Emily Frances

Emily Frances is the Emmy Award-winning),cite news |url=http://cw11.trb.com/news/local/morningnews/wpix-ambios03-emilyfrances,0,6991025.htmlstory |title=Emily Frances |accessdate=2007-08-14] Entertainment Anchor for "The CW11 Morning News," the weekday news program seen on Tribune Broadcasting's CW Television Network Affiliate, WPIX Channel 11 (The CW11).

Early life

Born 1970 Growing up in Malibu, California, Emily Frances always wanted to be a news reporter and had a strong passion for travel. In her teens, Emily interned in the news department of KABC-TV while in high school. Emily, who is fluent in Spanish and French, lived in Ecuador and France as part of a foreign exchange program. She spent her junior year of college abroad in Spain, and while living in Madrid, Emily worked at the local television station Canal Plus, combining her interest in travel, with her enthusiasm for journalism.

Career

After graduating "cum laude" from the University of Pennsylvania with a degree in Communications and a minor in Marketing from the Wharton School of Business, Emily joined the staff at CNN in Atlanta, Georgia as a production assistant. While at CNN, she also covered the Republican National Convention and did Spanish translations for its International Assignment Desk.

Emily spent almost 2 years at CNN before moving back to Los Angeles to join Univision's KMEX-TV, a Spanish-language TV station, an assignment editor and producer. At age 23, Emily won an Associated Press Award for producing a 5-part series on immigration and the Mexican border for KMEX-TV. Emily was also nominated for an Emmy Award for this series. After leaving Univision, Emily joined "Extra -- The Entertainment Magazine" as a producer, where she helped to launch the syndicated program. The following year she joined "A Current Affair," a syndicated news magazine, where she produced feature stories and a daily entertainment news segment for Anchor Nancy O'Dell.

At this point, Emily had applied to business school and was accepted to Columbia University's MBA program, but decided to defer her admission to pursue her dream of obtaining a position in front of the camera. Emily then landed a job at KVBC-TV the NBC station in Las Vegas, where she was hired as an on-air reporter. While at KVBC, Emily felt that she knew for certain that reporting news was the right career for her when she did her first breaking news report covering the Las Vegas shooting death of rapper Tupac Shakur.

Later that year she relocated to Tucson, Arizona, as a lead reporter at KOLD-TV the CBS station, where she continued her Spanish skills, covering Border Stories in Nogales, Mexico. In 1999, Emily moved across the country to New York, the number one market, to join WCBS-TV Channel 2.

Frances left WCBS-TV in 2001 to join the CW11 Morning News as a reporter, and by 2002, Emily was named the Entertainment Anchor for the CW11 Morning News. Emily can be seen each weekday morning anchoring 6 -10 entertainment segments including live on-set interviews with celebrities and musicians, red carpet premieres, junket interviews, and live feature segments. Each February, she can also be seen hosting a national, live 2-hour Oscar red carpet show, "Live From the Academy Awards" which won a Telly Award in 2004. She also hosted the two-hour "Visual Effects Society Awards."

While at CW11, some of her favorite interviews have been conducted with George Clooney, Will Smith, Hugh Jackman and Halle Berry. Her most memorable interview was with Will Smith when he invited her to rap his hit song "Welcome to Miami" on-air.

In 2004 Emily won an Emmy Award for Best On-Camera Achievement: Entertainment Reporting. That same year, Emily was also nominated for an Emmy Award for Entertainment Producing and Hosting. In 2005, the "The CW11 Morning News" team was awarded and Emmy Award for Best Morning News Program.

In addition to her on-air reporting, Emily has appeared in feature films and television. She has starred as a Reporter opposite Ralph Fiennes and Jennifer Lopez in "Maid in Manhattan". She also played a reporter in the movies "Searching for Bobby D" and "The Narrow Gate." In addition, she has appeared in the role of entertainment reporter on the July 25 2006 episode of ABC-TV's soap opera "All My Children" (during the opening of the fictional nightclub ConFusion) portraying herself, and herself on the show "Maury".

Personal life

Emily is an expert skier and an avid scuba diver and tennis player. She regularly plays in softball leagues around the city, goes sky diving, and also loves running, completing her first marathon in 1996. And she recently tested gravity and went skydiving.

Passionate about charity, Emily is on the Board of “Spirituality for Kids (SFK) and teaches a curriculum to at-risk teens on probation and in Riker’s Island jail as part of “Spirituality for Teens. This spring, she will continue her work with young people, when the Urban Zen Initiative (founded by Donna Karan) partners with Spirituality for Kids to assist in SFK’s global launch campaign to establish an educational curriculum to empower children around the world and build self-esteem.

Emily is also involved in actress Fran Drescher’s “Cancer Schmancer Organization,” which is committed to passing legislation and raising awareness of the importance of diagnosing women’s cancers in Stage 1 when it is most curable.Emily has also done work for the City of Hope Cancer Research Center to raise awareness and funds for the prevention and cure of cancer.

Emily regularly works with the City of Hope Cancer Research Center to raise awareness and funds for the prevention and cure of cancer and other life-threatening diseases.

List of awards

National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (NATAS)Emmy Awards 2005: Best Morning News Program "The CW11 Morning News" 2004: Best On-Camera Achievement: Entertainment Reporting

TELLY AWARDS 2004 Telly Award-"Live from the Academy Awards"

Los Angeles Associated Press Broadcasters Award 1994 Best Investigative Mini Documentary (KMEX-TV).

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