Kristine Johnson
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Kristine Johnson (born June 5, 1972 at the former Clark Air Base in Angeles City, Pampanga, Philippines to a Filipino mother and an American father ) is a co-anchor at WCBS-TV in New York on the 5 and 11 p.m. newscasts with Chris Wragge. She joined the station in November, 2006 as anchor of the 12 Noon and 5PM broadcasts alongside the stations former sports director Wragge. In June, 2007, she and Wragge replaced Dana Tyler and Jim Rosenfield on the 11PM newscast, while they took on the 12 Noon newscast. She was previously an anchor of Early Today on NBC and First Look on MSNBC and was also one of the alternating news anchors on Weekend Today. She joined MSNBC in 2005. She had earlier worked as a reporter and anchor in Providence, Rhode Island for WPRI. She was the recipient of two nominations for an Emmy award as a producer. Her education was at the University of Nebraska, where she graduated with a bachelor of arts in journalism and minors in political science, history and English.
She announced on Early Today that October 20, 2006 was her last day and that she would be moving on. [1]. This was the same week that NBC Universal announced that it would cut 700 jobs. Kristine resides in New Jersey with her husband Steve, daughter Ava (born May 16, 2002), and son Burke (born March 5, 2007).
