Dana Tyler

Dana Tyler co-anchors CBS 2 News at 6 p.m. as well as WLNY-TV’s (Channels 10/55) News at Nine weekdays with Chris Wragge.   She joined WCBS-TV in 1990 as weekend co-anchor and reporter.

An integral part of the news team, Tyler is proud to mark her 22nd year at CBS 2. In 2012, she was nominated for a New York Emmy Award for her report:  “Spider-Man’s Fall”. In 2011, she was honored by the Friars Club in its annual “Salute to News Veterans.” In addition to numerous New York Emmy Award nominations over the years, she received two Emmy Awards in 2010 for anchoring the Breaking News Story: “Flight 1549 Lands in the Hudson River” and for her reporting in the Health Special: “Race for the Cure”.

An integral part of the news team, Tyler is proud to mark her 21st year at CBS 2. In 2011, she was  honored by the Friars Club in its annual “Salute to News Veterans.” In addition to numerous New York Emmy Award nominations over the years, she was nominated for her report in the Health Special: “Race for the Cure”. In 2010, she received two Emmy Awards for anchoring the Breaking News Story: “Flight 1549 Lands in the Hudson River” and for her reporting in “Race for the Cure”.

In 2007, Tyler was honored in the McDonald’s annual salute to “Black Broadcast Legends” and in 2006 she received a New York Association of Black Journalists Award for her report on Broadway’s “The Color Purple”. In 2003, Tyler received Emmy Awards for anchoring the Breaking News Story: “New York City Blackout” and the Outstanding Single Newscast: “CBS 2 News at 11: City Hall Shooting.” In 1996, she received an Emmy for anchoring the Outstanding Single Newscast: “New York City Subway Firebombing”.

Tyler contributes as host and reporter for “Eye on New York”, CBS2′s half-hour weekly community affairs program. In addition to general assignment reporting, she does feature stories on tri-state area museums and Broadway theatre productions. Tyler also hosts annual specials including “CBS 2 at Tonys” and the “Tunnel to Towers Run”. She participates in CBS 2 sponsored events including “AIDS Walk New York”, the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation’s “Walk to Cure Diabetes” and the Susan G. Komen “Race for the Cure” which raises awareness about breast cancer.

Tyler is on the board of trustees of Learning Leaders, the 10,000-member volunteer organization serving New York City public school students. In 2008, she received an honorary Doctorate of Letters degree from St. John’s University at Staten Island. In 2007, she was honored with the Distinguished Alumni Award from her alma mater, Worthington High School in Ohio. In 2001, she received the Alumni Award for Distinguished Service from Boston University’s School of Management from which she graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in marketing and broadcast journalism.

Tyler began her broadcasting career as an intern at WCOL Radio and WBNS-TV in Columbus, Ohio. She was a general assignment reporter and anchor for WBNS and received an Emmy Award as Outstanding Anchor for her work on the popular “Heart of Ohio” broadcasts.

In 1990, she and the late Reggie Harris became the first African-American anchor team in New York on WCBS-TV. She is honored to celebrate her great-grandfather’s historic efforts. Ralph Waldo Tyler was a newspaper reporter and editor in Columbus and the first accredited African-American war correspondent to report on African-American soldiers stationed overseas during World War I.