Susan Barnett Joins CBS3 as Co-Anchor on Morning News
Posted: December 1st, 2005
Susan Barnett will join CBS 3’s Eyewitness News team (KYW-TV) in Philadelphia as morning news co-anchor, Vice President and News Director Susan Schiller has announced. Barnett, who comes to CBS 3 from sister station WFOR-TV in Miami, will debut on Eyewitness News This Morning (5-7 a.m.) with co-anchor Ukee Washington and Meteorologist Brooks Tomlin on Monday, January 2nd .Barnett has established herself as a morning news force in the industry. She co-anchored the weekday morning newscasts in Miami at WFOR and its UPN sister station WBFS since joining the station in October 2003. Previously, she was also co-anchor of the morning news at CBS-owned KDKA in Pittsburgh where she had been on staff since 1999.
“It takes a special newsperson to anchor a morning newscast,” says Schiller. “We are fortunate to have someone with Susan’s credentials and feeling for the morning pace come home to CBS 3. Together with Ukee, Brooks and traffic reporter Bob Kelly, we feel we have an outstanding team that can offer viewers all of the news, traffic and weather information they need to start their day in a pleasant way.”
“I’m thrilled to be anchoring in my hometown,” says Barnett, the youngest of six children, all of who still live in the area. “It’s always been my goal to come home; it’s what I have been working for all these years.”
Barnett began her career in television news at WDTV in Bridgeport, West Virginia, where she worked as a reporter and anchor for the 6 and 11 p.m. news. She also shot, wrote and produced a weekly education feature, "Beyond the Book." Her first shot at morning news came at WCIA-TV in Champaign, Illinois where she was a Sunday morning anchor as well as reporter. While there, she broadcast an in-depth series of reports on the drug Methamphetamine, now used in police officer training in Champaign.
Along the way, her reporting has earned her numerous awards including a Pennsylvania Associated Press Award for an in-depth series of reports on area nursing homes statewide. She also distinguished herself with her outstanding anchoring during Florida’s devastating hurricane seasons in 2004 and 2005.
A native of Bucks County, Pennsylvania, Barnett attended Harry S. Truman High School in Levittown. She graduated from the University of Delaware with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Mass Communication with a Minor in History.