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Paula Zahn's History As prepared in content by CBS    Home

She joined CBS News as co-anchor of This Morning on February 26, 1990 and served in that capacity until May 1996. She co-anchored CBS Sports' weekday morning coverage of the 1994 Olympic Winter Games in Lillehammer with This Morning co-anchor Harry Smith, and served as primetime co-host of the 1992 Olympic Winter Games in Albertville, France, with sportscaster Tim McCarver.

Zahn joined CBS News from ABC, where she served as co-anchor of World News This Morning and news segments on Good Morning America. Zahn first joined ABC News in November 1987 as anchor of The Health Show.

She had been an anchor and reporter at KCBS-TV, the CBS-owned television station in Los Angeles (1986-1987). While there, she received an Emmy award for her reporting on the mid-air collision of an Aeromexico jet and a private plane over Cerritos, California.

Previously, she was an anchor and reporter for WNEV-TV (now WHDH-TV), then the CBS affiliate in Boston (1983-1985). Zahn was an anchor and reporter for KPRC-TV Houston (1981-1983). In 1982, she received a National Commission on Working Women Broadcasting award and a Newscaster of the Year award from the American Women in Radio and Television (1983). She was also an anchor and reporter at CBS affiliate KFMB-TV San Diego (1979-1981). While there, she received an Emmy award for investigative reporting.

Zahn was awarded a 1994 Emmy for Outstanding Coverage of a Continuing News Story for her reporting on the mainstreaming of the mentally handicapped, and an AWRT commendation award for her series of reports on gender bias in education. She began her career at WFAA-TV Dallas in 1978 after working in various off-air assignments at WBBM-TV, the CBS-owned television station in Chicago, during the summers of 1975-1977.

Zahn was named one of the 1992 National Mothers of the Year by the National Mother's Day Committee. In May of that year, she made her Carnegie Hall debut, performing on the cello with the New York Pops orchestra. In 1993, she received an Albert Einstein College of Medicine Spirit of Achievement award. In September 1994, Zahn was presented the Second Annual Cancer Awareness award by the Congressional Families Action for Cancer Awareness.

In May 1995, Zahn received a citation for her contributions to the battle against breast cancer by New York's Beth Israel Medical Center. In June 1997, she was presented with the Achievement Award from the College Golf Foundation, an honor recognizing the career accomplishments of individuals who played collegiate golf.

Zahn was born on February 24, 1956 in Omaha, Nebraska. She received a BA in journalism from Stephens College in Columbia, Missouri, which she attended on a cello scholarship.