Victoria Corderi (born 1957) is an American journalist and recipient of three national news

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and a George Foster Peabody Award for Excellence in Journalism. She is also a 1997 recipient of the Edward R. Murrow Award for

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Early life

Corderi is a graduate of St. Bonaventure University with a

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in journalism. She is married and has four children.

Career

Corderi was a reporter with ''

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'', a defunct afternoon newspaper. She then began as a reporter for

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-TV in Miami in 1982. Corderi covered the 1985 8.0 magnitude

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in Chile for CBS News. At CBS, she served as a correspondent for the

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s ''48 Hours'' and ''Street Stories'' and as

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for the ''

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'', as well as anchoring ''CBS Newsbreaks'' in between programming. In September 1992, Corderi was hired by

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. She was brought in to be the co-anchor for the station's freshly launched midday ''Eyewitness News'' broadcast alongside morning co-anchor and future Fox News contributor E.D. Hill and to serve as a reporter for other newscasts. Corderi's tenure there was a short one, as she was only at WABC for eighteen months. Corderi was employed at

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starting in 1994 as a correspondent for ''

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''. Corderi is a recipient of the Las Primeras Award for being one of the first Hispanic network anchors. She is listed in ''Who's Who Among Hispanic Americans''. She is also a recipient of the Gerald Loeb Award bestowed by the

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References

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