Troy Roberts (journalist)

Troy Roberts (born September 9, 1962) is an American television news reporter and correspondent for 48 Hours Mystery.

Biography[]

Roberts was born on September 9, 1962 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He graduated from University of California, Berkeley, with a bachelor's degree in Political Science in 1984. Roberts currently lives in New York City.^[1]

Career[]

From 1985 to 1987, Roberts worked as a host and producer of a weekly newsmagazine show at KPIX-TV, a San Francisco-based, CBS-owned television company. From 1987 to 1990, he was a reporter for Portland-based KATU-TV. In 1990, he moved to New York to work at another CBS-owned station WCBS-TV, reporting for Channel 2's This Morning and anchoring local news segments for CBS Morning News. In 1993, he joined CBS News to co-anchor the overnight broadcast of Up to the Minute, interviewing various newsmakers and personalities. From 1995 through 1996, Roberts co-anchored CBS Morning News.^[1]

Troy Roberts was most recently an award-winning correspondent for “48 Hours” and had been in that role with CBS since 1998. Roberts has covered many national and international stories, ranging from mass shootings at a Newtown, Conn. elementary school and Aurora, Colo., Movie Theater and exclusive interviews with headliners and the infamous.

During his career, he's examined stories involving the rise in hate crimes, international adoption scams, an investigation into several destructive cults and the events of 9/11. His journey as a correspondent has taken him to reporting on the destructive aftermaths of hurricanes, earthquakes and tornadoes to lighter fare like the Royal Wedding and dog sledding in Alaska with model Lauren Hutton.

Roberts has earned an Alfred I. DuPont-Columbia Award and two Emmy awards. He was awarded his first Emmy for coverage of the 1996 Olympic Summer Games in Atlanta and the bombing that occurred during the event. In 2013, he distinguished himself with his Emmy winning report on the manhunt and capture of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects. Roberts was also part of the team coverage of the Newtown, Conn., elementary school shooting which earned CBS News a 2014 DuPont-Columbia award.

At CBS News, Roberts has worked in virtually every area and on all platforms served by the division. He served as a correspondent for the “CBS Evening News,” “CBS News Sunday Morning” and “CBS This Morning.” Roberts has been an alternate news reader for CBS This Morning and substitute anchor for the networks weekend editions of the “CBS Evening News.” He also anchored the true crime series, “Hard Evidence.”

Before that, Roberts was a reporter and anchor for WCBS-TV, the CBS-owned station in New York (1990–93), a reporter for KATU-TV Portland, Ore (1987–90), and the anchor and producer of a weekly news magazine at KPIX-TV, the CBS owned station in San Francisco (1985–87).

In 2015, Roberts created and co-executive produced the OWN network documentary, “Sag Harbor.” The program took an unprecedented look inside one of America's most exclusive and historically significant African-American beach community in New York's The Hamptons. In 2017 Roberts joined NBC Universal where he has worked as an NBC special Dateline correspondent. He is the anchor of the Oxygen series "Killer Motive."

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