Staff
Danya Bacchus is a CBS Newspath LA based correspondent since July 2019. Prior to joining Newspath she worked as a freelance correspondent for NewsOne, ABC’s affiliate news service. She was also a freelance reporter and fill-in anchor for LA’s Fox affiliate, KTTV. Danya has covered stories across the western United States including the Texas church massacre, Oakland’s massive warehouse fire, Moonlight’s memorable Oscar win and Kobe Bryant’s death. Her previous job stops include San Diego, Memphis and Salisbury, MD. In 2015, Danya was one of 19 journalists selected from around the world to complete the prestigious Knight-Wallace Fellowship at the University of Michigan. She is member of the National Association of Black Journalists and a proud graduate of North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University.
Bradley Blackburn is a correspondent with CBS Newspath. Since joining CBS, he has covered the impact of Hurricane Ida in the Northeast and reported live from the World Trade Center site for the 20th Anniversary of 9/11.
Previously, Bradley was a reporter and multimedia journalist with WFAA-TV in Dallas, Texas where his work on climate change won a prestigious duPont-Columbia award. He was on the ground in the hours after the Dallas Police Ambush and also reported on the reunion of immigrant families at the U.S.-Mexico border.
Bradley began his career at ABC News, where he traveled across the country producing for World News Tonight. He also helped launch the Fusion cable network, a Miami-based network from ABC and Univision.
Bradley is a native Texan and a graduate of Columbia University. He lives in New York with his wife and young daughter.
Natalie Brand is a correspondent for CBS Newspath based in Washington, DC. She started with the network in December 2018.Prior to joining Newspath, she served as the political reporter for KING 5 in Seattle, covering local, state and national politics. Natalie won a regional Emmy award for her reporting in 2016, provided comprehensive campaign coverage for several election cycles and co-moderated a gubernatorial, congressional and two mayoral debates. She has also reported in Phoenix, Arizona, Portland, Oregon and Palm Springs, California, winning a regional Edward R. Murrow, Golden Mike, and APTRA awards for breaking news coverage. Natalie started her career as a writer and associate producer at the CBS affiliate in San Diego, relying on Newspath material to help produce shows. She holds a Master of Public Administration from the Harvard Kennedy School, and graduated from University of California, San Diego with highest distinction from the Communications Department.
Michael George joined CBS Newspath as a correspondent based in New York City in January 2020. Michael previously worked as a reporter for WNBC In New York, where he received two New York Emmys for his coverage of the mass shooting at Bronx-Lebanon Hospital. He also worked as an investigative reporter at WFTS in Tampa, Florida, earning two Suncoast Emmys for investigative and education reporting. Michael has also worked in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and Bismarck, North Dakota, and has covered several major national stories, including the 2020 Iowa caucuses, 2016 election night at President-Elect Trump’s campaign headquarters, and the Black Lives Matter protests. He hails from Palm Springs, California and graduated from the University of Southern California with a degree in political science. The son of immigrants, Michael is also an active member of the Asian American Journalists Association.
Skyler Henry joined CBS Newspath in November 2019 as one our DC national correspondents. He comes to CBS News from WMAR-TV in Baltimore, Maryland where he served as an investigative reporter and anchor since 2016. During his time in Baltimore, Skyler covered unsolved cases, teaming up with local law enforcement agencies and helping get to the bottom of several high-profile cases. He was one of the first on air during the tragic shootings at the Capital Gazette newspaper in 2018 in Maryland as well as the work place shooting in Harford County. Prior to WMAR, Skyler had stops at WMGT in Macon, GA and WSB in Atlanta, GA.
Skyler graduated from Georgia Southern University. He is a member of the National Association of Black Journalists and the National Press Photography Association. Skyler is a native of Stone Mountain, GA.
Jarred Hill comes to us from Hearst Television in Washington, DC where he reported on the Supreme Court’s historic abortion decision, the January 6th hearings and the 2020 presidential election. Jarred also has experience covering the impacts of severe weather, including Hurricane Ida’s landfall in Louisiana, as well as multiple storms during his stint as a correspondent in Greensboro, North Carolina - reporting not only on the destruction but on the determination of communities to rebuild.
