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Soledad , Randall Pinkston , Jed Duvall

 Biographies 

 NATIONAL CONTRIBUTING CORRESPONDENTS

SOLEDAD O'BRIEN

Anchor for MSNBC's "The Site"

Soledad O'Brien has produced science/medical stories for NBC Nightly News and NBC's Today Show. She currently anchors MSNBC's The Site, the first daily hour-long television show devoted to technology. She has served as a general assignment reporter for KRON-TV, the NBC affiliate in San Francisco, and was named East Bay Bureau Chief in 1996. Ms. O'Brien co-hosted The Discovery Channel's KnowZone in 1994 and 1995 and won a Nor-Cal Emmy Award for Outstanding Achievement for that program. She began her career at NBC affiliate WBZ-TV as a writer and producer.

JED DUVALL

Contributing Correspondent for Fox News

Jed Duvall is a freelance broadcast news correspondent, producer, editor and writer with 34 years experience in network and local television and radio, including foreign and domestic hard news and feature coverage. Duvall worked as Nightline correspondent and Morning News anchor for ABC News in Washington from 1983 to 1991. During his tenure at CBS News from 1967 to 1982, Duvall served as a correspondent in Saigon, Atlanta, and Washington, worked as the "cover story" correspondent on Sunday Morning, and covered the White House during the Carter and Reagan presidencies. He worked as a freelance correspondent for CNN from 1994 to 1995. Mr. Duvall has previously worked with George Rivera as writer, reporter and host of Sticks 'n Stones, a documentary on conflict resolution and mediation. He began his career as a news director, producer, and reporter at WBAL-TV in Baltimore.

RANDALL PINKSTON

National Correspondent for CBS News

Randall Pinkston has been a New York-based CBS News correspondent since 1994. He was honored with a 1996 Emmy Award for Outstanding Investigative Journalism for CBS Reports: Legacy of Shame, where he served as reporter with anchor Dan Rather. Prior to that, Pinkston was based in Washington D.C. and, in addition to his reporting duties, he contributed to the "Eye On America" series on the CBS Evening News. While in Washington he spent two years at the White House covering President Bush, including the President's trips to England, Spain, Greece, Turkey, Italy, the Netherlands, and the Far East. He joined CBS News in 1990, just before the start of the war in the Persian Gulf and became a familiar fixture on CBS This Morning and CBS radio reporting on the war. Before joining CBS News, Pinkston worked for 10 years at WCBS-TV in New York.

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