DANYA BACCHUS JOINS CBS NEWS NEWSPATH AS A LOS ANGELES-BASED CORRESPONDENT

DANYA BACCHUS JOINS CBS NEWS NEWSPATH AS A LOS ANGELES-BASED CORRESPONDENT

Danya Bacchus is joining CBS News Newspath as a Los Angeles-based correspondent, it was announced today. Bacchus will provide original reporting for the Network’s 24-hour newsgathering service for CBS affiliates and broadcasters around the globe.

Bacchus joins CBS News after spending the past three years as a freelance correspondent for ABC News in Los Angeles, where she’s reported on a wide range of national stories, including the college admissions scandal, a hostage standoff at a Los Angeles Trader Joe’s supermarket, and the case of a California couple who kept their 13 children shackled in their home.

During the past three years, she’s also served as a freelance reporter and substitute anchor for KTTV-TV in Los Angeles.

Before moving to Los Angeles, from 2011 until 2016, Bacchus was a reporter and weekend anchor for KNSD-TV in San Diego, Calif. She anchored the outlet’s 6:00 PM and 11:00 PM newscasts, developed story ideas and actively reported on social media.

From 2008 until 2011, Bacchus was a reporter and fill-in anchor at CBS affiliate WREG-TV in Memphis. Before that, she was a reporter, producer and weekend news anchor at WMDT-TV in Salisbury, Md.

Bacchus got her start in broadcasting as an assignment editor and field producer at WXLV-TV in Greensboro/Winston-Salem, N.C. She also worked as a production assistant at BET and a writer for TV One.

Bacchus in 2016 completed a prestigious eight-month Knight-Wallace Fellowship at the University of Michigan. The program is named after the Knight Foundation and the late, legendary 60 MINUTES correspondent Mike Wallace. Each of the 18 to 20 participants each year are required to complete a research project. Bacchus’ research was titled “Leaderless Movements: The Rise of Digital Activism.”

She is a past president of the San Diego Association of Black Journalists and a member of the National Association of Black Journalists.

Bacchus earned a Bachelor of Science in journalism and mass communication from the North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University.