When Jarred is not chasing down stories, he reports that you’ll probably find him at the gym or doing karaoke. He love musicals, in fact, he hosted a short-lived CBS web series interviewing musical acts for David Letterman.
Shanelle Kaul joined CBS News from Canada, where she reported and anchored for the country’s #1 breaking news channel, CP24. During her more than decade in the field, Shanelle covered elections across the country, ravaging wildfires in Alberta, and the Freedom Convoy protests in Ottawa.
She also anchored network programs including CTV News Channel, CTV’s national morning show Your Morning, and guest-hosted CTV’s national talk show The Social.
In 2021, Shanelle returned to her alma mater, Toronto Metropolitan University, to teach news production to journalism students.
Born in Sri Lanka, she is deeply passionate about human rights and social justice issues – and has worked with several South Asian organizations to share stories of cultural identity and heritage.
Tina joined CBS News in New York in 2001. She covered major national stories including the aftermath of 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans. Tina worked overseas in Kuwait and Baghdad reporting on the invasion of Iraq and the Gulf War that followed. She was in Israel and the West Bank for coverage of the death of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
In 2005, Tina moved to London to open and manage Newspath’s first overseas bureau where she also serves as Senior Producer. She has reported from the Vatican on the death of Pope John Paul II and covered two Papal elections. She’s covered terror attacks and breaking news throughout Europe, Israel, Syria and across the Middle East. Tina reported from South Africa on the death of Nelson Mandela in 2013.
Tina and her team have covered Olympic Games in Torino, Beijing, London and Sochi, Russia along with every major British royal event in the last decade including the royal weddings of Prince William and Kate Middleton and Prince Harry and Meghan Markle.
Before joining CBS, Tina was a reporter and anchor at WRNN-TV. She began her career in her home state of Idaho as a one-man-band for the CBS affiliate in Twin Falls.
Ian Lee is a CBS News correspondent based in London, where he reports for CBS News, CBS Newspath and CBSN. Lee, who joined CBS News in March 2019, is a multi-award-winning journalist, whose work covering major international stories has earned him some of journalism’s top honors, including an Emmy, Peabody and the Investigative Reporters and Editors’ Tom Renner award.
Lee has reported extensively across the Middle East, Europe and East Asia. Prior to CBS, he was a correspondent for CNN based in Jerusalem. Lee joined CNN in 2011 while living in Egypt, where he covered the country’s uprising and subsequent 2013 coup. He also reported on the civil wars in Syria and Libya, covering both sides of those conflicts. In 2011, he was injured as rebels battled for control of Sirte, the last stronghold of Libyan leader Muammar Al Gaddafi, when an RPG exploded next to him, killing a nearby paramedic.
Freelance
Wendy Gillette is a freelance correspondent based in New York City. She is a familiar face to affiliates after joining Newspath in 2006. She reported for WCBS before then, and also made stops as a reporter and anchor at the CBS stations in Cleveland, OH and Tucson, AZ, and the ABC affiliates in Portland, Maine and Great Falls, Montana. She has freelanced for ABC Newsone, NBC Newschannel, as a business anchor at the NYSE for NY1 and affiliated stations, and FiOS1 News as a news anchor. She has also filled in as an anchor on CBS Morning News, and launched MoneyWatch morning live shots from the NYSE several years ago. Wendy has traveled to nearly 50 countries and has reported stories for Newspath from Vietnam, the Seychelles, South Africa, Alaska and Iceland. She grew up in East Brunswick, New Jersey, attended Rutgers University and earned her master’s degree in broadcast journalism at Boston University.
