Kelly Wallace

Kelly Wallace has been a CBS News correspondent based in New York since January 2007. Her reports covering national issues are featured on the CBS Evening News with Katie Couric, The Early Show and on CBSNews.com. She also serves as a substitute anchor for the Weekend Evening News and has anchored several breaking news reports, including John McCain’s announcement of Sarah Palin as his running mate.

Before joining CBS, Wallace worked as a correspondent and anchor for CNN from 1999 to 2006. She was a national correspondent for American Morning (2004-06), where she also served as a substitute anchor. During the presidential campaign of 2004, she covered Senator John Kerry and was a floor reporter for the Democratic and Republican National Conventions. Wallace also anchored Inside Politics Sunday, the cable channel's live, one-hour political program.

Before that, she was an international correspondent for CNN (2002-03), assigned to the Middle East, from where she covered events in Israel, the West Bank and Gaza before, during and after the U.S. invasion of Iraq.

Previously, Wallace was based in Washington, D.C. and was CNN's White House correspondent (1999-2002) during the last year of the Clinton administration and the first two years of the Bush administration, which included the contested 2000 presidential election.

Before joining CNN, she was a State Department reporter/producer for FOX News Channel (1999). Wallace began her on-air career at KRQE-TV, the CBS station in Albuquerque, New Mexico (1996-98). Prior to that, she was an assignment editor for CNN, as well as an off-air reporter and producer for the cable channel's weekend political talk shows (1990-96).

Wallace was part of CNN's coverage teams which earned a 2006 George Foster Peabody Award for coverage of Hurricane Katrina and a 2006 Columbia University-Alfred I. DuPont Award for coverage of the tsunami in Southeast Asia.

In addition to her work for CBS News, Wallace serves as a contributor to PLUM, a pregnancy and parenting magazine. She’s written a cover story on Michelle Obama, a feature on the scientific benefits of the “mommy brain” and an analysis of the 2008 presidential candidates’ positions on family issues.

Wallace was born in Brooklyn. She was graduated magna cum laude from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania in 1987 with a bachelor of sciences degree in economics. She lives in New York City with her husband and two daughters.