Journalist
Kitty Pilgrim worked as New York-based anchor and correspondent for CNN for 24 years. Her travels have taken her on special assignments to Russia, Cuba, China, Japan, South Korea, Europe, and parts of Africa. In domestic reporting she covered economics, politics, and a range of other topics. She was part of the CNN team that broadcast continuously in New York during the September 11 attacks and in the weeks thereafter.
Kitty Pilgrim was a New York-based anchor and correspondent for CNN beginning with CNN in 1986 as a production assistant, and was named correspondent shortly thereafter. Pilgrim anchored her own broadcast, Early Edition, in 1998 and 1999 and served as an anchor for CNN, CNNI, CNNfn, and Headline News for more than a decade. Starting in 2001, Pilgrim served as prime-time back-up anchor for Lou Dobbs during the broadcast of the financial news program Moneyline and, until 2009, Lou Dobbs Tonight.
Pilgrim also served as a correspondent for CNN's Southeast Bureau and was the lead correspondent in CNN's coverage of the Birmingham, Alabama anti-abortion violence in 1998 and the subsequent hunt for suspect Eric Rudolph. She was also part of the CNN Moneyline team that won an Overseas Press Club Award for its live broadcasts from Havana, Cuba, in 1995. Pilgrim has won many other awards in the television industry, including an Emmy, Peabody, Dupont, and the New York Society of Black Journalists Award for field reporting on social and economic issues in South Africa.
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