Willie James Inman is a White House reporter for CBS News based in Washington, DC. Prior to joining CBS News in December 2023, he worked as a White House correspondent for Scripps News. During his time there, he covered the Biden and Trump administrations and major stories including the Supreme Court's Dobbs decision, President Trump's impeachment proceedings, the Trump 2020 campaign and the 2020 Democratic Party presidential primary. Previously, Willie previously worked as a multimedia reporter for Fox News based in Jackson, Mississippi where he covered the Alabama U.S. Senate special election, Hurricanes Irma and Florence, and Barbara Bush's funeral. He has also worked as a local reporter in Montgomery County, Maryland. Willie began his career in Washington, D.C. as a White House producer for Japanese public broadcaster NHK. Before starting his career in news, Willie was an English teacher in Japan for three years. He is a graduate of Georgia State University in Atlanta where he studied journalism and theater. He also studied Japanese and international relations at Ritsumeikan University in Kyoto, Japan.
Astrid Martinez is an Emmy Award winning freelance correspondent for CBS News since 2022. Prior to joining Newspath, she was a correspondent for BNC based in Philadelphia. She also anchored and reported for 5 years at the CBS affiliate in Atlanta covering the COVID pandemic and its impact on communities of color, the 2020 presidential election and the events leading up to January 6th. Astrid created a partnership with the Atlanta Braves reporting for Spanish speaking fans. For two years in a row, the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce named Astrid one of the 50 Most Influential Latinos in Georgia. Astrid also made stops in KXAS, WBTV and KGBT. Astrid has covered immigration and border issues, as well as human trafficking and violence along the border Texas Mexico border.
Naomi Ruchim joined CBS Newspath in October 2019 as a freelance correspondent. During her time at CBS, Naomi has covered several large national stories including the Harvey Weinstein Trial and the indictment of Former President Donald Trump.
Prior to her work at CBS, Naomi worked as an evening anchor at KMSP in Minneapolis/St. Paul where she launched a new primetime newscast. Naomi began her career as a reporter at local stations in Montana, Kansas and Arizona. While in Tucson, Naomi was one of the first reporters on the scene when Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords was shot outside a grocery store. Naomi also had the honor and privilege of working as a reporter and anchor at WTHR in her hometown of Indianapolis, where she received a regional Emmy Award for her reporting.
Naomi graduated from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University with a degree in Journalism and International Studies. Her work has also been featured on CBS Mornings, CBS Weekend News and CBS News Streaming.
Nicole Sganga is CBS News’ Homeland Security and Justice reporter. Throughout her career, Sganga has reported on some of Washington’s most-high profile stories, including the Manafort trials, the Mueller investigation, and the March for our Lives.
As a reporter covering homeland security and justice, Sganga has documented conditions at immigration processing centers at the U.S.-Mexico border, embedded U.S. Coast Guard rescue missions in the Florida Straits and reported from outside the U.S. Capitol during the January 6th insurrection. She has helped lead CBS News investigations into the U.S. Secret Service’s missing text messages, law enforcement’s systemic failures in responding to the Uvalde shooting and the rise of fentanyl trafficking into the United States.
Sganga has meticulously tracked federal hate crimes and domestic violent extremism. She reported from inside the court during the civil trial for the Charlottesville "Unite the Right" rally that condemned two-dozen white supremacists and neo-Nazi organizations.
As a campaign reporter for CBS News, Sganga embedded with the re-election campaign of former President Trump in 2020 and filed on-the-ground reporting from more than three dozen rallies. While covering the 2020 New Hampshire primary, Sganga interviewed more than 20 candidates and countless voters on issues ranging from health care to immigration to voting rights.
Sganga’s passion for uncovering the truth has led her to ground zero of some of the nation’s greatest tragedies and natural disasters. As a digital journalist first starting out at CBS News, Sganga traveled to more than two dozen states and territories to report on breaking news events including Hurricane Florence, Hurricane Maria, the Las Vegas shooting, the Capitol Gazette shooting, the Sutherland Springs shooting and more. As a fellow for the New York Times, she filed columns detailing the lack of health care and education inside Rohingya internment camps in western Myanmar.
Sganga is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame and earned her LLM in International Human Rights Law at Oxford University.