Jamie Yuccas has been named a Correspondent for CBS Newspath, the Network’s 24-hour television newsgathering service for CBS stations and broadcasters around the world. She will be based in New York. The appointment is effective immediately.

        Yuccas joins CBS Newspath from WCCO-TV, the CBS owned and operated station in Minneapolis where she had been a morning anchor and general assignment reporter since 2011. While there, she won two Emmy Awards and contributed reporting to the CBS EVENING NEWS WITH SCOTT PELLEY and CBS THIS MORNING for breaking news stories in the Midwest, including flooding in Minot, N.D.; the Minnesota state government shutdown; and winter weather and flooding across the region. She also won an Emmy Award for coverage of Hurricane Sandy in 2012.

        Previously, Yuccas was an anchor, reporter and producer at WBBH-TV in Fort Myers, Fla. (2004-2011). She won a Florida Associated Press award for a feature story about a U.S. marshals operation. She began her career in at KTTC-TV in Rochester, Minn. (2003-2004).

        Yuccas graduated from the University of Minnesota with a bachelor’s degree in journalism.

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