Margaret Brennan Joining CBS News

By Chris Ariens 

Margaret Brennan, the former Bloomberg TV anchor is joining CBS News, TVNewser has learned. Brennan will be a correspondent principally assigned to the State Department but will also serve as a general assignment reporter in Washington, DC.

Brennan spent the last three years at Bloomberg where she anchored a daily business program. She joined Bloomberg from CNBC where she’d been a correspondent since 2006.

Brennan’s move from business news to foreign affairs should not come as a surprise. As she told us in a Media Beat interview last year, Brennan expected she might one day work for the State Department. A self-described “foreign policy geek,” who minored in Arabic in college, Brennan will now be covering the department.

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Brennan joins CBS News next month.

> Official: Release after the jump…

MARGARET BRENNAN IS NAMED CORRESPONDENT FOR CBS NEWS

Margaret Brennan has been named a Correspondent for CBS News. Principally assigned to the State Department, Brennan will also serve as a general assignment correspondent based in Washington, D.C. Her appointment is effective in July.

Most recently, Brennan anchored Bloomberg Television’s “InBusiness with Margaret Brennan,” a weekday program broadcast live from the NYSE that covered the top political, economic, financial and consumer news impacting the global marketplace.

During her tenure there she broadcast live from Riyadh, Dubai, Cairo, London, Dublin, Abu Dhabi and Davos. Brennan covered top breaking news stories involving the European debt crisis, the largest insider trading case in U.S. history and the BP oil spill. She anchored live from Tahrir Square as Hosni Mubarak stepped down after 30 years in power.

Additionally, Brennan has interviewed the International Monetary Fund’s Christine Lagarde, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, investor George Soros, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, as well as Ireland’s Prime Minister and Dubai’s ruler following their respective debt crises. She also helped lead anchor coverage of Bloomberg’s Republican presidential candidate debate.

Previously, Brennan served as a general assignment correspondent at CNBC, where she reported for NBC’s “Today” and “Nightly News,” covered the retail industry, and worked with the late Louis Rukeyser.

Brennan is a Whitehead Fellow with the Foreign Policy Association, a member of the Economic Club of New York, serves on the Advisory Board of the Smurfit School of Business at the University College Dublin and the Junior Board of the Waterside School. She graduated with highest distinction from the University of Virginia, with a bachelor’s degree in foreign affairs and Middle East studies and a minor in Arabic language. As a Fulbright-Hays Scholar, she studied Arabic at Yarmouk University in Irbid, Jordan.

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