Last Updated on: 10th May 2025, 02:07 pm
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Maggie Rodriguez is a broadcast journalist with a diverse career spanning multiple major U.S. television networks. Born Margarita Dania Rodriguez on December 12, 1969, in Miami, Florida, she is best known for co-anchoring CBS’s The Early Show from 2007 to 2010.(CelebsAges)
Rodriguez began her TV news career at WLTV-DT, a Univision-owned station in Miami, where she worked as an associate producer, field producer, and assignment editor from 1989 to 1990. She later served as a reporter at the station from 1991 to 1994.
From 1994 to 2000, Rodriguez was a field reporter and anchor at KABC-TV in Los Angeles. She covered a wide array of stories, including earthquakes, mudslides, and the O.J. Simpson murder trial. She also anchored the midday edition of Eyewitness News and co-hosted the weekend news magazine show Eye on LA. (CBS News, Biographies)
Rodriguez returned to Miami in 2000, where she anchored the 5:00 p.m. and 11:00 p.m. newscasts at WFOR-TV, the CBS-owned station in Miami. While there, she reported on and anchored coverage of a wide range of major news events, including many hurricanes and the first anniversary of the September 11 attacks. She was first on the air with coverage of the transfer of power in Cuba from Fidel Castro to his brother, Raúl. The newscast received an RTNDA Edward R. Murrow Award for its coverage of that story.
Rodriguez joined CBS News in 2007 as a co-anchor of The Early Show, working alongside Harry Smith and Julie Chen. She also served as a substitute anchor for Katie Couric on The CBS Evening News. She remained with the network until 2010. (Tampa Bay Parenting, ArticleBio, Tampa Bay Times)
In February 2021, Rodriguez returned to television as co-host of Daytime, a lifestyle and entertainment program on Tampa NBC affiliate WFLA-TV. She had been living in Tampa for nearly four years and expressed excitement about returning to work in a city she had grown fond of. (kantzmedia.com)
She has received numerous accolades, including seven Emmy Awards and two RTNDA Edward R. Murrow Awards, recognizing her excellence in broadcast journalism.
Rodriguez graduated from the University of Miami in 1991 with a degree in broadcast journalism and Spanish. She also attended American University in Washington, D.C., before transferring to the University of Miami. (Who2)
She is married to Miguel Rodriguez and they have two children: a daughter, Daniella, born in 2005, and a son, Michael Tobin, born in 2010.