Tanya Rivero has been a news anchor for CBS News since 2017. Previously, she was the host of ''Lunch Break with Tanya Rivero'' on

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Live between April 2014 and 2017. Until August 2013, she was anchor for

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. Other work for ABC included hosting Good Morning America Health. She has filed reports for has been Good Morning America, Nightline,

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, Weekend World News with David Muir and anchored

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and

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. Before joining

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News in October 2007, she was a reporter and fill-in anchor for

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(CBS 2) in

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, the flagship station of

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. She joined WCBS-TV in July 2005 after working for News 12 The Bronx and

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since June 2004. Before joining

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, she worked at NY1 News as a newswriter. During college, she worked at

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as a desk assistant. She is a graduate of

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and the

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Personal life

Rivero grew up in New York City, New York where she learned to speak

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from her Cuban mother. She attended Manhattan's Professional Children's School and danced professionally with the

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under the name Tanya Gingerich. She started using the name Tanya Rivero professionally after attending journalism school. It is the surname of her Cuban maternal grandmother. She is married and has two sons.ABC World News Now, broadcast airdate Friday August 26, 2011

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