Priya David Clemens (born December 23, 1974) is an American journalist based in

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Early life and education

Clemens was born Priya David in Madras (now

Chennai Chennai (, ), formerly known as Madras ( the official name until 1996), is the capital city of Tamil Nadu, the southernmost Indian state. The largest city of the state in area and population, Chennai is located on the Coromandel Coast of th ...

), India. She grew up in Virginia, California, Brussels and London, where her father worked for an American company that worked with

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. Clemens was graduated with honors from

Westmont College Westmont College is a private Christian liberal arts college in Montecito, California. It was founded in 1937. History Ruth Kerr, owner and CEO of the Kerr Glass Manufacturing Company, established the school as the Bible Missionary Institute in ...

in 1997 with a bachelor's degree in anthropology and with a master's degree in broadcast journalism from

University of Southern California , mottoeng = "Let whoever earns the palm bear it" , religious_affiliation = Nonsectarian—historically Methodist , established = , accreditation = WSCUC , type = Private research university , academic_affiliations = , endowment = $8.1 ...

in 2002.

Career

Clemens is the host o
KQED Newsroom
Most recently, she was the spokesperson for th
Golden Gate Bridge District
handling communications, media and policy for the Golden Gate Bridge, Golden Gate Ferry, and Golden Gate Transit bus system. Clemens has worked as a CBS News correspondent based in

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, reporting for the ''

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'' and for ''

The Early Show ''The Early Show'' is an American morning television show that aired on CBS from November 1, 1999 to January 7, 2012, and the ninth attempt at a morning news-talk program by the network since 1954. The program aired Monday through Friday from ...

'', and filling in as an occasional Saturday and Sunday CBS Evening News anchor. In 2008 and 2009. during the international sub-prime crisis, Clemens regularly reported on financial issues from the floor of the

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. She has also worked for

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in the San Francisco Bay Area as a reporter for Mornings on 2 and other news shows, and for MSNBC as an embedded presidential campaign reporter in 2004 - covering Dick Gephardt's presidential campaign and Dick Cheney's re-election bid, as well. She also worked as an anchor for

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, the CBS affiliate in Portland, Oregon. She hosted Keep It Local, a daily, hour-long news show shot live at various locations in Oregon, and filled in as an anchor on

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's various news shows.

Personal life

In September, 2011, she and her family were subjected to an armed raid of their

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home, by the Martinez Police Department, the

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, and the

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Police Department. The law enforcement officials had a search warrant for the previous owners of the home, who had moved out nearly three months earlier when David and her husband purchased the home.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:David, Priya 1974 births Living people Westmont College alumni Writers from Chennai American television reporters and correspondents American writers of Indian descent USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism alumni American expatriates in Belgium Indian emigrants to the United States American expatriates in the United Kingdom American women television journalists CBS News people 21st-century American women