Fredricka Whitfield
ABOUT FREDRICKA WHITFIELD
Reporter and news anchor for CNN who hosted the weekend daytime edition of CNN Newsroom. She was the first anchor nationally to break the news of the death of former president Ronald Reagan .
She worked as a correspondent for NBC News, based out of Atlanta, from 1995 to 2001.
She filed a story from the front lines of the Persian Gulf.
She married John Glenn. Her father was Olympian Mal Whitfield .
Wolf Blitzer was another nationally-recognized CNN correspondent.
