American journalist
Emily Frances
is a former news entertainment anchor for
WPIX
in New York City.
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Currently, she is hosting the show "TRENDING" on the International
Israeli
channel,
i24 News
.
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Early life
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Frances was born in
Malibu, California
.
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She lived in
Ecuador
and
France
as part of a
student exchange program
while in high school. Frances studied at the
University of Pennsylvania
where she majored in communications and minored in marketing. During summer breaks, she interned in the news department of KABC-TV. She spent her junior year of college abroad in Spain, and while living in
Madrid
, worked at the local television station
Canal Plus
.
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Career
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After graduating from the
University of Pennsylvania
with a degree in communications and a minor in marketing from the
Wharton School of Business
, she joined the staff at
CNN
in
Atlanta
as a production assistant, and covered the
Republican National Convention
.
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when?
]
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Frances spent almost two years at CNN before moving back to Los Angeles to join Univision's KMEX-TV, a Spanish-language TV station, an assignment editor and producer.
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At age 23, she won an
Associated Press
Award for producing a five-part series on immigration and the
Mexico?United States border
for KMEX-TV.
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She was also nominated for an Emmy Award for this series. After leaving Univision, she joined
Extra?The Entertainment Magazine
as a producer, where she helped to launch the syndicated program. The following year she joined
A Current Affair,
a syndicated news magazine, where she produced feature stories and a daily entertainment news segment for anchor
Nancy O'Dell
. She began to work for KVBC-TV, the NBC station in
Las Vegas
, where she was hired as an on-air reporter.
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Later that year she moved to
Tucson, Arizona
, as a lead reporter at KOLD-TV the CBS station. In 1999, she moved to New York to join WCBS-TV Channel 2. She left WCBS-TV in 2001 to join the CW11 Morning News as a reporter. In 2002, she was named the Entertainment Anchor for the PiX 11 Morning News. Each February, she hosts a national, live two-hour Oscar red carpet show, "Live From the Academy Awards" which won a Telly Award in 2004. In 2004, she won an Emmy for Best On-Camera Achievement: Entertainment Reporting. That same year, she was nominated for an Emmy Award for Entertainment Producing and Hosting. In 2005, "The CW11 Morning News" team was awarded an Emmy for Best Morning News Program.
She has appeared in feature films and television. She has starred as a reporter in
Maid in Manhattan
. She played a reporter in two other films,
Searching for Bobby D
and
The Narrow Gate
. She appeared as herself (an entertainment reporter) on the July 25, 2006 episode of the now defunct soap opera
All My Children
.
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List of awards
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- 2005 Emmy Award, Best Morning News Program,
The CW11 Morning News
- 2004 Emmy Award, Best On-Camera Achievement: Entertainment Reporting
- 2004 Telly Awards, "Live from the Academy Awards"
- 1994 Los Angeles Associated Press Broadcasters Award, Best Investigative Mini Documentary (KMEX-TV)
References
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