside CBS owned-and-operated station WWJ-TV (channel 62). Both stations share studios on ...

Detroit Detroit ( , ; , ) is the largest city in the U.S. state of Michigan. It is also the largest U.S. city on the United States–Canada border, and the seat of government of Wayne County. The City of Detroit had a population of 639,111 at th ...

Michigan Michigan () is a state in the Great Lakes region of the upper Midwestern United States. With a population of nearly 10.12 million and an area of nearly , Michigan is the 10th-largest state by population, the 11th-largest by area, and the ...

. From 2001 to 2004, Oliver served as weekday anchor at

KGPE-TV KGPE (channel 47) is a television station in Fresno, California, United States, affiliated with CBS. It is owned by Nexstar Media Group alongside NBC affiliate KSEE (channel 24). Both stations share studios on McKinley Avenue in eastern Fresno, ...

Fresno, California Fresno () is a major city in the San Joaquin Valley of California, United States. It is the county seat of Fresno County and the largest city in the greater Central Valley region. It covers about and had a population of 542,107 in 2020, makin ...

. Starting in May 2005, she worked in

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, as a freelance reporter for CBS Newspath. In March 2006, Oliver was named anchor of CBS News' ''

''. Oliver resides in New York with her husband and three children. During the March 20, 2009 broadcast of ''Up to the Minute'', Oliver announced it would be her last night as the anchor.The

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' ''

'' Broadcast, March 18, 2009.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Oliver, Meg 1970 births Living people People from Birmingham, Michigan American television reporters and correspondents People from Kalispell, Montana University of Montana alumni Journalists from Montana CBS News people